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Extending the technology acceptance model to mobile telecommunication innovation: The existence of network externalities

✍ Scribed by Chih-Chien Wang; Shao-Kang Lo; Wenchang Fang

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 113 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1472-0817
DOI: 10.1002/cb.240

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Consumer acceptance of technological innovations is crucial to marketing new products. According to the most influential model in this area, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU) determine users' behavioural intentions to use or purchase a system or product. In the specific context of network externalities, a sense of utility that arises from the number of users (NOU) is considered as important as technology‐specific valuation. This study conducted an empirical survey to examine the effects of TAM and network externalities on the acceptance of Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), an innovation in the field of mobile telecommunications. The results confirm the effectiveness of the TAM and find that network externalities effect affects users' acceptance to this mobile innovations. Accordingly, the TAM can be applied to predict consumer's acceptance to the mobile telecommunication innovations in the presence of network externalities.