James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Jeffrey G. Cox is a research associate in the Department of ...

Innovation is the hottest word in health care. Yet in a sprawling $3 trillion sector, the positive consequences of innovation are realized only if what one entity learns spreads from the innovator to ...

Innovation is management. For those of us that want to create a lasting innovation culture in our companies, understanding this principle is vital to success. There may be plenty of myth making around ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The inadequacy of our present conceptualization of the part played by channels of communication in the diffusion of innovations is explored.

The study of policy diffusion examines how innovative policy ideas spread among governments, revealing the mechanisms by which states influence one another in the adoption and adaptation of effective ...