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Future of Mobile Commerce: An Exploratory Study on Factors affecting Mobile Users’ Behaviour Intention

Future of Mobile Commerce: An Exploratory Study on Factors affecting Mobile Users’ Behaviour Intention

Arshan Bhullar
School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

Pushpinder Singh Gill
School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2019.4.1-021

Received on February 11, 2018
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Accepted on August 16, 2018

Abstract

Mobile commerce (M-commerce) being the subset of e-commerce, signifies a new field of business opportunity. The future of mobile commerce depends on how the mobile users’ intend to adopt this new technology induced business model. With the success of e-commerce in India, there is a huge potential for m-commerce growth. As m-commerce technologies grow and mature, it is the users’ experience and adoption of m-commerce that will drive its growth. The users’ acceptance of m-commerce depends upon various factors, which influence his/her behaviour towards m-commerce. The current research is an effort to identify such antecedents that affects behavioural intention of mobile users towards m-commerce. A survey was conducted among 150 internet mobile users in Chandigarh city using structured self-administered questionnaire to identify such factors. The results show that perceived enjoyment and perceived usefulness are the most important factors followed by trust and perceived cost, which affects mobile users’ behaviour intention to use m-commerce. Perceived ease of use and social influence was not found to have significant influence on mobile users’ behaviour intention. The findings of this research show strong empirical base for all marketers and strategists who are looking to take full advantage of the strength of m-commerce.

Keywords- Behaviour intention, Mobile commerce, Mobile users, User adoption.

Citation

Bhullar, A., & Gill, P. S. (2019). Future of Mobile Commerce: An Exploratory Study on Factors affecting Mobile Users’ Behaviour Intention. International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 4(1), 245-258. https://dx.doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2019.4.1-021.