Quantitative study – Impact of barriers on user innovation

Abstract

The qualitative study (see section II) revealed by exploratory analyses that user innovation barriers and resource constraints influence the user innovation process differently. Further they also influence the user innovations’ product properties differently. Thus, the study spawned two distinct research fields: The impact of barriers on user innovation and the impact of resource-based constraints on user innovation. The present quantitative study aims to focus on the first mentioned research field of user innovation barriers and to go beyond the current findings. The objective is to explore direct and moderating effects of user innovation barriers and user innovators’ characteristics on the user innovations’ product properties at the hand of the dissertation’s research questions.