TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding users’ continuance intentions to use smart-connected sports products
AU - Song, Jaeki
AU - Kim, Junghwan
AU - Cho, Kwangmin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - The authors investigate the salient factors that influence users’ continuance intentions to use smart-connected sports products. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), they propose that three major factors—attitude, social comparison as social influence, and perceived behavioral control—significantly influence users’ continuance intentions. Smart-connected sports product users (N = 236) participated in this study. Collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) modeling. Results suggest two different attitudinal beliefs—technology-related (perceived usefulness) and fashion-related (perceived comfort) factors—of smart-connected sports products influence attitudes toward the products and that control-related factors (technical functionality and facilitating conditions) play a role in regulating users’ volitional behaviors from their intentions. The authors highlight user beliefs of smart-connected sports products based on TPB and propose a concrete, practical set of factors that practitioners might manipulate to facilitate users’ continuance intentions to use smart-connected sports products.
AB - The authors investigate the salient factors that influence users’ continuance intentions to use smart-connected sports products. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), they propose that three major factors—attitude, social comparison as social influence, and perceived behavioral control—significantly influence users’ continuance intentions. Smart-connected sports product users (N = 236) participated in this study. Collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) modeling. Results suggest two different attitudinal beliefs—technology-related (perceived usefulness) and fashion-related (perceived comfort) factors—of smart-connected sports products influence attitudes toward the products and that control-related factors (technical functionality and facilitating conditions) play a role in regulating users’ volitional behaviors from their intentions. The authors highlight user beliefs of smart-connected sports products based on TPB and propose a concrete, practical set of factors that practitioners might manipulate to facilitate users’ continuance intentions to use smart-connected sports products.
KW - Continuance intention
KW - Perceived behavioral control
KW - Smart-connected sports products
KW - Theory of planned behavior
KW - Wristband activity trackers
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U2 - 10.1016/j.smr.2017.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.smr.2017.10.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032841023
VL - 21
SP - 477
EP - 490
JO - Sport Management Review
JF - Sport Management Review
SN - 1441-3523
IS - 5
ER -