Abstract
This chapter analyses factors influencing manufacturers= adoption and implementation of Internet-based marketing channels, using models based on marketing channel and organisational innovation theory. Survey data from 1163 Danish, Finnish, and Swedish manufacturers form the empirical basis for testing the models using LISREL analysis. The results stress that adoption of Internet-based marketing is influenced by willingness to cannibalize, management support, market pressure, and a firm=s knowledge of IT. Willingness to cannibalize mediates the effects of future market orientation, ownership, specialised investments, and management support. This is mainly the case in small firms, as the importance of the various drivers and the adoption pattern vary between size categories. Market-pull factors have relatively more explanatory power in medium-sized and large companies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | E-Business Innovation and Process Management |
| Editors | In Lee |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Publisher | Cybertech Publishing, Idea Group Inc. |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 42-67 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |