-facility adoption; i.e., positive imitation parameters manifest due to the presence of mimicry and contagion. We instead argue that the …Operations management scholarship has focused on reference-group adoption positively influencing focal …-management adoption. We compile a dataset of 2,895 facility-level observations that allows for three different industry-level reference …

producers and others representing very few, if any. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC …Retailer initiated food quality standards are important elements to market food and agricultural products. However … are applied to quantify the determinants of standards' spread at an aggregated level. The results of the econometric …

producers and others representing very few, if any. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC …Retailer initiated food quality standards are important elements to market food and agricultural products. However … are applied to quantify the determinants of standards’ spread at an aggregated level. The results of the econometric …

The purpose of the Adoption Guide and the Framework is to enable agencies and their professional workers to perform …-making should encompass: if adoption is in the best interests of a particular child and if the applicants should be approved to …

influences that seem to be driving and constraining the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and XML/Web Services and … the adoption of other innovations in organisations. The key drivers were found to include improved agility, reuse and … [open standards enabled] interoperability. None of these map easily to factors identified in previous Diffusion of …

farmers in developing countries. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC Technical Food …Privately initiated food quality standards are currently important elements in the marketing of food and agricultural …

development and adoption of systems based on these standards are quite challenging. This is due to diverging and conflicting … are often diverging and even conflicting with that of the supranational government. While standards are essential for the … development and implementation of IOS, in a supranational context the processes of agreeing on standards as well as the subsequent …