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Contractor, Noshir S. Kielmeyer, Gregory Mark 2015-09-28T16:04:48Z 2015-09-28T16:04:48Z 10000-01-01 2003 2003 This dissertation investigated three factors related to discontinuance of innovations: egocentric social network characteristics, innovation attributes, and adopter demographics/use patterns. Discontinuance, the post-adoption rejection of an innovation, is among the least frequently investigated aspects of diffusion of innovations theory (Parthasarathy & Bhattacherjee, 1998; Rogers, 1995). The analysis identified three categories of post-adoption behavior: continued adoption, retraction discontinuance (the combination of disenchantment and replacement discontinuance), and a new theoretic construct, completion discontinuance, a phenomenon that occurs when adopters terminate their use of an innovation after its purpose has been fulfilled. Data were collected via postal mail survey from 299 users of an innovative educational technology product designed for home school families. Using multinomial logistic regression, 13 hypotheses were tested. Among an array of 24 variables, six predictors of post-adoption behavior were statistically significant: behavior of alters in the social network, attitudes of alters in the social network, relative advantage, observability, number of elementary age children, and tenure with the innovation. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:04:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3111557.pdf: 8003065 bytes, checksum: 39fbc858646d372b816abc9cb4ac3584 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88795 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 186 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87514 (MiAaPQ)AAI3111557 eng Sociology, Theory and Methods Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior text Speech Communication Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.