Abstract
Research on information technology (IT) innovation is concerned with identifying the factors that facilitate or hinder the adoption and diffusion of new IT-based processes or products. Most of this research has been conducted within the confines of a dominant paradigm wherein innovations are assumed to be beneficial, and organizations that have greater innovation-related needs and abilities are expected to exhibit a greater amount of innovative activity. This essay suggests that the dominant paradigm may be reaching the point of diminishing returns as a framework for supporting ground-breaking research, and urges researchers to adopt a more innovative approach to the study of IT innovation itself. Toward this end, I present seven opportunities for conducting new kinds of research that go beyond the dominant paradigm.
Recommended Citation
Fichman, Robert G.
(2004)
"Going Beyond the Dominant Paradigm for Information Technology Innovation Research: Emerging Concepts and Methods,"
Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 5(8), .
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00054
Available at:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol5/iss8/11
DOI
10.17705/1jais.00054
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