Competitive pressures, network externalities, vendor influence, and regulatory forces are all environmental factors that potentially impact an organization’s decision to adopt ICT. Emerging, and networked ICT in particular, diffuse and are adopted more rapidly when “others observe and imitate the early adopters to replicate the success or to avoid being perceived as laggards, or when they communicate with these early adopters and are persuaded, induced, or coerced to adopt” (Contractor & Eisenberg, 1990). Thus, an understanding of the institutional environment is of utmost significance.