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In information systems and the diffusion of innovations tradition, adoption is the decision by an individual or organization to accept and put a new technology, product, or practice into use. Rogers described it as the outcome of an innovation-decision process that runs from first knowledge through persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation, with adoption being the choice to make full use of the innovation as the best course available. Karahanna, Straub, and Chervany showed that the beliefs driving a potential adopter's intention differ from those that sustain use after adoption, so the moment of adoption marks a real break rather than a point on a smooth curve. The referent is a person or firm crossing from non-use to use of a specific technology, and it is not the aggregate spread of that technology through a population, which is diffusion.[1][2]
In the economics of standards and technology, adoption is the taking up of a compatibility standard, protocol, or technology by firms and users whose payoff depends on how many others adopt the same one. Farrell and Saloner modeled this as a coordination problem: because a standard is more valuable the larger its installed base, an adopter weighs not the standard's intrinsic merit but the expected choices of everyone else, so a population can lock in to an inferior standard or stall on the brink of a better one. Here adoption is governed by network effects and the installed base rather than by an adopter's perceived attributes of the innovation, and the object adopted is a shared convention whose whole value is in being shared. The referent is coordinated convergence on a common standard, distinct from one person's private decision to use a tool and from the legal or agricultural meanings entirely.[3]
In agricultural economics and rural sociology, adoption is a farmer's decision to take up a new input or practice, such as improved seed, fertilizer, or a soil conservation method, on a working farm. Feder, Just, and Zilberman surveyed the developing-country evidence and showed that this decision turns on farm size, credit, tenure, risk, and access to information rather than on temperament, and that adoption is often partial and staged, spreading over part of a holding before the whole. Knowler and Bradshaw, reviewing conservation agriculture, found no universal set of adoption drivers at all, with the significant factors differing from region to region. The referent is a land manager committing resources to a practice under uncertainty, a distinct applied literature that shares only the word with the technology, legal, and standards meanings.[4][5]
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