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An Empirical Study on Consumer's Continuous Usage Intention of Smartphone Services in China

중국 스마트폰 서비스의 지속적 사용의도에 관한 실증연구

  • Chen, Yan (Dept. Techno-Management, Dongguk University) ;
  • Moon, Taesoo (Dept. Business Administration, Dongguk University)
  • Received : 2014.11.24
  • Accepted : 2015.03.16
  • Published : 2015.03.31
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Abstract

With the active smartphones user exceeding 500 million by the end of 2014, China has now become the largest smartphone market in the world. Smartphone companies provide variety of information through a range of applications, such as communications, entertainment, games, and so on. There were many studies conducted about the user acceptance and continuous intention of mobile service. However, it is still not quite clear what factors attract people to reuse smartphone in China. This paper examines the continuous intention of smartphone about Chinese customers. This study incorporates perceived enjoyment as a additional construct into a extended TAM model, by integrating a hedonic service of smartphone. We propose a research model that reflects the individual characteristics and usage contexts of smartphone, such as innovativeness, social influence, and service quality, and analyze the structural relationship between the main variables through empirical study. This study empirically investigated a research model and conducted a survey of smartphone service users in China. Our study proved that perceived enjoyment has a positive influence on continuous intention to use smartphone services. This paper provides the managers an insight that smartphone companies should take more consideration on how to provide more enjoyable service and attract customers to reuse their services.

중국은 2014년 말 스마트폰 사용자들이 5억 명을 넘어서면서 전 세계적으로 가장 큰 스마트폰 시장이 되었다. 스마트폰 제조기업은 인터넷 통신과 엔터테인먼트, 게임과 같은 응용프로그램을 통해 다양한 정보서비스를 제공하고 있다. 최근 모바일 서비스의 사용자 수용의도와 지속적인 사용의도에 관한 연구들이 많이 진행되었으나, 중국인들의 스마트폰 사용에 대해서는 명확히 규명된 것이 별로 없다. 본 연구는 중국 스마트폰 소비자들의 지속적인 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 도출하고, 그 영향관계를 규명하고자 한다. 이를 위해 스마트폰의 쾌락적 서비스와 확장된 TAM모형, 그리고 인지된 즐거움을 연구변수로 구성하여 연구모형을 제안한다. 본 연구는 개인적 특성을 고려한 혁신성, 사회적 영향, 서비스 품질을 반영한 연구모형을 구성하고 실증적 연구를 통해 주요 변수들간의 구조적 관계를 분석하였다. 중국의 스마트폰 서비스 사용자를 대상으로 설문조사를 수행한 결과, 인지된 유용성과 인지된 즐거움은 스마트폰 서비스의 지속적인 사용의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 스마트폰 서비스의 재사용과 소비자를 유지하고 획득하기 위한 방법을 제안하고 실용적 유용성과 쾌락적 즐거움을 고려한 서비스 제공의 중요성을 제안하고 있다.

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