Organizational conservative tradition is one of the major obstructions for information system designers to proceed information initiatives.
There are two types of conservative factors - those of organization management, that is, buraucracy, and those of members.
Conservative factors at organization management (buraucracy)
Organizational conservative tradition may be expressed as "low risk", "in a row", "conformity to rules" - to sum up "safety first".
In bureaucracy, they are inclined to keep current way of doing things, keep doing what every else does, for the sake of safety.
Thus, for example, security policy or resource-saving policy they are willing to make tends to conflict with challenging initiatives in organization.
They prefer their own job being certainly end up to kindly considering staff's capacity/schedule. Thus, they force fellow staff to incessantly make cumbersome documents.
Conservative factors at organization members.
Information-shift forces organization staff to become cooperative. If they are inclined to do as before, they are meant conservative obstruction. Being uncooperative includes : escaping from role taking (especially, role of leading members), indifference in (thinking little of) rules/formats/manners to obey, escaping from self training/skill-up, relying on other people for support/help, and so on.
So the issue in this case is evoking incentive.
People is glad to accept responsibility if they believe/find it would benefit them. They take control of managing information on their own if they understand it brings cost/time/labor-saving. And in the case of university, most staff have incentive to work with the information system because working on information is of their working style.