The development of mobile shopping is showing rapid progress both in Korea and China, focusing on smart phone, along with the popularity of mobile devices and other feasible retrieval environment. Mobile shopping industry has quite high possibility of...
The development of mobile shopping is showing rapid progress both in Korea and China, focusing on smart phone, along with the popularity of mobile devices and other feasible retrieval environment. Mobile shopping industry has quite high possibility of continuous development both in Korea and China.
The purpose of this paper is to figure out the variables affecting trust to mobile commerce and their key components. Also, this study confirms the differences between Korea and China with regards to how the variables mediate the reusing intention. The factors having effects on trust were classified by service quality and site features in the previous researches. The service quality was subdivided into information search service quality, safety security, and customized service quality. In addition, the site features were reclassified into information provision and interactivity. The hypotheses about the effects showed by the five variables on trust, and the mediating effects of trust on the reusing intention, as well as the comparative analysis between Korea and China were assumed. The analyzed results showed that the effect of the five factors is 77.3% on trust performed by Korean users of mobile commerce, and their reusing intention is 58.3%. Among which, safety security, information provision and interactivity showed significant effect on trust. These results were similar to that of Chinese. The information search SQ, safety security, customized SQ, and interactivity showed the effect of 49.2% on trust, and the trust indicated 40.7% influence on the reusing intention. For the Chinese consumers of mobile commerce, the numerical results showed that only interactivity had significant effect on trust.
The comparative results between equivalent restriction model and free model showed the selection of invariance of path coefficient by the insert of each survey for analyzing the differences between Korean group and Chinese group. According to the results, there is no difference between the process of realizing reusing intention between Korean and Chinese group. The above results can provide strategic implication to the enterprises related with mobile shopping, such as the Korean enterprises entering Chinese markets or the Chinese enterprises planning to expand their market to Korea.