Sääksjärvi, Maria; Gill, Tripat; Hultink, Erik Jan - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 20 (2017) 3, pp. 350-371
preannouncements about these products. Design/methodology/approach Building on the seminal work by Rogers (2003) on the innovation … links rumors to preannouncements, and shows that rumors set expectations that become confirmed or disconfirmed by … preannouncements. The results show that the curiosity evoked by the rumor has a significant impact on purchase intentions toward the …