Framework
TOE-I framework
The question it answers
When a small business owner is weighing up a new technology, how do technology, organisation, environment and their own entrepreneur traits shape whether to adopt it?
- Origin
- Nazir, Roomi and Khan, 2025
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Firm

Diagram
TOE-I framework
Adoption of an innovation
Technology
Organisation
Environment
Innovation: entrepreneur characteristics
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- Nazir, M.A., Roomi, M.A. and Khan, M.R. (2025) ‘Entrepreneurial firms in the crypto era: adoption trajectories and innovation dynamics’, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 32(8), pp. 18–53.doi:10.1108/JSBED-11-2024-0580Source page