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Self-service innovativeness scale: introduction, development, and validation of scale

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  • Arun Kumar Kaushik

    (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

  • Zillur Rahman

    (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

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Consumer innovativeness is a central variable in innovation diffusion and adoption literature. The foremost challenge confronted by investigators involved in innovation diffusion and adoption research is the problem of measuring the innovativeness construct. Furthermore, a scale measuring innovativeness towards self-service technologies (SSTs) adoption is required as SSTs have grown considerably in the last few decades. To this end, this study develops and validates a self-service innovativeness (SSI) scale applicable across a variety of SSTs. The study presents a series of six distinct phases describing the development and validation of a six-item, self-report scale. The innovativeness scale has been validated in different contexts, allowing comparisons across distinct samples (i.e., student vs. non-student sample) and different industries (i.e., retail and hospitality industries). The SSI scale presented in this paper is short, valid, reliable, and easy to administer in service domains.

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  • Arun Kumar Kaushik & Zillur Rahman, 2016. "Self-service innovativeness scale: introduction, development, and validation of scale," Service Business, Springer;Pan-Pacific Business Association, vol. 10(4), pages 799-822, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:svcbiz:v:10:y:2016:i:4:d:10.1007_s11628-015-0291-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s11628-015-0291-0
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