BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! INVESTIGATING DETERMINANTS OF AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TEMPORARY AND CONTINUOUS INNOVATION REJECTIONS

Sven Heidenreich, Jan A. Millemann and Slawka Jordanow
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Sven Heidenreich: ,‡Faculty of Human and Business Sciences, Chair of Technology and Innovation Management, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Jan A. Millemann: ��Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Innovation Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing, Eindhoven University of Technology Building 3, Atlas 6, De Groene Loper, P.O. Box Eindhoven, MB 513 5600, The Netherlands
Slawka Jordanow: ,‡Faculty of Human and Business Sciences, Chair of Technology and Innovation Management, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2022, vol. 26, issue 04, 1-43

Abstract: Little research effort has been dedicated to investigate the nature and determinants of and the differences between temporary and continuous consumer rejections of innovations. To shed light on both types of consumer rejection behaviours and their underlying psychological processes, this paper applies a mixed-method approach. First, we conducted a qualitative study to investigate whether known determinants comprehensively cover reasons for both types of consumer rejections. Based on the qualitative study’s evidence, we introduce a new type of innovation resistance (transactional innovation resistance) to complement the well-known concepts of active and passive innovation resistance as drivers of rejection behaviour. Second, we validated the derived framework using a large-scale quantitative study to empirically determine each determinant’s relative importance for temporary and continuous consumer rejection of innovations. Our results demonstrate that consumers who continuously reject an innovation are primarily driven by a combinatory effect of passive and active innovation resistance. In contrast, consumers who only temporarily reject are largely motivated by a combinatory effect of transactional and active innovation resistance.

Keywords: Adoption behaviour; innovation diffusion; innovation resistance; continuous rejection; temporary rejection; postponement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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