a model of the impact corporate culture on information technology adoption kofi poku ph d candidate richard p vlosky professor forest products marketing program school renewable natural resources louisiana state university agricultural center baton rouge working paper 57 laboratory la december 2 2002 introduction industry is often characterized as being reactive rather than proactive when it comes to implementing inter organizational ios technologies generally lags in relative most other industries this supported by who finds lagging adopting such universal product code upc bar coding for inventory management electronic data interchange and internet westbrook addition recent from department commerce show pulp sector ranked 14th with regard percent transactions conducted using solid wood dead last anonymous late adopter beha vior has been attributed number reasons including s history complacency emanating concept timber primacy