Toward a Theoretical Model of Cyberinfrastructure Adoption and Implementation In Enabling Inter-Organizational and Geographically Distributed Collaboration in e-Science

• In Event: Modeling, Theorizing, and Criticizing Communication Technology

Abstract

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) refers to a collection of distributed information, communication, and computer technologies (Atkins et al., 2003). Despite the trend toward integrated technologies, traditional technology adoption research often focuses on studying a single technology in isolation. The concept of cyberinfrastructure expands adoption research from looking at a single technology to consider multiple technologies by users. By taking a technologies-in-practice perspective and a combinatorial perspective, the author proposes seven predictors of cyberinfrastructure adoption and implementation.

Author

• Kerk Kee, University of Texas, Austin