Why might nations vary in whether and how fast to adopt potentially disruptive innovations? Our study investigates this issue, specifically how a nation's adoption of creatively destroying innovations is related to two previously unexplored variables: cultural looseness, which is a norm-based measure of informal institutions, and global connectedness. To highlight potential contributions from these new variables, we control for within-nation contextual variables examined in prior research, including formal institutions, Hofstede's dimensions of cultural values, socioeconomic attributes, and between-nation economic grouping. Our empirical analysis of a specific disruptive innovation, agricultural biotechnology adoption, covers 47 nations over a 14-year period and provides broad support for the usefulness of cultural looseness and global connectedness for understanding innovation adoption. Cultural looseness is significantly related to adoption of agricultural biotech. Global connectedness dimensions of depth and breadth are not directly related to adoption, only interactively with cultural looseness. These findings highlight the role of informal institutions and global connectedness in shaping complex interactions between disruptive innovation and industrial evolution within and across nations. The findings also have implications for what public policy makers might do to influence the extent of adoption of such innovations.

为什么各国在采用潜在破坏性创新的方式和速度上会有所不同？我们的研究调查了这个问题，特别是一个国家采用创造性破坏性创新的方式与以前两个尚未探索的变量之间的关系：文化松散（这是基于规范的非正式制度的衡量标准）和全球联系。为了突出这些新变量的潜在贡献，我们控制了先前研究中检验过的国际内部语境变量，包括正式机构，霍夫斯泰德的文化价值维度，社会经济属性和国际经济分组。我们对特定破坏性创新，农业生物技术采用，在14年的时间内涵盖了47个国家/地区，并广泛支持文化松散和全球联系对于理解创新采用的有效性。文化上的松动与农业生物技术的采用密切相关。深度和广度的全球连通性维度与采用没有直接关系，只是与文化上的松散互动。这些发现凸显了非正式机构和全球联系在塑造破坏性创新与国家内部和国家之间的产业发展之间的复杂相互作用中的作用。调查结果还对公共政策制定者可能采取哪些措施来影响采用此类创新的程度产生影响。深度和广度的全球连通性维度与采用没有直接关系，只是与文化上的松散互动。这些发现凸显了非正式机构和全球联系在塑造破坏性创新与国家内部和国家之间的产业发展之间的复杂相互作用中的作用。调查结果还对公共政策制定者可能采取哪些措施来影响采用此类创新的程度产生影响。深度和广度的全球连通性维度与采用没有直接关系，只是与文化上的松散互动。这些发现凸显了非正式机构和全球联系在塑造破坏性创新与国家内部和国家之间的产业发展之间的复杂相互作用中的作用。调查结果还对公共政策制定者可能采取哪些措施来影响采用此类创新的程度产生影响。