Consumer acceptance of a revolutionary technology-driven product: The role of adoption in the industrial design development

Jungkun Park, Frances Gunn, YoungHee Lee and Scott Shim

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2015, vol. 26, issue C, 115-124

Abstract: Understanding how consumers adopt a state of the art product is important for the development and marketing of innovative products. The purpose of this study is to examine factors that affect consumer intentions to use a revolutionary technology-driven product (RTP). The research integrates two innovation adoption models, the Unified Technology Acceptance and Utilization Theory (UTAUT) and the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model with two antecedents of consumer characteristics: consumer innovativeness and perceived value of a new product. The study examines consumer responses to an unfamiliar product, the TEASER which is a conceptual digital cookbook that offers taste sampling, thereby providing an online food-tasting experience. Consumers who are prone to innovativeness and who perceive value in a RTP’s aesthetics are able to discern the conditions that support their intent to use such a product. The resulting model expands the UTAUT and TTF theories by showing that UTAUT variables mediate between the variables of TTF and adoption intentions. These results support the need for nonlinear industrial development processes involving consumers.

Keywords: Really new product development; Consumer innovativeness; Task-technology fit; Adoption intention model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2015.05.003

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