Diffusion of Innovations Theory

Diffusion of innovations theory examines how new ideas, practices, or objects are adopted by individuals and organizations (or other “units of adoption”)—a field of research important to public relations practitioners advocating change.

Beginning in the 1950s, Everett M. Rogers, the leading researcher ...

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