Consumer acceptance of the mobile Internet

Joerg Koenigstorfer () and Andrea Groeppel-Klein ()

Marketing Letters, 2012, vol. 23, issue 4, 917-928

Abstract: Technological innovations are often designed to help consumers save time. However, some consumers refuse to use innovations and downgrade their usability with increasing usage time. The purpose of this research is to find out how consumers’ personality in younger (vs. older) men (vs. women) affects behavioral choices of the mobile Internet, as an example of new technology, and how usage time affects perceived ease of use of innovative (vs. established) media. The study shows that innovativeness, low desire for social contact, and technology optimism, in interaction with demographics, determine whether consumers choose mobile Internet services over substitutes. Job-related dependency on technology and gender directly affect choice behavior. The study reveals that ease of use is downgraded as more time is spent using the mobile Internet, whereas there is no such relation for established media. The results help explain overoptimistic forecasts that were made in the field of technology acceptance. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: Acceptance; Adoption; Mobile commerce; Mobile Internet services; Ubiquity; Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s11002-012-9206-1

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