- Title
- Regional innovation and tourism networks: The nexus between ICT diffusion and change in Australia
- Creator
- Braun, Patrice
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45633
- Identifier
- vital:143
- Identifier
- ISSN:1098-3058
- Abstract
- This article reports the outcomes of a study on the nature of the change process when a regional tourism network seeks to adopt e-commerce. The study builds on Rogers' seminal work on the diffusion of innovations and makes a unique contribution to existing ICT diffusion studies by its focus on the nature of the network links and by its application of an action-oriented methodology to untangle the effects of the embedded network structure. The study suggests a strong relationship between diffusion and network positioning, both in terms of place (status and position in the network) and space (the geographic make-up of the network). Diffusion additionally hinged on network cohesion and actors' trust in and engagement with the network.; C1
- Publisher
- New York, USA Cognizant Communications Corporation
- Relation
- Information technology and Tourism Vol. 6, no. 4 (2004), p. 231-244
- Rights
- Copyright Cognizant Communications Corporation
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1506 Tourism; Tourism networks; E-commerce; Collaboration; Learning; Social capital; Trust; Change
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