Implementation and the Process of Adopting Managerial Technology

Recent research and continued experience in practice has highlighted the fact that much of our difficulty in achieving implementation of management science is due to the complexity of the problem. Complexity is not a simple matter of the number of issues subsumed under one label; rather, complexity is a function of a lack of structure for systematically thinking about a problem. The purpose of this paper is to present such a structure, that is a paradigm of the process of adopting managerial technology which has been adapted from recent work on the diffusion of technological innovations.