Value-Added Services in Mobile Commerce: An Analytical Framework and Empirical Findings from a National Consumer Survey Export

@article{citeulike:3638256, abstract = {Although little is known about consumers' attitudes towards wireless marketing channels, many organizations are today making considerable investments to take advantage of the new business possibilities offered by wireless technologies - encouraged by optimistic, yet contradictory forecast on the future volume of m-commerce. This paper highlights the importance of setting out from the consumer perspective when developing m-commerce strategies, proposing an analytical framework that can be used to assess whether, and in what ways, specific mobile services are likely to offer added value for wireless Internet users. The paper reports on a national consumer survey conducted to investigate the Finnish consumers' willingness to use a number of initial mobile services, and to investigate whether consumers recognize the value offered by these applications. The results indicate a rather low willingness to use mobile services in general, but an exceptionally high willingness to use certain applications. The results do not, however, support the supposition that m-commerce is likely to increase the overall volume of Internet commerce significantly by penetrating into untapped markets (non-PC users).}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Anckar, B. and D'Incau, D.}, citeulike-article-id = {3638256}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994012}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994012}, doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2002.994012}, journal = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, keywords = {consumer, mobile, value}, posted-at = {2008-11-21 07:29:55}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Value-Added Services in Mobile Commerce: An Analytical Framework and Empirical Findings from a National Consumer Survey}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994012}, volume = {3}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3638256 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3638256 N2 - Although little is known about consumers' attitudes towards wireless marketing channels, many organizations are today making considerable investments to take advantage of the new business possibilities offered by wireless technologies - encouraged by optimistic, yet contradictory forecast on the future volume of m-commerce. This paper highlights the importance of setting out from the consumer perspective when developing m-commerce strategies, proposing an analytical framework that can be used to assess whether, and in what ways, specific mobile services are likely to offer added value for wireless Internet users. The paper reports on a national consumer survey conducted to investigate the Finnish consumers' willingness to use a number of initial mobile services, and to investigate whether consumers recognize the value offered by these applications. The results indicate a rather low willingness to use mobile services in general, but an exceptionally high willingness to use certain applications. The results do not, however, support the supposition that m-commerce is likely to increase the overall volume of Internet commerce significantly by penetrating into untapped markets (non-PC users). JF - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA TI - Value-Added Services in Mobile Commerce: An Analytical Framework and Empirical Findings from a National Consumer Survey PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 3 KW - consumer KW - mobile KW - value AU - Anckar, B AU - D'Incau, D PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994012 ER -