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Who Are The Adopters Of Retro-Technology?

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  • JACK ADAMS

    (Queensland University of Technology, School of Management Level 9, Z Block, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4000, QLD, Australia)

  • OZGUR DEDEHAYIR

    (Queensland University of Technology, School of Management Level 9, Z Block, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4000, QLD, Australia)

  • PETER O’CONNOR

    (Queensland University of Technology, School of Management Level 9, Z Block, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4000, QLD, Australia)

  • TOMI NOKELAINEN

    (Berggren Oy, Visiokatu 1, 33720 Tampere, Finland)

Abstract

This paper studies the motivations and personality traits of retro-tech adopters. From a survey conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk with 466 respondents, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis to establish motivational factors, and then ran a correlation analysis to determine the relationships between these motivations and the facet-level traits of the BFI-2 model. Our findings indicate that retro-tech consumers are not a homogenous adopter category, as individuals are affected by different motivations — aesthetic, fashionability, nostalgic positive emotionality, non-conformism and quality. Our study additionally suggests a cyclical conceptualisation of the diffusion of innovations model, or its extension to include a new group of retro-adopters.

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  • Jack Adams & Ozgur Dedehayir & Peter O’Connor & Tomi Nokelainen, 2019. "Who Are The Adopters Of Retro-Technology?," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(08), pages 1-18, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:23:y:2019:i:08:n:s1363919619400097
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919619400097
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