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Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Elements of Diffusion -- Water Boiling in a Peruvian Village: Diffusion That Failed -- What is Diffusion? -- Controlling Scurvy in the British Navy -- Nondiffusion of the Dvorak Keyboard -- Four Main Elements in the Diffusion of Innovations -- 1. The Innovation -- 2. Communication Channels -- 3. Time -- 4. A Social System -- Diffusion of Hybrid Corn in Iowa -- Summary -- Chapter 2: A History of Diffusion Research -- The Beginnings of Diffusion Research in Europe -- Gabriel Tarde and Imitation -- Georg Simmel's Stranger -- The British and German-Austrian Diffusionists -- The Rise of Diffusion Research Traditions -- Paradigms and Invisible Colleges -- The Anthropology Research Tradition -- Miracle Rice in Bali: the Goddess and the Computer -- Early Sociology -- Rural Sociology -- The Diffusion of Modern Math in Pittsburgh -- Worldwide Diffusion of the Kindergarten -- Public Health and Medical Sociology -- The Columbia University Drug Diffusion Study -- The Taichung Field Experiment -- STOP AIDS in San Francisco -- Communication -- Diffusion of News of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks -- Marketing -- Opinion Leaders and Mavens in the Diffusion of Electric Cars -- Geography -- General Sociology -- Networks in Recruitment to Freedom Summer -- Trends by Diffusion Research Traditions -- A Typology of Diffusion Research -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Contributions and Criticisms of Diffusion Research -- The Status of Diffusion Research Today -- Criticisms of Diffusion Research -- The Pro-Innovation Bias of Diffusion Research -- Pure Drinking Water in Egyptian Villages -- Preference for Sons in India and China -- The Individual-Blame Bias in Diffusion Research -- The Recall Problem in Diffusion Research -- The Issue of Equality in the Diffusion of Innovations -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Generation of Innovations.

The privatization of government services tends to bring about a more rapid adoption of innovative policies due to the competitive pressures of the market. In federal systems, however, the diffusion of innovations across subnational governments may offset such benefits of privatization. In this study, we test whether county governments that have privatized their provision of foster care services are more or less likely to adopt policy innovations and more or less likely to learn from the policies of other counties than are those that have resisted privatization. We explore the diffusion of four innovative foster care policies across 384 counties in five states between 1995 and 2006. We find that the initial innovativeness arising from the market competition of privatization is counterbalanced by learning across public diffusion networks. Adapted from the source document.

Dr. Kerry Patterson, an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Management at Brigham Young University, takes an unusual view of organization development (OD) success: He examines successes in OD acceptance and adoption that became uncon trollable and led to overall negative consequences. Patterson's basic frame of reference is an area known by labels such as "D of I" (diffusion of innovation), "knowledge transfer," and "KD & D" (knowledge dissemi nation and diffusion). One of the primary international scholars in this field, Dr. Ronald Havelock, head of American University's Knowledge Transfer Institute in Washington, D.C., reacts to Patterson's presentation.

Diffusion, or the widespread adoption of innovations, is a critical yet under-researched topic. There is a wide gap between development and successful adoption of an innovation. Therefore, a better understanding of why and how an innovation is adopted can help develop realistic management and business plans. Most books on this topic use a single-discipline approach to explain the diffusion of innovations. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary and managerial process approach to understanding and promoting the adoption of innovations, based on the latest research and practice. It will be of interest to graduates and researchers in marketing, product development and innovation courses.

This article discusses how innovations gave diffused over time in the municipal administration in Finland. This is done by presenting first a theoretical frame of reference and then empirical data over eight policy‐innovations in Finnish cities and 39 rural communes. The results show that more research is needed before diffusion of innovations in the municipal administration can be more completely understood.