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The environmental context of the technology-organization-environment framework, in which the state appears as the regulatory environment: the extent to which government policy and regulation facilitate or hinder a firm's assimilation of a technology. Zhu, Kraemer, and Xu, in The process of innovation assimilation by firms in different countries, placed regulatory environment alongside competition intensity as one of two environmental antecedents of e-business assimilation, and reported that it mattered most at the routinization stage and varied sharply across the ten countries in their sample. Here the referent is a firm-level perception of the policy climate, weighed as one contextual driver among the technological and organizational ones, and measured against how far the technology is taken up and embedded.[1]
The government support and national ICT policy that shape how far a technology spreads: promotion, subsidy, and infrastructure on the enabling side, and legislation and legal barriers on the constraining side. Gibbs and Kraemer, in A cross-country investigation of the determinants of scope of e-commerce use, took an institutional approach and modelled government promotion and legislation barriers as environmental determinants of the scope of firms' e-commerce use across ten countries, finding that promotion widened scope while some legal regimes narrowed it. The referent here is the policy instrument itself, the visible action of the state through which a national e-government or ICT agenda reaches the firm, rather than an abstract pressure or a contextual score.[2]
Coercive isomorphism, the pressure that pushes organizations in a field to resemble one another because they depend on the same authorities, the strongest of which is the state and its regulation. DiMaggio and Powell, in The iron cage revisited, named coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism as the three mechanisms of institutional conformity, and made law, mandate, and regulatory oversight the archetype of the coercive kind: firms adopt a practice not because it pays but because a rule or a resource-holding authority compels it, and legitimacy follows compliance. Scott's regulative pillar carries the same idea, treating rules, monitoring, and sanction as one basis of institutional order. The referent is a force acting on the firm from outside, sought for legitimacy rather than performance.[3][4]
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