South Korean social commerce and delivery app companies have developed quickly, holding a key role in the South Korean O2O market. As of now, food delivery sales reaches around 1 trillion KRW, accounting for 10% of the South Korean delivery business. ...
South Korean social commerce and delivery app companies have developed quickly, holding a key role in the South Korean O2O market. As of now, food delivery sales reaches around 1 trillion KRW, accounting for 10% of the South Korean delivery business. The sales of delivery applications is expected to exceed 1.5 trillion KRW this year, and over 40 million users have downloaded delivery apps.
Accordingly, the study considered the delivery app service on smart phone platforms a new type of mobile communication, and conducted research on the recent fast-growing delivery applications.
The study employed technology acceptance model that is commonly used for estimating attitude and use intention toward new technology or innovative service to identify intention toward reuse of delivery applications service. Furthermore, by reviewing structural relationships among variables, it presented measures to activate the delivery app O2O service industry.
For this, variables of technology acceptance model such as perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use and those that are expected to affect intention toward reuse of delivery applications were selected: offline service quality (for food, employers, order and delivery), online service quality (usefulness, mobility, credibility, empathy), and information quality (product information, price information, service information and seller information.
For analysis, the study conducted a survey for 260 subjects, and analyzed the result using a statistics package program, SPSS 18.0. The analysis was conducted differently according to each research problem: linear regression analysis and multiple regression analysis.
As for the result of the impact of offline service quality on technology acceptance model’s perceived usefulness, factors of ‘order quality’ and ‘delivery quality’ had positive impact on perceived usefulness. On the other hand, factors of ‘food quality’ and ‘order quality’ had significant influence on perceived ease of use.
When it comes to the influence of online service quality on technology acceptance model’s perceived usefulness and ease of use, factors of ‘usefulness,’ ‘mobility’ and ‘empathy’ showed positive impact on perceived usefulness. Meanwhile, ‘mobility’ and ‘empathy’ had positive impact on perceived ease of use.
For the impact of information quality on technology acceptance model’s perceived usefulness, ‘product information quality’ and ‘service information quality’ had positive impact on technology acceptance model’s perceived usefulness. On the contrary, only ‘service information quality’ showed positive impact on perceived ease of use.
The study has significance in identifying what factors of offline service quality, online service quality and information quality in the delivery app O2O service have influence on intention toward reuse of delivery app service. The study results suggested how to improve and strengthen the operations efficiency of O2O delivery app service.
Nonetheless, the study has limitations as follows: first of all, since the study was based on insufficient samples, more various and sophisticated follow-up research are required in the future. Also, it could not come up with more precise results as the research was not conducted based on the type of delivery app device. Lastly, the study could not formalize various service of delivery apps. Follow-up studies addressing these limitations will produce more exact results.