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...

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...

This article explores how perceived disempowerment impacts the intention to adopt smart autonomous products. Empirically, the paper builds on three studies to show this impact. Study 1 explores the relevance of the perceived disempowerment in respect of smart autonomous products. Study 2 manipulates autonomy of smart products and finds that perceived disempowerment mediates the link between sma...

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 ...

This study presents and empirically validates a model that describes user adoption behavior towards email notification interface agents from the end-user perspective. In addition to the original Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) constructs, the model included perceived enjoyment, computer playfulness, and personal innovativeness in the domain of IT. Data were collected from 75 actual email inte...

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...

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...

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...

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...