Innovation adoption studies have never been applied to third party property management companies. These companies manage buildings for a fee as their primary business. Property management companies are influential in the adoption process for new technologies because they act as gatekeepers for technical information. This study analyzes radical and routine adoption process that are found in large, professionally operated property management companies. The process is explicated. The technical managers, and their role as technology gate keepers, are described. The distinction to the technical managers between routine and radical technology is that routine technologies do something in a new way and radical technologies do something new. Observations concerning evaluation and adoption of information technologies are described. The findings suggest methods of successfully tailoring and introducing technologies to this market.
BT - 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Efficiency and Sustainability C2 - LBNL-46376 C3 -80EE01
C4 -August 20-25, 2000
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CN - LBNL-46376 CY - Pacific Grove, CA DA - 07/2000 LA - eng N2 -Innovation adoption studies have never been applied to third party property management companies. These companies manage buildings for a fee as their primary business. Property management companies are influential in the adoption process for new technologies because they act as gatekeepers for technical information. This study analyzes radical and routine adoption process that are found in large, professionally operated property management companies. The process is explicated. The technical managers, and their role as technology gate keepers, are described. The distinction to the technical managers between routine and radical technology is that routine technologies do something in a new way and radical technologies do something new. Observations concerning evaluation and adoption of information technologies are described. The findings suggest methods of successfully tailoring and introducing technologies to this market.
PP - Pacific Grove, CA PY - 2000 T2 - 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Efficiency and Sustainability T3 - 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Efficiency and Sustainability TI - Innovation Adoption Processes for Third Party Property Management Companies ER -