Call for Papers

Special Section of Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics (SSCI) on ¡°Product Innovation & Consumer Behaviors¡±

for 2019 KSMS International Conference

(Seoul, Republic of Korea, Nov. 16-17, 2019)

Deadline of Extended Abstract: Oct. 20, 2019

Product innovation is a sustainable method that guarantees the core competences of enterprises. However, between 50% and 90% of new products fail in the market (Castellion & Markham, 2013; Andre & Sirkin, 2003). The failure of new product innovation creates significant economic loss for firms. For example, firms in the United States lose a potential profit of 135 million dollars each year because of the failure to market new products while many other companies around the world are in debt as a result of similar problems (Clancy et al, 2006). In such situations, it is imperative that firms should spend substantial time and effort for product innovation.

In terms of research, product innovation is a broad field, which cannot only focus on the innovation performance or innovation adoption. It needs to associate with other dimensions, e.g., brand (Liao & Cheng, 2014), design (Moon, Park, & Kim, 2015), social media (Muninger, Hammedi, & Mahr, 2019), business ethics (Xie, Qi, & Zhu, 2018), service and sustainable issues (Tseng, Wu, Chiu, Lim, & Tan, 2018). Current research in innovation has considered the success factors for innovation from the company side. However, both innovation adoption and resistance researches lack of the study on the consumer psychology and behavioral perspectives (Duke, 2002; Mani & Chouk, 2018; Heidenreich & Kraemer, 2016). The critical factor that leads to the failure of innovation is consumer resistance to innovation (CRI) (Heidenreich & Spieth, 2013). Thus, studying innovation in consumers¡¯ psychology and habits is vital at this time. 

Consumer behavior is one of the most important parts in innovation research (Woodside, 1996). Thus, this special section aims to contribute to the evolution of theories in consumer behaviors toward innovation. Potential research topics in Product Innovation & Consumer Behaviors may include (but are not limited):

• Consumer psychology in active/passive innovation resistance

• Antecedents of consumer innovation adoption and resistance

• Overcome strategies for consumer resistance to innovation

• The role of demographic features in consumer innovation study

• Social influence on consumer innovation study

• Medias (traditional or new) on consumer behavior toward innovation

• The difference consumer attitude toward innovation adoption/resistance based on cross-culture context

• Multi-methodology in consumer innovation research

• Product innovation strategy and analytics

• Product innovation and brand management

• Product design management in consumer behaviors

• Product innovation and consumer behaviors in digital era

• Privacy, public policy and legal issues in product innovation

• Sustainability in product innovation and consumer behaviors

• Product innovation and business consumer behaviors

• The role of advertising in product innovation and consumer behaviors

• The role of social network service (SNS) in product innovation and consumer behaviors

Submission Deadline: October 20, 2019

Authors should submit their extended abstracts to the co-chairs of the track called ¡°Product Innovation & Consumer Behaviors¡± of ¡®2019 KSMS International Conference¡¯ (Korea University Business School, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Nov. 16-17, 2019) and express their intentions to publish their papers in a special section of APJML on Product Innovation & Consumer Behaviors.

Full papers submission deadline will be notified to the authors after the 2019 KSMS International Conference.

2019 KSMS International Conference: https://www.kams.org/maine.html

Guest Editors:

Dr. Yang Sun, 25-1719, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, 5 Second Avenue, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China, Email: sunyang8227@hotmail.com , TEL: +86-571-8684-3734.

Dr. Hakil Moon, Department of Marketing, College of Business, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA, E-mail: hmoon3@emich.edu, TEL: +1-734- 487-3323

References

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Castellion, G., & Markham, S. K. (2013). Perspective: New Product Failure Rates: Influence of Argumentum ad Populum and Self-Interest. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30(5), 976-979.

Clancy, K. J., Krieg, P. C., & Wolf, M. M. (2006). Market new products successfully. Lexington Books.

Duke, L. (2002). Get real!: Cultural relevance and resistance to the mediated feminine ideal. Psychology & Marketing, 19(2), 211-233.

Heidenreich, S. & Kraemer, T. (2016). Innovations—doomed to fail? investigating strategies to overcome passive innovation resistance. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33(3), 277-297.

Heidenreich S, Spieth P. (2013). Why innovations fail—The case of passive and active innovation resistance. International Journal of Innovation Management, 17(5), 1–42.

Labrecque, J. S., Wood, W., Neal, D. T. and Harrington, N. (2016). Habit slips: when consumers unintentionally resist new products. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 45(1), 119-133.

Liao, S., & Cheng, C. C. (2014). Brand equity and the exacerbating factors of product innovation failure evaluations: A communication effect perspective. Journal of business research, 67(1), 2919-2925.

Mani, Z. & Chouk, I. (2018). Consumer resistance to innovation in services: Challenges and barriers in the internet of things era. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(5), 780-807.

Moon, H., Park, J., & Kim, S. (2015). The Importance of an innovative product design on customer behavior: development and validation of a scale. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 32(2), 224-232.

Muninger, M. I., Hammedi, W., & Mahr, D. (2019). The value of social media for innovation: A capability perspective. Journal of Business Research, 95, 116-127.

Tseng, M. L., Wu, K. J., Chiu, A. S., Lim, M. K., & Tan, K. (2018). Service innovation in sustainable product service systems: Improving performance under linguistic preferences. International Journal of Production Economics, 203, 414-425.

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