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The sociological theory of diffusion is the study of the diffusion of innovations throughout social groups and organizations. The topic has seen rapid growth since the 1990s, reflecting curiosity about the process of social change and "fueled by interest in institutional arguments and in network and dynamic analysis."
The first interests with regards to policy diffusion were focused in time variation or state lottery adoption, [66] but more recently interest has shifted towards mechanisms (emulation, learning and coercion) [67] [68] or in channels of diffusion [69] where researchers find that regulatory agency creation is transmitted by country and sector ...
Human values are considered as having a profound impact on every level of social life: individual, organizational, institutional, societal, and global. [3] As such they provide valuable points of reference for understanding corporate stakeholders, such as shareholders, employees, customers, partners, etc., and catering to their needs through innovation. [4]
Social media can offer a support system for adolescent health, because it allows them to mobilize around health issues that they deem relevant. [168] For example, in a clinical study among adolescent patients undergoing obesity treatment, participants' claimed that social media allowed them to access personalized weight-loss content as well as ...
Value to innovation is an S-curve: Improving a product takes time and many iterations. The first of these iterations provide minimal value to the customer but in time the base is created and the value increases exponentially. Once the base is created then each iteration is dramatically better than the last.
Community-centered planning: This social innovation allows communities to plan and develop systems that cater solutions to their specific local needs by using their historical knowledge and other local resources. [17] Emissions trading: The Emissions Trading program was designed to address issues associated with the continuous increase in ...
Because algorithms are often considered to be neutral and unbiased, they can inaccurately project greater authority than human expertise (in part due to the psychological phenomenon of automation bias), and in some cases, reliance on algorithms can displace human responsibility for their outcomes. Bias can enter into algorithmic systems as a ...
In social exchange, self-interest is not a negative thing; rather, when self-interest is recognized, it will act as the guiding force of interpersonal relationships for the advancement of both parties' self-interest"—Michael Roloff (1981) [15] Thibaut and Kelley see the mutual interdependence of persons as the central problem for the study of ...