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http://dx.doi.org/10.5859/KAIS.2015.24.1.95

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

Chen, Yan (Dept. Techno-Management, Dongguk University)
Moon, Taesoo (Dept. Business Administration, Dongguk University)
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The Journal of Information Systems / v.24, no.1, 2015 , pp. 95-117 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Smartphone Services; Hedonic Service; Continue to use; Innovativeness; Social influence; Service quality; Perceived usefulness; Perceived enjoyment;
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