Abstract. This paper reports on elemental factor analyses of the innovativeness study in the Turkish manufacturing industry, drawing on a sample of 184 manufacturing firms. Factor structures are constructed in order to empirically test a framework identifying the relationships among innovativeness, performance and determinants of innovation. After several independent principal component analyse...

Purpose This study focuses on the effect of intranet-based social networking services (SNS) on the activity of the firm, in particular on the change in the number of business connections and on the time and cost-savings brought about by such SNS. Design/methodology/approach The authors hypothesize that the use of intranet-based SNS positively influences “social network productivity” defined as ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of hospitals' innovativeness on outsourcing decision-making regarding four information system (IS) functions, namely, software programs, network maintenance, hardware systems, and PC/printer maintenance. METHODS Using the 2011 roster of the Korean Hospital Association, this study selected 311 general hospitals as a study populat...

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...

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...

Location-Based Services (LBS) use positioning technology to provide individual users the capability of being constantly reachable and accessing network services while ‘on the move’. However, privacy concerns associated with the use of LBS may ultimately prevent consumers from gaining the convenience of ‘anytime anywhere’ personalized services. We examine the adoption of this emerging technology...

Mobile marketing is a kind of marketing activities through personal mobile devices. In recent years, mobile marketing is widely carried out in China. However, many enterprises which carried out mobile marketing did not achieve the desired effects. One of the reasons is that consumers' intention to participate in mobile marketing is not high. The article constructed the model of factors influenc...