Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials

The market for mobile applications (apps) has been rising rapidly because most daily activities currently involve the use of mobile applications. There is great potential for this service mode in the mobile market as it reversed the traditional business model of the mobile industry. Because there is...

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Main Author: Ibrahim, Nuradilah
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling my-utm-ep.919462021-08-09T08:46:19Z Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials 2016 Ibrahim, Nuradilah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T58.5-58.64 Information technology The market for mobile applications (apps) has been rising rapidly because most daily activities currently involve the use of mobile applications. There is great potential for this service mode in the mobile market as it reversed the traditional business model of the mobile industry. Because there is an increasing interest in mobile applications, it has created new opportunities for the mobile market. With more and more consumers around the world, the organization soon will serve to promote the application, involving consumers through apps and in-app advertising. Therefore, the user acceptance is very important in the mobile application market. This leads to the importance of studying the factors that influence the behavior intention to adopt mobile applications for the industry to develop successfully. Besides, mobile phone users have been dominated by millennials generation, from the age group of 20-24. However, there is very limited knowledge about online consumer behavior because it is a complicated socio-technical phenomenon and involves too many factors that influence the behavioral intention to adopt mobile applications (apps). The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence the behavioral intention to adopt mobile applications (apps) in among millennials in Malaysia. The conceptual framework derived from selection of related construct has been used to facilitate the data collection of this study. These constructs are performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, price value, and habit Behavioral intention has been used as indicator of the acceptance of mobile applications (apps) among millennials in Malaysia. Quantitative method using online questionnaires survey has been applied. There are seventy seven returned and usable questionnaire used in this study. The respondents to the questionnaire were consumers who used mobile apps to shop online. Lastly, the results revealed that hedonic motivation, facilitating conditions, price value, social influence and habit have significant correlation with behavioral intention. 2016 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91946/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91946/1/NuradilahIbrahimMRAZAK2016.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:132887 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
T58.5-58.64 Information technology
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
T58.5-58.64 Information technology
Ibrahim, Nuradilah
Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
description The market for mobile applications (apps) has been rising rapidly because most daily activities currently involve the use of mobile applications. There is great potential for this service mode in the mobile market as it reversed the traditional business model of the mobile industry. Because there is an increasing interest in mobile applications, it has created new opportunities for the mobile market. With more and more consumers around the world, the organization soon will serve to promote the application, involving consumers through apps and in-app advertising. Therefore, the user acceptance is very important in the mobile application market. This leads to the importance of studying the factors that influence the behavior intention to adopt mobile applications for the industry to develop successfully. Besides, mobile phone users have been dominated by millennials generation, from the age group of 20-24. However, there is very limited knowledge about online consumer behavior because it is a complicated socio-technical phenomenon and involves too many factors that influence the behavioral intention to adopt mobile applications (apps). The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence the behavioral intention to adopt mobile applications (apps) in among millennials in Malaysia. The conceptual framework derived from selection of related construct has been used to facilitate the data collection of this study. These constructs are performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, price value, and habit Behavioral intention has been used as indicator of the acceptance of mobile applications (apps) among millennials in Malaysia. Quantitative method using online questionnaires survey has been applied. There are seventy seven returned and usable questionnaire used in this study. The respondents to the questionnaire were consumers who used mobile apps to shop online. Lastly, the results revealed that hedonic motivation, facilitating conditions, price value, social influence and habit have significant correlation with behavioral intention.
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author Ibrahim, Nuradilah
author_facet Ibrahim, Nuradilah
author_sort Ibrahim, Nuradilah
title Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
title_short Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
title_full Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
title_fullStr Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
title_sort factors influencing the acceptance of mobile application among millennials
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
granting_department Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
publishDate 2016
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91946/1/NuradilahIbrahimMRAZAK2016.pdf
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