Unraveling the "paradox of the active user": Determinants of individuals' innovation with it-based work routines: Research-in-progress

As individuals become more experienced with information technologies (ITs), they become limited by well-learned behavioral routines for using an IT, which act to inhibit innovation. This "paradox of the active user" can prove problematic for organizations, which derive benefits when organizational ITs are used to their fullest potential. Thus, to advance research on individual differences and post-adoption use behaviors, this research-in-progress develops a research model examining the relationships among habit, IT mindfulness, and embeddedness of an IT-based routine on individuals' innovation with IT. Identifying factors that foster or inhibit individuals' attempts to innovate with ITs can provide actionable guidelines for designing managerial interventions to manage and maintain desired levels of user-initiated innovation in the post-adoptive context.