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MODELLING THE ANTECEDENTS THAT INFLUENCE BRAND INNOVATIVENESS, AGE AND PERSONAL INNOVATIVENESS IN SOCIAL COMMERCE SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR
… This study explores the effects of personal innovativeness on the relationship between brand innovativeness and customer-based brand equity among South African social commerce users, aged from 18 to 55 years, of all ethnicities. The conceptual model of the study proposes that the moderating …
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Consumer Evaluation of Innovativeness in High-Tech Consumer Durables
… choosing the topic was to examine innovation and innovativeness from the viewpoint of the consumer, rather than from the viewpoint of the manufacturer or marketer.<br/><br/>For the purposes of the study, consumers were categorised on two dimensions; as innovators (or non-innovators) and as …
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How Engineering Innovators Characterize Engineering Innovativeness: A Qualitative Study
… stages of innovation?" This study of engineering innovativeness was set in an interpretivist framework and developed a socially co-constructed description of engineering innovativeness. The data were collected through interviews with experienced and recognized engineering innovators who described …
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Individual ambidexterity: a critical capability towards innovativeness in organisations
Innovation activities vary over time as organisations evolve towards more exploitative innovation to extract maximum performance from existing knowledge and operations. This is a natural evolution, where past innovators become the leaders, capital allocators and managers. Well-run and continuous …
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Towards Defining Categories of Innovativeness for the Construction Industry
… change by which such characteristics of innovativeness can be categorized. As a basis of this work, categories of innovativeness are those defined by Rogers (2003), and then expanded by parameters of innovativeness extracted from scholarly literature. The overarching goal of this research …
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Organizational and group antecedents of workgroup innovativeness in a service industry
This study tests a model of Workgroup Service Innovativeness that proposes that a workgroup’s climate for innovation mediates the relationship between organizational context (using the constructs: Organizational Climate and Task Design) and workgroup context (Group Self-efficacy, Group Citizenship …
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(International) top managers – Strategic implications for innovativeness, risk and digital transformation
… team (TMT) internationalization and firm innovativeness and argues that the accumulation of international knowledge and resources in the TMT benefits firm innovativeness. The second study analyzes the association between CEO internationalization and firms’ strategic risk-taking, paying …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
Innovation in United Kingdom (UK) healthcare has in the last decade been driven forward through national policy and the development of a national innovation infrastructure, underpinned by an imperative to change. An increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) provider units, the NHS trusts, …
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Information technology capability services that support organisational innovativeness in agriculture companies
… business practices that drive continual innovativeness in agriculture organisations. The study further describes five IT services utilised by agriculture organisations. Finally, the study describes the IT services that directly support the OI-focused business practices in agriculture …
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The rural elderly: personal innovativeness toward housing and acceptance of nontraditional housing types
… the factors which affect elderly individuals' innovativeness toward housing and factors which affect the acceptance of nontraditional housing type(s) by elderly individuals. The study analyzed data from the Southern Regional Research Project, 5-194, "Barriers and Incentives to Affordable …
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Music teachers and technology: An investigation of personal innovativeness, computer anxiety, and technological proficiency
… were surveyed as to their perceptions of self-innovativeness, computer anxiety, and proficiency in various technological hardware and software. Three hundred randomly-selected K-12 principals were also surveyed as to their perceptions of their music teacher's innovativeness. Results indicated …
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Digital Transformation in Sales: Managerial Cognition, Technology Adoption, and the Strategic Role of Innovativeness
… cognition, organisational and individual innovativeness, and customer relationship performance. The dissertation develops an integrative framework in which environmental pressures, organisational conditions, managerial interpretations, and salesperson adaptation jointly shape …
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The Technology of Innovative Behavior: A Causal Explanation of Agricultural Innovativeness of Indian Farmers
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The Role of Market Information Sources on New Product Innovativeness in a Myanmar Manufacturing Company
… the operationalisation of marketing. New product innovativeness (NPI) is the measurement of success of new product development (NPD) and is affected by market orientation. Four Diamond Company Limited is a three-generation local plastic manufacturing and distribution business specialising in …
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Assessing the impact of transformational leadership, organizational climate, and personality on individual innovativeness at work
… the effect of employee personality on individual innovativeness at work.</p> <p>The results of the study suggest a positive and significant relationship between organizational climate, transformational leadership, and individual innovativeness at work. Employee openness and extraversion showed a …
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Comparing the effects of motivational and instructional self-talk on individual artistic creativity and entrepreneurial innovativeness
… the effects of self-talk in the creativity and innovativeness of individuals, using motivational self-talk and instructional self-talk. The experiment was conducted on three groups of individuals, i.e, (1) a control group with no cue cards supplied, (2) a group where a motivational cue card is …
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