Location
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
Start Date
12-15-2014
Description
The portability of a mobile device and the ubiquity of mobile Internet provide e-market users with more opportunities of access to e-commerce sites throughout a day. In this paper, we examine the access affordance of mobile technologies by analyzing the changes in purchase time dispersion of e-marketplace users after their adoption of mobile channel. By analyzing a large archival dataset including transactions in the mobile and online channels, we find that (1) a user’s purchase time becomes more dispersed throughout a day after the mobile channel adoption, and (2) the impact of the mobile channel adoption on the purchase time dispersion is significantly different across different user groups. These findings present strong empirical evidences of access affordance of the mobile channel and how the affordance is realized across e-market users.
Recommended Citation
Bang, Youngsok; Lee, Dongjoo; and Han, Kunsoo, "Access Affordance of Mobile Technology in e-Commerce: Change of Purchase Time Dispersion" (2014). ICIS 2014 Proceedings. 32.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/EBusiness/32
Access Affordance of Mobile Technology in e-Commerce: Change of Purchase Time Dispersion
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
The portability of a mobile device and the ubiquity of mobile Internet provide e-market users with more opportunities of access to e-commerce sites throughout a day. In this paper, we examine the access affordance of mobile technologies by analyzing the changes in purchase time dispersion of e-marketplace users after their adoption of mobile channel. By analyzing a large archival dataset including transactions in the mobile and online channels, we find that (1) a user’s purchase time becomes more dispersed throughout a day after the mobile channel adoption, and (2) the impact of the mobile channel adoption on the purchase time dispersion is significantly different across different user groups. These findings present strong empirical evidences of access affordance of the mobile channel and how the affordance is realized across e-market users.