Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2004
Abstract
The adoption, subsequent deployment, and use of new technology, is a topic of great interest to scholars and practitioners alike. Research to date has done much to identify and understand factors that influence technology adoption decisions of end users (Morris, 2001; Roberts & Henderson, 2000). But much less has been done to distinguish and account for the factors that influence the adoption decisions and the behaviors of managers. This paper seeks to bring managers, in the guise of trial court judges, to the forefront and identify those factors and characterize their technology adoption behaviors. The research identifies five direct influences and several indirect ones on trial court judges' decisions to adopt a new case management system. All but one of them are consistent with end-user-based models of technology adoption. It also describes technology adoption behaviors of managers. These are consistent with theories about the diffusion of innovation and organizational economics. The end-user-based and diffusion of innovation models and the ideas of organizational economics as they pertain to the behavior of managers appear to be complimentary and work together to help explain how trial court judges adopt new technology.
Keywords
business ethics, managers, trial court judges, organizational economics, technology adoption, diffusion of technology
Rights
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Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Hill, James L., "Investigating Factors That Influence Trial Court Judges' Adoption of Technology" (2004). Student Scholarship. 264.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/264