A study examined the attitudes of Florida business teachers toward perceived barriers to implementing the Florida competency-based business curriculum materials and also the characteristics of business teachers who would be most likely to receive and adopt curriculum innovations. During the study, a five-part questionnaire that contained questions concerning demography, perceived barriers, change orientation, innovativeness and flexibility, and attitudes toward competency-based education was administered to a random sample of full-time Florida business education teachers. The sample consisted of 151 secondary business teachers, 58 vocational and technical center business teachers, and 116 community college business teachers. The secondary business teachers saw the most barriers to implementing the curriculum. Those mentioned most frequently were lack of time and lack of clerical assistance. Included among demographic variables that were most predictive of the teacher's perception of barriers to implementing the curriculum were the type of school in which the teacher taught, the amount of inservice training received, and the amount of related work experience the teacher had. (The survey instrument is appended.) (MN)