The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is considered to be universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independently of their national identity, and therefore would be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. Though, research in intercultural marketing has long shown that cultural ...

The Internet is changing the ways of doing business in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of developing countries. The rapid diffusion of the Internet in China brings Chinese SMEs new business opportunities. This paper proposes a framework for studying the adoption of e-commerce in Chinese SMEs. The research model combines organizational innovation adoption literature and the theory ...

We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of lexical dynamics in networks. Our new model, the degree-biased voter model with innovation, shows that the probability of existence of a norm is inversely related to innovation probability. When the innovation rate in ...

On the basis of investigation and interview, so many affect factors were found out, and according to the research on innovation theory, the affect factors of technology innovation in Marine pharmaceutical enterprises in Zhejiang province were identified as human resources, Marine science and technology policy, financing environment, infrastructure, and Marine technology platform, Marine cultura...

Can we move beyond simply networking creative individuals to establishing diverse communities of practice for innovation through discursive methods. Furthermore, can we digitise their creativity activities within an integrative socio-cultural collaborative technology platform that could then support distributed innovation. First, we consider the complexity of creative cultures from the perspect...

Using Institutional theory, we show that the relationship between an information service firm’s innovation activities and firm performance is moderated by cultural and regulatory distances. Because this involves two different units of analysis, a hierarchical regression scheme was used employing 22 nations and 442 firms. We found that the relationship between R&D and sales is stronger for firms...

The present research confirms that during the most recent (2008-) economic crisis, ICT indicators showed deviations from the classical diffusion of innovation trends with regard to individual ICT components. The reason for the deviations should be sought in economic, but also social, cultural, political and other influence factors. During the latest crisis (2008-2011), we thus observed the foll...

As an important cultural pattern, Mingtang affected the construction law of generation and inheritance of Chinese ancient architectural form. Further, it is proved that inherent relevance between cultural pattern and Tang Liuzhou East Pavilion. With function of not only post hostel, but education, recreation and landscape, it still shouldered mission of culture dissemination with political, cul...