Our research is not without limitat

Our research is not without limitations. Data collected in this study are mainly secondary
therefore future research should apply a number of methodologies, such as case studies,
surveys, simulations or mathematical models to further investigate ICT developments and
deployments in multimodal practice in terms of motives, barriers, costs and benefits. For
instance, academics such as Cegielski et al. (2012) have started to employ interviews to
collect primary data in order to investigate further the applications of cloud computing.
Indeed, collecting primary data is a major piece of research on its own to investigate the
impact of recent ICT developments in reducing barriers for deployment. Our rating scale
about the impact of certain ICT developments in reducing barriers for deployment is rather
simplistic due to the early developments of technological trends that we discuss in our paper.
Nevertheless, this analysis is valid where we match current and predicted features of
technological trends to barriers to ICT adoption through published articles on ICT
developments and exemplar practices in the field.
For future research, a more rigorous approach should be explored where existing IS theories,
such as the diffusion of innovation (Rogers 1995), the organisational processing theory
(Galbraith 1974), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the extended TAM (Davis,
1989), technology-organisation-environment (TOE) framework (Tornatzky and Fleischer,
1990) could be deployed to analyse the relationship between barriers/drivers and the adoption
of technological trends within a multimodal setting, linking the theory on the barriers to
innovation. In addition, the development of new IS theories could further contribute to future
research.