Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2008

Abstract

Ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) represents “anytime, anywhere” commerce. U-commerce can provide a high level of personalization, which can bring significant benefits to customers. However, privacy is a major concern to customers and an obstacle to the adoption of u-commerce. This research examines how personalization and context can impact customers’ privacy concerns as well as intention to adopt u-commerce applications. As u-commerce is new and emerging, we used the scenario-based approach to operationalize personalization and context in an experimental study. The experimental results show that the effects of personalization on customers’ privacy concerns and adoption intention are situation dependent.

Keywords

Personalization, privacy concerns, personalization-privacy paradox, situation dependency, adoption intention

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Areas of Excellence

Digital transformation

Publication

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volume

9

Issue

6

First Page

344

Last Page

376

ISSN

1536-9323

Identifier

10.17705/1jais.00161

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00161

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