Developing a Valid and Reliable Measure of Product Innovativeness for Entrepreneurship Research

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Ganbaatar, Batkhuyag
Douglas, Evan J
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2019
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Product innovativeness is central to entrepreneurship, but extant measures are problematic for entrepreneurship research because they tend to be firm‐level and/or subjective and lack validity and reliability for new and small firms. We develop a new measure of product innovativeness that is direct, objective, contemporary, and cardinal that provides entrepreneurship researchers with a reliable measure of innovativeness at the product level that will facilitate consistent measurement of this construct in cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies of product innovation. The new measure is developed as a formative measurement model using composite indicators that are objectively identified by observation of the new product and can be used to compare rival products or a particular firm's product innovations over time.

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Journal of Small Business Management

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Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

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