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Innovation or Technological Madness? A Research on the Students of Business Administration for Their Preferences of Innovation and Technology

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  • Mustafa Zincirkiran
  • Hidayet Tiftik

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This research aims to identify the attitudes of university students, who are assumed to keep up with innovative changes and developments, towards technology. It is also aimed to test and improve the validity and reliability of the scale through methods such as factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Students are asked questions about their purpose in following up the technology, the effect of innovation on their lives as well as the questions about their level of using Internet and smart phone, which have a significant place in technology. Considering the answers of students having participated in the research, it is possible to state that their reactions to the concepts of technology and innovation are at the medium level. They also think that technology is now a lifestyle rather than a madness and they see technology as a part of their lives. It is possible to say assume that the uncertainty in their answers is the indicator of this fact.

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  • Mustafa Zincirkiran & Hidayet Tiftik, 2014. "Innovation or Technological Madness? A Research on the Students of Business Administration for Their Preferences of Innovation and Technology," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 4(2), pages 320-336, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:4:y:2014:i:2:p:320-336
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Technology; Factor Analysis; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Structural Equation Model;
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    JEL classification:

    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other

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