According to the literature, the two key factors that govern consumers’ adoption of innovative products are perceived product attributes and consumer traits. An IT product, iPad, is considered in a case study of how consumer innovativeness and new product attributes affect consumers’ intentions to adopt. The investigation also discusses the effect of consumer innovativeness on the relationship ...

This study provides an empirical test of the relationship between Temporal Orientation (including Past-, Present-, and Future-Orientation) and the personal hedonist dimension of Consumer Innovativeness in the case of the purchase of a durable good. The review of the literature on the concepts of Temporal Orientation and purchase Innovativeness leads to the three following hypotheses: purchase I...

In our previous two installments on innovativeness we provided overviews of how forest industry managers define “innovative” companies and what they see as primary hurdles to innovativeness. Here we cover the remaining findings regarding how managers might measure innovativeness and what they do to proactively increase innovativeness within their firms. Findings in this area may be particularly...

How do the American states vary in their propensity for innovativeness, or their willingness to adopt new policies sooner or later relative to other states? Most studies today use event history analysis to focus almost exclusively on one policy area at a time at the expense of a broader understanding of innovativeness as a characteristic of states. To return to the concept of innovativeness mor...

The complete model included Innovativeness as the strategic orientation of the firm, firm size, industry, and business strategy (See Figure 2). For a complete description of all the variables measured in this study the reader is referred to an earlier research brief. Results The anticipated relationships were supported by our analyses. Business strategy was not found to impact the relationship ...

This study explores the link between financial performance and the formal strategic planning process, planning flexibility, and innovativeness of 448 firms in a multi-industry sample. The results suggest that firms’ formal strategic planning processes and planning flexibility are positively associated, and each is positively related to innovativeness. In addition, innovativeness fully mediates ...

The focus of this study is on lecturer’s use of online technology in the higher education context. Precisely, this study aims to understand the effect of personal innovativeness in IT (PI) in determining technology adoption behavior of lecturers in the higher education institutes in Sri Lanka. In this study, the variable of personal innovativeness in IT is integrated with the UTAUT framework an...

Innovativeness, determining the development potential of enterprises and economies, and hence the economic welfare of societies, became an important area of interest for both theoreticians and especially economic life practitioners. Thus, in this study of the subject there can be found numerous definitions and types of innovation, including environmental innovation, being a response to the dema...

Innovativeness is a willingness to try new things. Combined with other factors, innovativeness leads consumers to be among the first to adopt new ideas, products, and practices, such as buying online. As an individual difference trait, innovativeness can be conceptualized at three levels of generality: a global personality trait, general marketplace innovativeness, and domain-specific innovativ...

What determines an American state’s propensity for innovativeness, or their willingness to adopt new policies sooner or later relative to other states? Most studies focus almost exclusively on one policy area at a time at the expense of a broader understanding of innovativeness as a characteristic of states. Our study therefore departs from this tradition by simultaneously studying policy innov...