School Management Software in Australia and the Issue of Technological Adoption

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Author(s): Bill Davey (RMIT University, Australia)and Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 17
Source title: Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6126-4.ch010

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Approaches to innovation adoption often fail to explain why similar technologies in a single environment can have very different adoption outcomes. In this chapter, the single environment of education management systems in one country (Australia) are used to show how outcomes of similar technologies can be very different. An Actor-Network approach is used to explain how some technologies succeeded and others failed. Understandings reached in this case illuminate the power of the approach that includes listening to the technological actors in addition to the human. The chapter identifies actors and interactions and shows the connection between those interactions and the final outcomes of the innovations.

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