Organizational learning, diffusion of innovation, and international collaboration in telemedicine.
The authors analyze competing forces affecting the diffusion of telemedicine practices across organizations, potential learning effects from telemedicine practice, and their implications for the development of telemedicine-based networks. They also speculate on the learning, diffusion, and institutional effects that telemedical collaboration may trigger; five sets of propositions are advanced to explain these effects.
Robinson
David F
DF
Texas Tech University, Area of Management, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
Savage
Grant T
GT
Campbell
Kim Sydow
KS
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004465:Economic Competition; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007858:Learning; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*