The role of SME entrepreneurs’ innovativeness and personality in the adoption of innovations

By Alberto Marcati, Gianluigi Guido, Alessandro M. Peluso. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing

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Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, unknown): “Marcati, Guido, and Peluso (2008) show that the inﬂuence of general innovativeness (GI) on the intention to adopt innovations (as proxy for actual innovative behaviour in one’s ﬁrm) is completely mediated by domain speciﬁc innovativeness (SI).”
Perspectives and Dimensions of Consumer Innovativeness: A Literature Review and Future Agenda (2014, background): “…Prasad 1998; Agarwal and Karahanna 2000; Goldsmith 2001; C. Park and Jun 2003; Lafferty and Goldsmith 2004; Reisenwitz et al. 2007; Lu et al. 2008; Marcati, Guido, and Peluso 2008), and purchase usage/intention (H. J. Park, Burns, and Rabolt 2007; Reisenwitz et al. 2007) also have significant…”
Examining determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in Slovenia: applying the theory of planned behaviour and an innovative cognitive style (2018, background): “This is, as Marcati et al. (2008) explain, due to the presumption that adaptors seldom change existing beliefs or policies and see themselves as doing things better and more efficiently than others, while, on the other hand, innovators tend to do things in a different way, initiating fundamental…”
Determinants of innovativeness in SMEs: disentangling core innovation and technology adoption capabilities (2017, background): “This favours the innovative level in organisations (Forsman, 2011; Marcati et al., 2008), but, according to Kraus et al. (2012b: 161), those “innovative SMEs should minimize the level of risk”.”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “Marcati, Guido, and Peluso (2008) relate an entrepreneur’s intention to adopt innovations (in small and medium sized enterprises) to the entrepreneur’s innovative attitude.”
Cloud computing adoption by SMEs in the north east of England: A multi-perspective framework (2013, background): “On the firm level, the receptiveness of an organisation towards new ideas plays a key role in the adoption of innovations in SMEs (Marcati et al., 2008).”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, unknown): “In one study, Marcati et al. (2008) argue that domain-specific innovativeness of founders completely mediates their general innovativeness in a sample of 188 entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized firms of various industries.”