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 ...

In recent years, crowdfunding has gained a lot of popularity as it helps to leverage the power crowd in development and commercialization new products. Thus, scholars are encouraged explore factors that could enhance success these projects. This article investigates impact social interaction (i.e., proactively updating potential funders seeking their feedback) on project among technology ventur...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...