Determinants of consumers' intentions to use smartphones apps for flight ticket bookings. Issue 5 (26th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jeon, Hyeon-Mo; Ali, Faizan; Lee, Shin-Woo
• Is Part Of: Service industries journal. Volume 39:Issue 5/6(2019)
• Page Start: 385
• Page End: 402
• Publication Date: 2019-04-26
• Subjects: Technology acceptance -- UTAUT -- innovativeness -- involvement -- trust; 技术接受度 -- UTAUT 模型 -- 创新力、参与度、感知信任; Service industries -- Periodicals; Service industries -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 338.4
• DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2018.1437908
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-2069

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study examines customers' adoption and acceptance of smartphone apps to book their flight tickets. By integrating customers' innovativeness, involvement and perceived trust as additional variables, this study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and proposes a theoretical model that includes seven explanatory variables of the customers' behavioural intentions: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, customers' innovativeness, customers' involvement and perceived trust. Data were collected from 369 customers who had booked their flight tickets via smartphone apps and was further analysed by employing partial least squares (PLS). Findings suggest that performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, customer innovativeness and perceived trust are positive and significant determinants of customers' intentions to book their flight tickets on smartphone apps. Accordingly, several important implications for academics and industry decision makers are formulated.