Technology entrepreneurship is more than one might think

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2024.100512
E. Burton Swanson
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Technology entrepreneurship, by which we mean entrepreneurship on behalf of a new technology and its organizational and social acquisition, is more than one might think, given present use of the term, which focuses on technology as device. Here, taking the perspective of technology as routine capability, we reframe the concept to incorporate not only distributed agency involved around devices, but also distributed agency concerned with use through associated routines. We argue that technology acquisition in the form of capabilities concerns use and that technology entrepreneurship typically entails substantial institutional work in the promotion of adoption and use. We illustrate this in the case of the long and painful history of the acquisition of electronic health records (EHR). Our reframing leads to new insights. Among these is the identification of what we term path convergence and its importance in the social acquisition of a technology. We argue that technology entrepreneurs must attend to this path convergence, or the technology may not be widely taken up.

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科技创业精神超乎想象
技术创业,我们指的是代表新技术及其组织和社会获取的创业精神,鉴于目前对该术语的使用侧重于作为设备的技术,其含义可能超出人们的想象。在这里,我们从技术作为常规能力的角度出发,重新构建了这一概念,不仅纳入了围绕设备的分布式代理,还纳入了通过相关常规使用技术的分布式代理。我们认为,以能力为形式的技术获取与使用有关,而技术创业通常需要大量的机构工作来促进采用和使用。我们以电子病历(EHR)漫长而痛苦的获取历史为例加以说明。我们的重构带来了新的启示。其中包括我们所称的路径融合及其在社会获取技术过程中的重要性。我们认为,技术企业家必须关注这种路径趋同,否则技术可能不会被广泛采用。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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