Few research agendas have successfully addressed tourism firm-level innovativeness, and the few studies that do exist typically provide only descriptive data or often remain at a conceptual level (Siguaw et al., 2006). Subsequently, an extensive knowledge gap concerning what constitutes firm-level innovativeness exists. Academics are confusing innovativeness with innovation and innovation orien...

This paper utilizes the technology acceptance model (TAM) to uncover the moderating roles of technology innovativeness. A study of 158 undergraduate students revealed that the original TAM constructs and relationships were reliable, supported, and applicable in the measurement of e-book acceptance. Interestingly, personal technology innovativeness was found to moderate in a significant way, the...

This study applies the view of domain specific innovativeness (DSI) to examine the relationships between consumer innovativeness, lifestyle, knowledge, exploratory buying behavior tendencies, and the intentions to adopt location-based services (LBS). It is found that consumers with different levels of innovativeness toward LBS have different lifestyles and adoption intentions for LBS. Specifica...

Prior research on information technology (IT) adoption has examined adoption of individual technologies with little attention to the adoption of IT platforms. IT platforms are general purpose technologies that are used by application developers to build specific applications for individual or organizational needs. IT platform adoption is different from the adoption of independent IT, in that (1...

Wireless Internet on mobile devices (WIMD) technology is rapidly growing in many countries including Malaysia. As WIMD is still in its growing stage, it is appropriate to conduct research on technology adoption of WIMD. This paper analyses the intention to use WIMD among Malaysians. The study adopted the Technology acceptance model (TAM) as it is considered to be one of the best models to study...

This a conceptual paper concerning the relation between innovativeness and monopoly rent/abnormal earnings. It discusses how these concepts can be measured and proposes that abnormal earnings are the result differentiation, by innovativeness (monopoly rent) or branding, by underor overvalued assets, or by imperfect market information (value irrelevance). Specifically, innovativeness as a driver...

It is predicted that significant and ongoing investment in M-Commerce platforms and application development by commercial entities will fundamentally change consumers’ shopping and web browsing behaviours. However, the evolving behaviour of Smart Phone users is somewhat tempered by concerns over M-Payments. If Smart Phones are to reach their full M-Commerce potential, the ability of consumers t...