title: Recommendations from friends anytime and anywhere: toward a model of contextual offer and consumption values.
abstract: The ubiquity and portability of mobile devices provide additional opportunities for information retrieval. People can easily access mobile applications anytime and anywhere when they need to acquire specific context-aware recommendations (contextual offer) from their friends. This study, thus, represents an initial attempt to understand users' acceptance of a mobile-based social reviews platform, where recommendations from friends can be obtained with mobile devices. Based on the consumption value theory, a theoretical model is proposed and empirically examined using survey data from 218 mobile users. The findings demonstrate that contextual offers based on users' profiles, access time, and geographic positions significantly predict their value perceptions (utilitarian, hedonic, and social), which, in turn, affect their intention to use a mobile social reviews platform. This study is also believed to provide some useful insights to both research and practice.
authors.affiliation: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Yongqiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D040421:Cell Phone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003259:Consummatory Behavior; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D017059:Models, Econometric; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011159:Population Surveillance; D060756:Social Networking; D012945:Social Values; D055815:Young Adult