Self-Service Technologies and e-Services Risks in Social Commerce Era

Social commerce as a subset of e-commerce has been emerged in part due to the popularity of social networking sites. Social commerce brings new challenges to marketing activities. And social commerce transactions like e-commerce transactions can be dangerous and cause harmful losses to personal fina...

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1. VerfasserIn: Featherman, Mauricio S. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Hajli, Nick
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2016, Band: 139, Heft: 2, Seiten: 251-269
weitere Schlagwörter:B Self-service technologies
B Electronic Commerce
B Risk assessments
B Social commerce era
B E-services
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Zusammenfassung:Social commerce as a subset of e-commerce has been emerged in part due to the popularity of social networking sites. Social commerce brings new challenges to marketing activities. And social commerce transactions like e-commerce transactions can be dangerous and cause harmful losses to personal finances, time, and information privacy. This article examines ethical issues and consumer assessments of the risks of using an e-service and how risk affects consumer evaluations and usage of Internet-based services and self-service technologies. Results from two surveys totaling 1024 consumers indicated that as usage risk concerns increased, the perceived usefulness (PU) of an e-service and intention to use it decreased. Additionally as usage risk concerns increased the effect of subjective norm on PU and intention to use an e-service strengthened, and the effect of perceived ease of use on PU and intention to use an e-service weakened. These findings advance theory and contribute to the foundation for future research aimed at improving our understanding of how consumers evaluate new e-services, new commerce systems and settings, and self-service technologies in the social commerce era.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2614-4