Change Agent Innovativeness: Community Economic Development Directors' Attitudes toward Telecommunications
| Autor: | David J. Roelfs, Peter F. Korsching |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Community economic development
Change agent business.industry 05 social sciences 050602 political science & public administration 0211 other engineering and technologies General Social Sciences 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public relations Marketing business 0506 political science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Sociology. :67-90 |
| ISSN: | 0749-0232 |
| Popis: | This study examines the innovativeness of Iowa community economic development director change agents. Change agents such as economic development directors are employed by communities because of their expertise and assumed enthusiasm for innovation and change. Telecommunications innovations are being widely promoted in helping America's rural communities overcome some factors that historically have handicapped small and remote communities maintain economic viability. But achieving the utility of these technologies in local development is dependent upon leadership from the economic development directors to help communities acquire, implement, and fully exploit them. We hypothesize that change agents will be more innovative in using telecommunications technologies with greater exposure to information about the technologies. Findings reveal significant variation in the innovativeness of these change agents and that recent information and experience with the technologies are particularly important in their use by the economic development directors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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