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Visuo-Haptic Integration Increases Purchase Intentions Via Processing Fluency

Consumers often touch products before reaching purchase decisions. However, no study thus far has conclusively clarified whether grasping products for a brief duration promotes purchase intentions. Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Mathias C. Streicher, Zachary Estes
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Social Media Capability Of Exporting Firms And Its Effects On Performance

Social media applications like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn have gained importance not only for private people but also for businesses. Our objective is to examine the extent to which the exporting Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Josep Rialp, Mª Del Carmen Alarcon, Alex Rialp
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Lag-Users Method: A New Source Of Idea Generation For New Products

Laggards are the last to adopt a product. Despite significant research on user-led innovation, prior literature ignores laggards’ impact on innovation. Companies cannot afford ignoring the input of Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Luis Filipe Lages, Sara F. Jahanmir
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Predicting The Innovator

Who are the innovative customers for new products? Despite considerable research in this area, a striking characteristic of innovators was identified over 35 years ago. In work since often Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Malcolm Wright, Philip Stern, Margaret Faulkner, Roman Konopka
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Late Adopter Scale: A Tool To Identify Late Adopters Of Technology Innovation

Literature on innovation mainly focuses on the early adopters. The first step to involve the late adopters in the process of innovation is to identify them. With this aim, we conduct two studies and Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Sara F. Jahanmir, Luis Filipe Lages
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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