The front-end phase of the innovation process constitutes up to two-thirds of the total cost of new product development (NPD). In response to the new open innovation paradigm, new ways to integrate customers’ knowledge into the innovation front-end must be explored. In an attempt to learn from analogous situations in which the interface between developers and customers has been managed successf...

In this paper, we first attempt to review user acceptance theory and then discuss the four common models. Second, this study intends to assess the relationship of Users’ Informational-Based Readiness (UIBR), the tendency to adopt Internet banking services JIBC August 2009, Vol. 14, No. 2 2 as an innovation and whether or not it contributes to the prediction of an individual’s intention (decisio...

This paper explores patterns of transformation of socialist S&T systems into postsocialist systems of innovation and their determinants. First, we reinterpret the socialist period from a systems of innovation perspective by revisiting the socialist S&T system and by pointing to its general features as well as to its national and sectoral variations. Second, we develop a conceptual model to help...

Based on Dunning’s OLI framework and the investment development path theory, this paper investigated the determinants of outward FDI by China’s provincial firms. The results show that provincial economic development, innovation and technology, and export to GDP ratio are statistically significant determinants, while FDI inflows, import to GDP ratio and provincial market size are not statistical...

The success of any agricultural innovation depends on its adoption by farmers. The study evaluates the determinants of adoption of vitamin A bio-fortified cassava variety among farmers by investigating the level of adoption and determinants of adoption among farmers. Three stages of random sampling procedure were used to select 240 cassava farmers. The data obtained were analyzed with descripti...

This study investigates how two competing capital structure theories: the pecking order and the static trade-off models, impact financing decisions in multinational interand intra-firm innovation collaborations. The results show that for the pecking order model, debt repayment, working capital, capital expenditure and operating cash flow are the main variables determining a deficiency in intern...

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on whether first mover strategies pay o...