The sustained upgrade of information systems provides most users with more comprehensive functions that make an individual’s everyday tasks simpler and easier. This study investigated the moderating effect of an individual’s personal innovativeness (PI) on the relationship within a core attitudinal model to Windows 7 and Office 2010. A total of 812 usable subjects, coming from two phases of fie...

In many IT studies, the system’s perceived usefulness and ease of use have emerged as important factors influencing the usage of information technologies. A similar amount of work has been directed to investigating their determinants, such as organizational factors, environmental factors, demographic factors, etc., but very often overlooked are the unique traits of users or user groups. The cur...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Market exploration Market exploitation Customer need tacitness New product innovativeness New product development speed New product financial performance This paper examines three different ways to balance market exploration and market exploitation in product innovation. First, following the knowledge-based view, we examine whether market exploration and market e...

Due to the recent movements related to the focus of core competence and as a result of a tendency toward global profit squeezing, the innovativeness of the supply chain play a key role in influencing a firm’s competitive advantage. Enterprises keep good relationships with their suppliers and customers in the hope that the supply chain system can operate effectively. This means that firms have b...

This study examined the effect of agriculture faculty training in and practice of methodologies to explicitly teach critical thinking skills related to course content and subsequent change in student critical thinking disposition. Twelve instructors in 14 agriculture courses underwent a year–long program of instruction in effective critical thinking development. Students completed the Universit...

This study, using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework, investigated the effect of internal and external cognitive innovativeness on attitudes, beliefs and behavioral intentions related to intent to experience an online technology delivered course. Results indicated that respondents who scored high in levels of cognitive innovativeness had more positive attitudes toward taking an onlin...

Extensive research has shown that organizational attributes affect product innovation. Extending this literature, this article delimits two general categories of organizational attributes and relates them to product innovation. Organizational attributes can be either control oriented or flexibility oriented. Control-oriented organizational attributes strive to realize organizational activities ...

This paper addresses the issue of technogenesis and its geographical pattern. It aims to offer both a general framework and test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is built mainly on the product life-cycle and the incubation approach. Further, it is argued that the phases of an industrial life-cycle have several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence i...