The effect of innovation and consumer related factors on consumer resistance to innovation

Implementations of technological innovations have been playing key roles for firms to grow and survive in the long run particularly in a dynamic and complex market and unstable economic conditions. The success of any innovation in the market which highly depends on consumers could be one of the pote...

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Autores principales: Mazhar Abbas, Muhammad Shahid Nawaz, Jamil Ahmad, Muhammad Ashraf
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c6b66e0f108a40dd92d7c48b41fee1592021-12-02T14:35:46ZThe effect of innovation and consumer related factors on consumer resistance to innovation2331-197510.1080/23311975.2017.1312058https://doaj.org/article/c6b66e0f108a40dd92d7c48b41fee1592017-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2017.1312058https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1975Implementations of technological innovations have been playing key roles for firms to grow and survive in the long run particularly in a dynamic and complex market and unstable economic conditions. The success of any innovation in the market which highly depends on consumers could be one of the potential factors behind the failure of the innovation. Research on innovation resistance is still in infancy and effort to describe the resistance as well as understanding the consumers’ resistance to innovation still requires in-depth investigations including the context of resistance to innovation. As a response to this problem, this study examines the consumers’ resistance to innovation through measuring the resistance to smartphones. This study is grounded by the resistance to innovation and appraisal theories. In the research framework, this study includes consumers’ characteristics (motivation, self-efficacy, emotion (negative), and attitude toward existing product) and innovation characteristics (relative advantage, perceived risk, complexity, social influence, and price). A cross sectional, survey data were gathered from 307 university students of four public universities in Pakistan via self-administered survey questionnaires. They were statistically tested using PLS (SEM) path modeling. The results demonstrate the concept of consumers’ resistance to innovation in the context of Pakistan.Mazhar AbbasMuhammad Shahid NawazJamil AhmadMuhammad AshrafTaylor & Francis Grouparticleresistance to innovationrisksocial influencepriceemotion (negative)relative advantageBusinessHF5001-6182Management. Industrial managementHD28-70ENCogent Business & Management, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2017)
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topic resistance to innovation
risk
social influence
price
emotion (negative)
relative advantage
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
spellingShingle resistance to innovation
risk
social influence
price
emotion (negative)
relative advantage
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
Mazhar Abbas
Muhammad Shahid Nawaz
Jamil Ahmad
Muhammad Ashraf
The effect of innovation and consumer related factors on consumer resistance to innovation
description Implementations of technological innovations have been playing key roles for firms to grow and survive in the long run particularly in a dynamic and complex market and unstable economic conditions. The success of any innovation in the market which highly depends on consumers could be one of the potential factors behind the failure of the innovation. Research on innovation resistance is still in infancy and effort to describe the resistance as well as understanding the consumers’ resistance to innovation still requires in-depth investigations including the context of resistance to innovation. As a response to this problem, this study examines the consumers’ resistance to innovation through measuring the resistance to smartphones. This study is grounded by the resistance to innovation and appraisal theories. In the research framework, this study includes consumers’ characteristics (motivation, self-efficacy, emotion (negative), and attitude toward existing product) and innovation characteristics (relative advantage, perceived risk, complexity, social influence, and price). A cross sectional, survey data were gathered from 307 university students of four public universities in Pakistan via self-administered survey questionnaires. They were statistically tested using PLS (SEM) path modeling. The results demonstrate the concept of consumers’ resistance to innovation in the context of Pakistan.
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