As mobile payment is rapidly introduced and popularized around the world, user intention is of vital importance to service providers to win customers for such new technology. Our research focuses on understanding the role of individual perception on the relationship between individual innovativeness and user intention. In our paper individual perception includes three aspects: perceived usefuln...

nnovativeness nowledge heterogeneity etwork structure Structural holes theory suggests a variety of possible explanations for the empirically observed relationship between structural holes and individual managerial performance. However, little has been done to disentangle onemechanism fromanother. This paper empirically tests amediatedmoderationmodel that distinguishes between the five differen...

Though there is a clear correlation between profitability and innovativeness, the steps that lead to designing a "creative" product are elusive. In order to learn from past design successes, the impact of design choices on the innovativeness of an entire product must be identified. This problem of quantifying the impact of design choices on a final product is analogous to the problem of 'credit...

The presence of digital infrastructures fundamentally changes market conditions, business and IT strategy, and consequently organizational structures. This research investigates how the concept of a digital business strategy leads to increased organizational innovativeness and firm performance. We demonstrate how IT capabilities contribute to organizational innovativeness and induce the CIO’s p...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate whether knowledge management (KM) contributes to the development of strategic orientation and to enhance innovativeness, and whether these three factors contribute to improve business performance. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 241 Brazilian companies was surveyed, using Web-based questionnaires with 54 questions, using ten-point scal...

Leveraging intellectual capital has become imperative to facilitate individuals’ innovativeness. However, little is known about the process of knowledge nurturing reflexivity where newborn ideas and newfound knowledge, which may be incomplete or ineffective in their infancy, are further developed instead of being criticized or discarded. Without proper nurturing, they may be abandoned premature...

Since Thorstein Veblen, perennial themes in institutionalist writings have included the role of imitation (or emulation) and the tension between inertia (or conservatism) and innovation in individual and organizational behavior. Prior models of organizational behavior have examined two search processes that represent this tension. One is local search, in which an organization restricts experime...

Fostering greater firm innovativeness may just be the most critical advantage organisations must develop to effectively compete in the markets of not only today, but those of tomorrow as well. The connection between volatile and dynamic environments and the need for firms to be more innovative is oft made, and Japan in particular has faced trying conditions, experiencing perhaps the most prolon...

While the information technologies provide organizational members with explicit concepts, such as writing instruction manuals, the ‘organizational memory’ provides individuals with tacit knowledge, such as systematic sets, routines and shared visions. This means that individuals within an organization learn by using both the organizational memory and the information technologies. They interact ...

How can we identify whether innovation processes in an organization, a region or a sector are stagnating? Moreover, how can we assess the degree of innovation stagnation? These are issues at the core of the management of innovation literature,and the challenge of how to answer these questions in real time remains a problem yet to be solved, particularly in cases where innovation is highly expec...