TY - JOUR
T1 - Benefit-confirmation model for post-adoption behavior of mobile instant messaging applications
T2 - A comparative analysis of KakaoTalk and Joyn in Korea
AU - Oghuma, Apollos Patricks
AU - Chang, Younghoon
AU - Libaque-Saenz, Christian Fernando
AU - Park, Myeong Cheol
AU - Rho, Jae Jeung
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), Korea, under the Communication Policy Research Center (CPRC) support program ( IITP-2015-H8201-15-1003 ) supervised by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Facilitated by advancement in technology, today, usage of mobile instant messaging (MIM) applications is a dominant global phenomenon that permeates every part of the world. This phenomenon results in drastic shift in customer attitude and behavior on how to connect and interact with others. MIM service has been replacing telecommunications operators (telcos) short message service, and because third-party MIM applications are those gaining meaningful traction, this trend is threatening the telecommunications industry as it leads to losses in telcos̈ revenues. To cope with this onslaught of third-party MIM applications, telcos launched Joyn, their own MIM application. However, despite their similar technical characteristics, Joyn still lacks user traction. It is critical, therefore, to understand the antecedents to continuance use intention of MIM applications in both contexts. Based on the expanded expectation-confirmation model (ECM), the present research develops a benefit-confirmation model that examines the antecedents to continuance intention to use MIM applications, while provides a comparative analysis of two popular MIM applications in Korea - KakaoTalk (third-party) and Joyn (telcos). A total of 467 data point were collected online. The structural equation modeling results of the total sample provide support for ECM-related hypotheses as well as for significant effects of net benefits and network benefits on continuance intention to use MIM applications, while the comparative analysis suggests that KakaoTalks prominent features are hedonic in nature, whereas, Joyńs main attribute is its interoperability. The implications of these findings are discussed.
AB - Facilitated by advancement in technology, today, usage of mobile instant messaging (MIM) applications is a dominant global phenomenon that permeates every part of the world. This phenomenon results in drastic shift in customer attitude and behavior on how to connect and interact with others. MIM service has been replacing telecommunications operators (telcos) short message service, and because third-party MIM applications are those gaining meaningful traction, this trend is threatening the telecommunications industry as it leads to losses in telcos̈ revenues. To cope with this onslaught of third-party MIM applications, telcos launched Joyn, their own MIM application. However, despite their similar technical characteristics, Joyn still lacks user traction. It is critical, therefore, to understand the antecedents to continuance use intention of MIM applications in both contexts. Based on the expanded expectation-confirmation model (ECM), the present research develops a benefit-confirmation model that examines the antecedents to continuance intention to use MIM applications, while provides a comparative analysis of two popular MIM applications in Korea - KakaoTalk (third-party) and Joyn (telcos). A total of 467 data point were collected online. The structural equation modeling results of the total sample provide support for ECM-related hypotheses as well as for significant effects of net benefits and network benefits on continuance intention to use MIM applications, while the comparative analysis suggests that KakaoTalks prominent features are hedonic in nature, whereas, Joyńs main attribute is its interoperability. The implications of these findings are discussed.
KW - Continuance usage intention
KW - Expectation-confirmation model
KW - Joyn
KW - KakaoTalk
KW - Mobile instant messaging applications
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U2 - 10.1016/j.telpol.2015.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.telpol.2015.07.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84942829063
SN - 0308-5961
VL - 39
SP - 658
EP - 677
JO - Telecommunications Policy
JF - Telecommunications Policy
IS - 8
ER -