TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFUSION AND ADOPTION OF INNOVATION IN THE
AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Page 1 TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE …

The UK Construction Industry has been criticized for being slow to change and adopt
innovations. The idiosyncrasies of participants, their roles in a social system and the …

The themes of awareness and influence within the innovation diffusion process are
addressed. The innovation diffusion process is typically represented as stages, yet …

A survey of 335 businesses in the Australian road industry has been carried out to ascertain
those factors that make firms innovate.'Innovative'is measured by adoption rates of …

Purpose This study aims to examine how innovation can be accelerated within the New
Zealand (NZ) building industry to improve the productivity and efficiency of the industry …

While construction is often seen as a low‐technology sector, it has witnessed substantial
changes in practices, processes, technology and performance over the past 20 years …

The UK construction industry is an important aspect of the UK economy; however, it is
struggling to keep pace with wider economic growth and if it does not change it will not be …

The dominant economic paradigm currently guiding industry policy making in Australia and
much of the rest of the world is the neoclassical approach. Although neoclassical theories …

Purpose–Through investigating the innovation‐adoption process in smaller construction
industry firms, this paper aims to ascertain the drivers of innovation in Australian small …

This paper examines 'imitative'innovation, which involves the adoption of innovations that
are new to a particular business, rather than new to the world. The paper is based on a …