Rogers’ Innovation Adoption Attributes: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Existing Research

Abstract

A systematic approach is adopted to review the literature, followed by a meta-analysis of articles on Rogers’ innovation-attributes. All publications from 1996–2011 are extracted; 226 relevant innovation articles are studied to showcase the informative trends pertaining to Rogers’ five attributes—eight features of ideal innovation-attribute study (approach, dependent variable, study type, instrument, measure, attributes, innovations, adopting unit), and antecedents-descendants of Rogers’ innovation attributes. These findings, limitations, and future research suggestions are presented.

Keywords:

• adoption
• innovation
• meta analysis
• systematic review
• Everett Rogers

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors would like to thank the Editor and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions for improvement on an earlier version of this article.

Notes

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