期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2011
卷号：8
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：In recent years, there have been an increasing number of educational technology-integration pro-jects which employ the Islands of Innovation model. According to this model, technological in-novation is implemented in small islands within an organization, in the hope that they will be imi-tated, permeate the whole organization with their values and lead to overall, comprehensive inno-vation and to a new organizational culture.
Islands of innovation are created through two main mechanisms: top-down management deci-sions or bottom-up, spontaneous local initiatives taken by enthusiasts within the organization. Studies on technological innovation implementation in education systems show that for the most part, islands of innovation fail to generate overall, comprehensive innovation. This article uses three prominent organizational theories - Institutional Theory, Loosely Coupled System The-ory and Disruptive Technology Theory – to analyze the primary reasons for these failures. It stresses the buffering effect as an isolating mechanism, detaching the islands of innovation from the organization as a whole, and sees it as the main cause of failure in innovation implementation. The article warns against the stagnation that these islands of innovation may cause organization managements, which use them as an excuse to consider themselves innovative, and warns against unsupervised, poorly thought-out use of this model for technological innovation implementation.
关键词：islands of innovation, technological innovation, technology integration, institutional theory, loosely coupled system theory, disruptive technology theory.
