Immunity to Technology Diffusion: Planned Technology and Unplanned Adaptation

Abstract

The phenomena of technology transfer and adaptation are not only compelling elements of the business environment for managerial commitment, but also the manageable fit and acceptance of the phenomena with the principal actors in the structural settings that are immune to change. Effectiveness of technology diffusion primarily depends on the process of its transfer and acceptance of the principal actors in the structural settings for its adaptation. This paper analyzes the technology planning priorities of the government of Nepal by covering the period of the last fifty years of the country's planned economy at one part and examines the organizational/structural settings for technology diffusion on the other. An extensive overview of national plan documents determines the government's planning priorities and initiatives for technology diffusion in the country. Examination of the organizational settings in the country indicates the degree of congruence between the planning priorities and arrangement for organizational settings in the enduring process of technology diffusion. An analysis of the response of opinion leaders from selected organizations involved in technology works/projects supplements to the analysis and conclusion of the study. This study concludes with an identification of unplanned organizational settings remaining as a structural immunity to the planned technology diffusion in the country.