The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independent of their national identity, and therefore to be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. However, research in intercultural marketing has shown that cultural norms and values have vary...

Because it is difficult and costly for firms to practice exploration and exploitation simultaneously in their new product development, managers need to know when investing in ambidexterity is beneficial for their firm’s innovativeness and when it is not. To date, research has remained undecided about the performance implications of striving for the joint implementation of exploration and exploi...

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how the successors of family-owned manufacturing SMEs view and manage innovativeness. Research into company take-overs mainly focuses on large companies and little is known about innovativeness in research on familyowned businesses, often SMEs. This paper presents findings from ten company successions, five of which describe family successio...

In this study, we draw upon literature in technology and innovation management to theorise about how process improvement efforts in organisations can drive the exploratory activity that is generally associated with more radical forms of innovation. We develop a set of propositions on how process improvement efforts might directly and indirectly drive exploration and more radical forms of organi...

The main objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive and integrated model of innovation at the firm level and to discuss the effects of firm characteristics on the innovativeness capabilities of companies. The results are based on an empirical survey covering 184 manufacturing firms in the Northern Marmara region within Turkey. In this study, first an integrated model of innovativenes...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how consumers’ value evaluation and personality factors influence consumers’ intention to adopt mobile coupon (M-coupon) applications in China. The moderating effect of gender on the relationships between personality factors and consumers’ adoption intention is also tested. Design/methodology/approach – This study conducted a survey to collect d...

Diffusion of innovations is a theory that describes the spread of new things through social systems as they are adopted or rejected by individuals. Innovativeness refers to interindividual differences in how people react to these new things and accounts for much of their success or failure. Innovators may welcome them; the majority may gradually adopt them; laggards either slowly or never adopt...

There is a rapidly growing body of literature on mobile video calling, which is a promising communication technology; however, little research has focused on user acceptance of mobile video calling, especially in different use contexts. This study explored factors (especially perceived enjoyment) influencing the intention of users to employ video calling in different contexts (a work and a leis...

More and more firms are adopting Web 2.0 technologies for different purposes. Despite some studies about the impact on different aspects of the organization of these technologies, few studies have empirically tested their effects. This study confirms that the there is a positive relationship between Web 2.0 adoption and Innovativeness and between Innovativeness and Business Performance. We can ...