5T - Product Development Management in the Network Economy

Diffusion and Adoption of Mobile Innovations (DAAMI)

The Global Diffusion of Innovations in Telecommunication Business: Forecasting and the Management of the Diffusion Process

Vilpponen, A., Winter, S. and Sundqvist, S. (2006). Electronic word-of-mouth in online environments: Exploring referral network structure and adoption behavior. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 6 (2), 71−86.

Kuivalainen, O. and Sundqvist, S. (2004). Does higher internationalization intensity lead towards better performance? In Larimo., J. and Rumpunen, S. (ed.) Recent European research on SME export behavior and internationalization. Proceedings of the University of Vaasa, Reports 111, 150-162.

Kuivalainen, O., Sundqvist, S. and Cadogan, J. (2004). High-tech, high turbulence, high performance? - The role of competitive environment in the relationship between technology intensity, customer orientation and export performance. 31st Annual conference of the Academy of International Business (AIB) UK chapter, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, April 23-24, 2004.

Kuivalainen, O., Sundqvist, S., Puumalainen, K. and Cadogan, J. (2004). The effect of environmental turbulence and leader characteristics on international performance: Are knowledge-based firms different? Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 21(1), 35-50.

Lindqvist, J., Karine, E.-M., Sintonen, S., Asikainen, S.-K., Frank, L., Puumalainen, K. (2003). Innovaatioiden diffuusio tietoliikennealalla: Kuinka innovaatiot omaksutaan ja miten ne yleistyvät? The diffusion of innovations in telecommunications: How innovations are adopted and how do they diffuse? Research Report 7, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Business Administration.

Asikainen, S-K., Frank, L. and Puumalainen, K. (2002). Modeling cross-country diffusion of wireless communications: The effect of country characteristics, cultural similarity and adoption timing. Journal of Business Research, forthcoming.

Asikainen, S-K., Frank, L., Puumalainen, K. and Kämäräinen, J.-K. (2002). Forecasting the critical mass of wireless communications. Paper Accepted for ANZMAC 2002 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2-4.

Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). Antecedents to export market orientation: A study of Finnish exporters. IEM Research Report 134. Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). An innovation adoption framework for telecommunications. In Proceedings of Multicultural Marketing Conference. Volume IV-B 2002. The Academy of Marketing Science. pp. 502-518. (eds) Salah S. Hassan, Enrique Bigné and Vic Johar. ISBN 0-931268-24-9, ISSN 0149-7421, Valencia, Spain, June 26-29, 2002.

Asikainen, S.-K. and Saarenketo, S. (2002). Does export market orientation facilitate rapid and intensive internationalization? Beyond boundaries: Challenges of leadership, innovation, integration, and technology. Proceedings of Global Business and Technology Association International Conference, 1098-1106, ed. Delener, N. and Chao, C., ISBN 0-9657171-4-3, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.

Asikainen, S.-K. and Sintonen, S. (2002). Comparison of adopters of cellular phones: Empirical evidence from Germany. Marketing in a Changing World: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges. Proceedings of 31st EMAC2002 Conference, Braga, Portugal, May 28-31, 2002. CD-ROM.

Asikainen, S.-K., Sintonen, S. and Frank, L. (2002). Adoption of mobile services within a social network. AMS conference, Valencia, Spain, June 26-29, 2002.

Asikainen, S.-K., Sintonen, S. and Frank, L. (2002). Diffusion of mobile services within a social network. In Proceedings of Multicultural Marketing Conference. Volume IV-C 2002. The Academy of Marketing Science. pp. 175-186. (eds) Vic Johar, Enrique Bigné and Salah S. Hassan. ISBN 0-931268-24-9, ISSN 0149-7421, Valencia, Spain, June 26-29, 2002.

Asikainen, S.K. (2002). Market orientation in the international context: Antecedents, consequences and applicability. Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 131, Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Blomqvist, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Soininen, M. (2002). Towards measuring inter-organizational trust: Some issues in conceptualization and operationalization of trust in recent research on inter-organizational trust. A paper presented in the European Academy of Management Trust track in the 2nd Annual Conference on Innovative Research in Management, Stockholm May 8–11.

Cadogan, J. (2002). Market oriented -behavior: Comparing service with product exporters. European Journal of Marketing, 36(9/10), 1076-1102.

Frank, L. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). The effect of human development and technology achievement on the diffusion of wireless communications. IAMOT 2002, Miami, Florida, March 10-15, 2002.

Ilonen, J., Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K., Kämäräinen, J.-K. and Kälviäinen, H. (2002). Forecasting the global diffusion of wireless subscriptions: A neural network approach. Paper Accepted to International Conference on Wireless Strategy in the Enterprise: An International Research Perspective, University of California, Berkeley, USA, October 15 - 16, 2002.

Jumpponen, J. (2002). The diffusion of mobile communications in Russia – A regional approach. Beyond boundaries: Challenges of leadership, innovation, integration, and technology. Proceedings of Global Business and Technology Association International Conference, p. 608-624. ed. Nejdet Delener and Chinag-nan Chao. ISBN 0-9657171-4-3, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.

Kuivalainen, O., Asikainen, S.-K. and Puumalainen, K. (2002). Effect of environmental turbulence and leader characteristics on international performance: Are knowledge-based firms different? The 3rd Biennial McGill Conference on International Entrepreneurship, Montreal, Canada, September 13-16.

Pitkänen, S., Frank, L., Puumalainen, K. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). Forecasting the critical mass of cellulars and fax machines. 22nd International Symposium on Forecasting, Dublin, Ireland, June 23-26, 2002.

Puumalainen, K. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). Forecasting the global diffusion of innovations in telecommunications – A review of models and applications. Beyond Boundaries: Challenges of Leadership, Innovation, Integration, and Technology. Proceedings of Global Business and Technology Association International Conference, 615-624, ed. Delener, N. and Chao, C., ISBN 0-9657171-4-3, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.

Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Huiskonen, J. (2002). Managing uncertainty in forecasting the diffusion of telecommunications innovations. IAMOT 2002, Miami, Florida, March 10-15, 2002.

Saarenketo, S. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). Comparison of born global and traditionally internationalizing firms: Effects of industry and managerial characteristics.
Proceedings of GBATA 2002 Conference, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.

Saarenketo, S. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2002). Born global companies: Empirical evidence from Finland. Beyond Boundaries: Challenges of Leadership, Innovation, Integration, and Technology. Proceedings of Global Business and Technology Association International Conference, 1058-1065, ed. Delener, N. and Chao, C., ISBN 0-9657171-4-3, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.

Asikainen, S.-K., Blomqvist, K., Ahola, J., Kyläheiko, K. and Salmi, P. (2001). Industrial districts and regional development: Towards a knowledge-based view. Working Paper 7, Working Paper Series of Technology Business Research Center, Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Asikainen, S.-K., Frank, L. and Puumalainen, K. (2001). Cross-cultural adoption of wireless communications: Effects of cultural distance and country characteristics. 8th Cross-Cultural Research Conference, Oahu, Hawaii, December 13-15, 2001.

Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K. and Frank, L. (2001). Three methods for forecasting the diffusion of innovations in telecommunications environment: Neural networks, adoption behavior, and spatial diffusion models. ISPIM 2001 Conference, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K. and Frank, L. (2001). Three methods for forecasting the diffusion of innovations in telecommunications environment: Neural networks, adoption behavior, and spatial diffusion models. Challenges of innovation and tech management for the new millenium. Proceedings of ISPIM 2001 – the 13th International Conference, 337-345, ed. Tuominen, M. and Torkkeli, M., ISBN 951-764-558-9, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K., Frank, L. and Pitkänen, S. (2001). Forecasting capability of the diffusion models in telecommunications business. International Symposium of Forecasting, Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA, June 17-19, 2001.

Cadogan, J. and Nicola, P. (2001). Key antecedents to export market-oriented behaviors: A cross-national empirical examination. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 18(3) 261-282.

Elfvengren, K., Koivuniemi, J., Kärkkäinen, H., Ojanen, V., Asikainen, S.-K. and Torkkeli, M. (2001). Challenges of innovation management in telecommunications industry. Challenges of innovation and tech management for the new millenium. Proceedings of ISPIM 2001 – the 13th International Conference, 23-35, ed. Tuominen, M. and Torkkeli, M., ISBN 951-764-558-9, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Elfvengren, K., Koivuniemi, J., Ojanen, V., Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Torkkeli, A. (2001). Supporting innovation management in the network economy: Meeting research challenges. Working Paper. Lappeenranta University of Technology

Frank, L., Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K. and Sintonen, S. (2001). Cross-cultural comparison of innovators: Empirical evidence from wireless services in Finland, Germany and Greece. ANZMAC2001 Conference, Massey, New Zealand, December 3-5, 2001.

Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Frank, L. (2001). Modelling the diffusion of mobile subscriptions in Finland: Effects of data aggregation. ISPIM 2001 Conference, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Frank, L. (2001). Modelling the diffusion of mobile subscriptions in Finland: Effects of data aggregation. Challenges of innovation and tech management for the new millenium. Proceedings of ISPIM 2001 – the 13th International Conference, 286-293, ed. Tuominen, M. and Torkkeli, M., ISBN 951-764-558-9, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Sintonen, S. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2001). Establishing criteria and location decision of InfoCom companies in Finland. Challenges of innovation and tech management for the new millenium. Proceedings of ISPIM 2001 – the 13th International Conference, 337-345, ed. Tuominen, M. and Torkkeli, M., ISBN 951-764-558-9, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 17-20, 2001.

Asikainen, S.-K. and Salminen, R. (2000). The Best Paper of ANZMAC99-Conference Came from Lappeenranta University of Technology. Kuulumisia/The Magazine of Lappeenranta University of Technology. 1/2000, p. 9.

Asikainen, S.-K., Salminen, R. and Puumalainen, K. (2000). The relative explanatory value of export market orientation: Comparing across business contexts. In O'Cass, A (ed), Visionary marketing for the 21st century: Facing the challenge. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, CD ROM, 1506-1512, Gold Coast, Australia, November 28 - December 1.

Cadogan, J. (2000). The interaction between market orientation, industry environment and business success: Evidence from an exporting context. Australasian Marketing Journal, 8(1) 55-69.

Cadogan, J. (2000). Market-oriented behaviour: Comparing service-oriented with product-oriented exporting firms. Proceedings of AMA International Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 28 - July 1, 2000.

Cadogan, J. (2000). The impact of organisational factors and export leadership on propensity to export to psychologically distant markets. Marketing in the new millenium. Proceedings of the 29th EMAC Conference, CD-ROM. ed. Wierenga, B., Smidts, A. and Antonides, G., ISBN 90-5892-003-8, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 23-26, 2000.

Cadogan, J. and Nicola, P. (2000). The antecedents to export coordination: A cross-national empirical examination. Proceedings of AMA International Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 28 - July 1, 2000.

Puumalainen, K. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2000). Predicting and managing the diffusion of innovations - The challenges in telecommunications business. R&D Management Conference, Manchester, July 10-11, 2000.

Sundqvist, S. (2000). Export market orientation. Replication and extension. A study of Finnish exporters. Lappeenrannan teknillinen korkeakoulu.

Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K. and Salminen, R. (1999). The relationship between export market orientation and export performance: The moderator role of industry environment. Marketing in the third millenium. Proceedings of Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, CD-ROM. ISBN 0-7334-0572-x, Sydney, Australia, November 28 – December 2. 1999.

Asikainen, S.-K., Salminen, R. and Puumalainen, K. (1999). The performance consequences of export market-oriented behaviors: Evidence on moderator variables using cross-national data. European International Business Academy Conference, Manchester, UK, December 12 – 14, 1999.

Frank, L. and Asikainen, S.-K. (2003). The effect of human development and technology achievement on the diffusion of wireless communications. Forthcoming in Hosni, Y. (Ed.) Internet Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for Developed and Developing Regions of the World. Elsevier Science.

Frank, L., Asikainen, S.-K., Puumalainen, K. and Pitkänen, S. (2002). Forecasting the critical mass of wireless communications. The 22nd International Symposium on Forecasting, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 23-26, 2002.

Frank, L., Puumalainen, K., Asikainen, S.-K. and Väätänen, J. (2002). The diffusion of mobile communications in Russia – A regional approach. The Global Business and Technology Association Conference, Rome, Italy, June 25-29, 2002.