Retaining users and facilitating continuance usage are crucial to the success of mobile social network services (SNS). This research examines the continuance usage of mobile SNS in China by integrating both the perspectives of social influence and privacy concern. Social influence includes three processes: compliance, identification and internalization, which are respectively represented by sub...

Personality traits have rarely been used to discussed the phenomenon under information systems context, especially not in the emerging topic of IS continued usage. IS continuance gained prominence because it is seem as the key indicator to the successfulness of information systems. This study explores and proposed a model to connect personality traits to IS continued usage through the introduct...

Retaining users and facilitating their continuance usage are critical for mobile Internet service providers. From the perspective of resistance to change, this research identified the factors affecting continuance usage of mobile services. We collected data among mobile Internet users and conducted data analysis with structural equation modeling. The results indicated that trust and switching c...

This study develops and tests an integrated model that explains information systems usage at adoption and post-adoption stages. Integrating the theory of planned behavior with the IS continuance model, this research provides insights into the complementary nature of the two theories in explaining IS usage over time. In addition, the integrated model takes into consideration the “habit” construc...

Article history: Received 25 November 2011 Available online 11 March 2012 Using a one-year longitudinal study of four components of organizational commitment (affective, normative, continuance–sacrifices, and continuance–alternatives) on a sample of employees frommultiple organizations (N=220), we examined the relationships of employee Big-Five personality traits to employee commitment componen...

IS post-adoption behavior has received significant attention in prior studies. Evidence suggests that a set of factors entice individuals’ continuance usage toward an information technology product. However traditional models of IT continuance usage generally do not account for product-level factors (e.g. brand influence) and mainly focus on predicting technology-level behavioral intention, and...

This research proposal describes a project to investigate mobile commerce continuance in China and in the U.S., with a specific aim to explore the influence of national culture on mobile shopping continuance. For this purpose, a mobile shopping continuance model is developed based on prior theories. An espoused cultural values-based approach by Srite and Karahanna [19] will be deployed to study...

A positive relationship between employee engagement and affective commitment is already documented in the literature. However, we do not adequately know how engagement is associated with continuance and normative commitment. Using survey methodology we find that while engagement has a non-significant positive association with continuance commitment; it has a positive association with normative ...

By integrating the uses and gratifications theory and habit theory, this study develops a theoretical model to explore factors affecting continuance intention of mobile social networking service. 218 valid data were collected in China. The empirical results show that, cognitive need and affective need have significant impacts on continuance intention. In addition, habit is significantly determi...

Given the extensive role of IS in everyday life and the increasing presence of women in IS users, understanding gender differences in individual technology continuance usage decisions is an important issue. Nevertheless, much of the large body of research on gender differences has just examined mean differences between women and men in terms of abilities, usage habit, and traits. Even though lo...