In this paper, a comprehensive model of determinants of innovativeness is analyzed based on empirical data gathered from 184 manufacturing firms located in the Northern Marmara region in Turkey. As opposed to the studies that establish the relationship with a limited set of antecedents and innovativeness, this study allows us to investigate how significant is an antecedent compared to others. S...

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

This study investigates whether the relationship between firm-level product innovativeness and new product performance is curvilinear, and whether the nature of this relationship is dependent on organizational and environmental factors in both developed and emerging market contexts. Using primary data from 319 UK and 221 Ghanaian companies, this study shows that in both developed and emerging m...

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...

Knowledge management, innovativeness and innovation have an important impact on business development and survival. Empirically analyzing these three concepts is critical because of the importance of these concepts for creating competitive advantage. Organizations need to generate, modify, and manage knowledge in order to maintain their innovation capability. This study examines the relationship...

The study of institutions and innovativeness is presently high on the agenda of the social sciences. There is increasing concern with how a society’s innovativeness is associated with its international competitiveness. And as scholars study why the innovative styles of societies vary there has been increasing concern with how the institutional makeup of a society inuences its particular style ...

This study analyzed the effects of consumer innovativeness and self-efficacy on different age groups’ acceptance and diffusion of innovative technology. For this purpose, we measured delivery application service users’ innovativeness and self-efficacy, and found each age group’s levels of satisfaction, intent to use again, and intent to recommend. We used this data to analyze the influence that...

Various empirical studies investigate the correlation between diversity and innovativeness in New Product Development teams (NPD teams). However, those studies show various and contradicting results. Diversity can be a resource that helps to strengthen the innovativeness of a NPD team. On the other hand, diversity can act as a risk that leads to diminished team cohesiveness and thus obstructs i...

Service innovation is increasingly being recognized as an important strategy for firms to sustain competitive advantage. The interconnectivity and interactivity afforded through information technologies (IT) has transformed how new services are created, delivered, and experienced. With the newness of the phenomenon and the lack of understanding, information systems (IS) research examining the i...

Background: In many economies, both developed and developing rapidly, we can observe the potential of administration as organizations which under appropriate conditions may show high levels of innovation. The administration on one hand may be an active participant and on the other hand act as a creator of conditions conducive to innovative activities. Both of these roles are important and compl...