Organizations invest heavily in knowledge management systems (KMS) to improve integration of knowledge across different contexts, to foster new insights and produce innovation. Yet many initiatives fail. This research investigates how knowledge workers’ innovativeness and knowledge reuse are affected by different aspects of perceived support for innovation and the KMS they use to support their ...

Understanding, evaluating, and promoting individual innovativeness is a critical step in cultivating engineering leaders for the future. As a means of evaluating the gaps in current research related to innovativeness assessment, this paper analyzes ten measures and models of innovativeness through two lenses: (1) their internal vs. external point of reference (i.e., attribute vs. action); and (...

This research-in-progress seeks to understand the effects of crowdsourcing idea generation and selection on new product performance. The extent of crowdsourcing is conceptualized in terms of openness in idea generation and selection; new product performance is measured in terms of product innovativeness and sales growth. Preliminary findings from an analysis of 50 products indicate that idea ge...

This study reports on the testing of the hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between business strategy and innovativeness. Business strategy is defined here to include market focus strategy, technology development strategy, and operations priorities including cost, quality, delivery / dependability, and flexibility. An empirical study is conducted based on data collected using a qu...

This paper offers a comprehensive model of determinants of innovativeness based on empirical data gathered from 184 manufacturing firms located in the Northern Marmara region in Turkey. As opposed to studies that establish a relationship between a limited set of antecedents and innovativeness, this study allows us to investigate the significance of an antecedent when compared to others. Such in...

This study explored the effects of brand trust, perceived fit, and consumer innovativeness on the overall evaluation of vertical and horizontal extensions for fashion brands. Data were collected from 187 female consumers aged 18 or older who were familiar with Giorgio Armani, the parent brand chosen for this study. Regression results showed that brand trust was a positive predictor of the overa...

Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests should be designed. Our experimental study provides evidence by analyzing the effects of two different...

Technology adoption has been a very important area of interest in IS research. However, much of this research has been limited to the organizational and household contexts. There is a need to examine adoption at the consumer level as we believe that factors affecting adoption decisions in the contexts somewhat different from those affecting individual adoption situations. The purpose of this pa...

Business groups are key sources of innovation in emerging market economies, but we understand little about why innovativeness differs across groups and over time. Variation in the density of intra-group buyer-supplier ties, which are common structural linkages among group affiliates, can help explain both cross-sectional and temporal heterogeneity of group innovativeness. We argue that greater ...