A multi-attribute measure for innovation adoption: The context of imaging technology

Despite an extensive body of research on innovation adoption, one finds man y inconsistent and conflicting findings in the literature. This problem ste ms from the lack of a generally accepted measure of adoption. Our study dev elops a more fine-grained yet robust measure of innovation adoption, using two important attributes: radicalness and relative-advantage. These measure s are developed in the context of the hospital industry and validated in a study that examines the relationship between organizational climate and the adoption of Imaging technology innovations in 70 hospitals.