Title
Understanding consumers' mobile channel continuance: an empirical investigation of two fitness mechanisms
Abstract
Retaining consumers and facilitating their continuance are crucial for mobile service providers. Based on the theories of task-technology fit TTF and use-context fit UCF, a research model that reflects the two fitness effects on consumers’ mobile channel continuance was developed and empirically tested against data collected from 358 mobile banking consumers of a national commercial bank in China. The results confirm the usefulness of the two fitness theories in explaining the mobile channel continuance and identify the concurrence effects of TTF and UCF on consumers’ mobile channel continuance. Specifically, this study found that task features and technology characteristics significantly affect TTF, which further determines mobile channel continuance. UCF was found to be an important antecedent of TTF and a significant determinant of mobile channel continuance. This study also found that perceived utilitarian and hedonic values influence mobile channel continuance directly and indirectly via UCF.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/0144929X.2014.988176
Behaviour & Information Technology - Diffusion of innovation and continuance
Keywords
Field
DocType
fitness
Continuance,Commercial bank,Computer science,Knowledge management,Mobile service,Mobile banking,Mobile channel
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
12
0144-929X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.44
36
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuiqing Yang128115.03
Yaobin Lu2103634.08
yuangao chen380.44
Sumeet Gupta4110657.47