Mobile Services in Hubei: Adoption Model and Empirical Analysis

Authors

Mingsong Mao, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wu Han ,ChinaFollow
Jinlong Zhang, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wu Han ,ChinaFollow
Yuqing Liu, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wu Han ,ChinaFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Mobile Commerce has developed rapidly in China with the characters of ubiquity, location relevance, convenience and personalization. The researches on technology, value chain, business models, user adoption have become a hot topic among academics.

Based on the classical Davis’ TAM theory and the expansions of it, and the predecessors' research on perceived enjoyment and perceived cost, this study builds an adoption model of Mobile value-added services in Hubei Province. In the variety of individual mobile value-added business, four most commonly used services are extracted in this study ,including Mobile Instant Message, Multimedia Messaging Service, WAP Web browse and Multi-media Downloads to represent the overall situation.

According to the result of empirical analysis based on valid data of questionnaires, perceived enjoyment and perceived cost are the most influential factors. Six of the seven hypotheses in this study are verified.

Recommended Citation

Mao, Mingsong; Zhang, Jinlong; and Liu, Yuqing, "Mobile Services in Hubei: Adoption Model and Empirical Analysis" (2009). ICEB 2009 Proceedings (Macau, SAR China). 116.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2009/116