This work is of theoretical and practical importance, that is, generation of new knowledge associated with mobile commerce adoption in terms of security concerns and trust which will help not only future researchers but also e-businesses. Despite the fact researchers have examined the adoption of m-commerce in a holistic way, the author found there was no research focusing solely and in-depth on the determinants of trust and perceived risk. The problem was to examine how the above determinants affect the intention to adopt m-commerce. The objects are mobile commerce, security concerns and trust. The purpose of this study is twofold, namely, empirical and explanatory. As for the objectives, it was necessary to review the literature, propose a research model, analyze the results, and verify or reject the proposed hypotheses. When it comes to the hypotheses, there was a test on whether trust, perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use negatively or positively affect the constructs of the proposed model. The author used theoretical and empirical collection methods. As for the theoretical ones, analogy, generalization and modeling methods were used. Concerning the empirical ones, due to the fact that quantitative approach was chosen, a survey instrument, that is, questionnaire was used. After the results had been collected, SPSS 22 was used to perform descriptive data analysis of Likert summative scales. At last, the results along with the research limitations... [to full text] / Šio darbo teorinė ir praktinė svarba yra naujų žinių, susijusių su saugumo ir pasitikėjimo problemų sprendimais mobilios komercijos kontekste, kūrimas kuris pasitarnaus ne tik mokslinei bendruomenei, bet ir e-verslui. Nepaisant to, jog mobilios komercijos įsisavinimas plačiai analizuotas holistiniu požiūriu, magistrinio darbo autorius nerado atliktų išsamių tyrimų išsamiau aptariančių pasitikėjimo ir saugumo veiksnių poveikio mobilios komercijos kontekste. Darbo problema formuluojama, kaip patikimumo ir saugumo veiksniai daro įtaką mobilios komercijos įsisavinimui. Tiriamieji objektai yra mobili komercija, saugumas ir patikimumas. Šio tyrimo tikslas yra dvejopas: empirinis ir aiškinamasis. Siekiant tyrimo tikslo, buvo išstudijuota literatūra, pasiūlytas mokslinio tyrimo modelis, išanalizuoti rezultatai ir įvertintos suformuluotos hipotezės. Mokslinio tyrimo eigoje autorius panaudojo teorinius ir empirinius duomenų analizės ir rinkimo metodus. Teorinėje dalyje buvo panaudoti panašumo, apibendrinimo ir modeliavimo metodai. Empirinėje dalyje įgyvendintas kiekybinis tyrimas, duomenys renkami apklausos būdu struktūruoto klausimyno pagalba. Surinkti duomenys apdoroti SPSS aplinkoje atliekant aprašomųjų duomenų analizę pagal Likerto suminių vertinimo skales. Galutinis šio tyrimo tikslas buvo patikrinti suformuluotas hipotezes. Kalbant apie išvadas, privatumo rizikos suvokimas, mobilių mokėjimų, mobilios komercijos įstatymų ir gaunamų produktų kokybė turėjo neigiamą įtaką mobilios... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

This thesis takes the reader on an exploratory journey into the development of impulse purchasing behaviour stemming from the increased usage of web-connected smartphones. At an unprecedented rate, consumers are able to access businesses online, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, at their own convenience, without restrictions other than a connection to the World Wide Web. This mobile phenomenon has effectively pushed the commercial market to new boundaries and simultaneously created new possibilities for retailers to reach out to consumers by providing seamless and innovative marketing solutions on portable devices to a fast-growing market segment. This emergent technology and the trends it brings with it, demands special attention to the analysis of consumer behaviourism. As of date, academia has put relatively little emphasis on the evolution of impulse purchasing behaviour as a product of smartphone usage. In this paper, the authors investigate the attitude of local consumers towards so-called ‘push notifications’, whose purpose is to stimulate an impulsive behaviour in the smartphone user. The results of this study show that multiple factors in relation to push notifications on smartphones play an important part in shaping the attitude of consumers and furthermore can elicit impulse buying behaviour. These factors often bridge each other and are at times mutually dependent.

In the last few years the demand for organic products has increased rapidly, resulting in a strong growth of the organic industry worldwide. Organic certification is used globally to guarantee that organic labelled producers follow the principles and standards of organic agriculture set by international and national organic certification bodies. Currently the lengthy and complex process of organic certification is entirely paper based, requires organic primary producers to have access to the certifying body, and involves precise data capture and transfer over a long period of time. The paper based organic certification process has some significant disadvantages such as being time-consuming, error-prone (particularly transcription errors) and complex. Any improvement of the paper based organic paper certification process can lead to higher efficiency, lower costs and time savings for primary producers and certifying bodies. / Australia is a major supplier of organic produce, holding almost half of the organic farmland worldwide. However, Australia's unique geography provides challenges due to huge distances and poor rural telecommunication coverage for the sustainable agriculture sector. Up until now there has not been a software solution supporting organic primary producers in their certification process, let alone a mobile software solution. There are many farm management software solutions available but they do not take into account the specific issues in organic agriculture such as soil management, pest control, or fertilisation. / The Mobile Organic Certification (MobiCert) project was created to overcome these disadvantages by focussing on the development of a mobile information portal which can be accessed through mobile Internet using GPRS or 3G technology, thus enabling primary producers to access organic certification related information in the field using their mobile phones. / The results of the proof-of-concept MobiCert project suggest that organic primary producers can benefit from a mobile information platform to access and provide information in rural and remote areas. The benefits and acceptance of the MobiCert solution have to be affirmed in follow-on field studies incorporating other issues such as the underlying business models. / Thesis (PhDInformationTechnology)--University of South Australia, 2007.

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Abstract This study examines communication through the mobile medium in customer relationship management (hereafter mCRM). Although the academic research on mCRM is gradually evolving, there is still a lack of empirical research on this topical issue. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to begin to fill this gap by enhancing the theoretical and practical understanding of mCRM. The empirical part of the study is conducted as a qualitative case study. Seven Finnish companies utilizing the mobile medium as a communication channel in CRM were selected for the empirical analysis. Interviews, observations and personal experiences gained within those companies form the main sources of data. The main theoretical contributions of the present study to existing academic literature are as follows. First, the study proposes the conceptualization of the focal phenomenon of the study, mCRM, and further elicits the salient characteristics of it. Second, following the conceptualization, the study focuses on communication as the core of the interaction between the company and the customer via the mobile medium. Accordingly, the study sheds light on the key elements of the communication process within mCRM and its various phases. Third, the study founds a theoretical framework for mCRM; identifying the customer relationship management, mobile commerce and communication literature streams that define mCRM theoretically. Fourth, the study elaborates on the specific role of the mobile medium as a channel within CRM and highlights the ways in which it differs from all other channels within the multichannel CRM environment. Although mCRM communication has an inherent potential to benefit both company and customer, it has been utilized quite cautiously to date. This is rather surprising given that, compared to other channels, the mobile medium has an exceptional ability to reach people. In addition, greater utilization of the mobile medium could save time and money. This is because many face-to-face encounters could easily be replaced by communication through the mobile medium. The study offers guidelines on aspects ranging from the initiation of mCRM to actual communication through mCRM. Hopefully, the findings of this study will encourage managers, regardless of industry, to consider whether their company could provide added-value of any kind through the use of the mobile medium to benefit their customer relationships.