The impact of context and incentives on mobile service adoption

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-381

  Xu, Zhengchuan ^a,c   Yuan, Yufei ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Context; Incentives; M commerce adoption; Mobile commerce adoption; Mobile communication; Taxi dispatching

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; INCENTIVES; M-COMMERCE ADOPTION; MOBILE COMMERCE ADOPTION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; TAXI DISPATCHING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 62449313617     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2009.023677     Document Type: Article

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