The impact of organizational context on innovation adoption in commercial banks

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 14-25

  Gopalakrishnan, Shanthi ^a   Damanpour, Fariborz ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption of product and process innovation; Banking industry; Geographic scope; Magnitude of innovation; Organization context; Organization size; Product scope; Speed of innovation adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007024305     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.820722     Document Type: Article

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