To study the adoption of technological innovations in general, Tornatzky and Fleischer (1990) developed the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework to describe the organizational components that affect the firm’s adoption decisions. Tornatzky and Fleischer’s (1990) TOE framework asserts that three principle contexts – technological, organizational, and environmental – influence the process by which an organization adopts and accepts a new technology. The technological context considers the available technologies important to the firm, both internal and external, that might be useful in improving organizational productivity. The organizational context is defined in terms of resources available to support the acceptance of the innovation. These criteria include firm size and scope; the centralization, formalization, interconnectedness, and complexity of the managerial structure; and the quality and availability of the firm’s human resources. The environmental context represents the setting in which the firm conducts business, and influenced by the industry itself, its competitors, the firm’s ability to access resources supplied by others, and interactions with the government.