Domain-specific innovativeness: A meta-analysis in business and consumer
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The specific domain of a product and the perception of innovation are topics that aroused interest in research in the last twenty years, especially after the development of the domain-specific innovativeness (DSI) construct. This paper conducted a meta-analysis to assess the consequents of the DSI. To this end, a total of 276 works were identified in nine databases, of which 78 were included in the study work, generating 98 observations for a sample set of 40,641. The results showed significant relationships between the consequents: adoption of innovation, attitude, behavioral intention, product usage, opinion leader and risk perception. Furthermore, it was noted that the research method (survey vs. experimental) and the country of application (Western vs. Eastern) were moderating factors of the relationships between DSI, opinion leader and behavioral intention.
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Previous work has identified self-control and domain-specific innovativeness as important antecedents to food consumption behavior.
“Previous work has identified self-control (de Ridder, Lensvelt-Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2012;Stautz, Zupan, Field, & Marteau, 2018) and domain-specific innovativeness (Araujo, Ladeira, & Santini, 2016;Huotilainen, Pirttilä-Backman, & Tuorila, 2006) as important antecedents to food consumption behavior, but to our knowledge, no study of which we are aware has identified a segment of”
From Relationships between functional food consumption and individual traits and values: A segmentation approach (2021) · cites this paper as Araujo et al., 2016
Meta-analytic evidence points to associations between domain-specific innovativeness and innovation adoption, attitude, behavioral intentions, and product usage.
“Meta-analytic evidence points to associations between domain-specific innovativeness and innovation adoption, attitude, behavioral intentions, and product usage (Araujo et al., 2016).”
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- Authors
- Araujo, C. F., Ladeira, W. J., Santini, F. D. O., & Sampaio, C. H.
- Affiliations
- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (BR)
- Venue
- RAI revista de administração e inovação
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2016-04
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 99-106
- ISSN
- 1809-2039 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2472625288
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 0.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- RAI revista de administração e inovação (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Behavior and Marketing Influence
- Keywords
- domain-specific innovativeness, innovation perception, innovation adoption, consumer attitudes, behavioral intention, product use, opinion leaders, risk perception
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