List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Problem Definition and Motivations
1.3 Research Purpose and Scientific Contribution
1.3.1 Research Purpose and Significances
1.3.2 Scientific and Theoretical Contributions
1.4 Research Objectives and Questions
1.4.1 Research Objectives
1.4.2 Research Questions
1.5 Literature Review
1.5.1 WeChat wallet in the information Technology
1.5.2 Acceptance of WeChat payment among the consumers
1.5.3 Customer experience in using the WeChat wallet Payment
1.5.4 Motivation drives WeChat wallet usage behavior
1.6 Review on the Technological Acceptance Model
1.6.1 Reviews of TAM Related work
1.6.2 Extension of TAM related work
1.6.3 Application of TAM related work
1.7 Organization of the thesis
Chapter 2 Theoretical framework
2.1 Theoretical Research basis
2.1.1 The Innovation Diffusion Theory
2.1.2 Expectation Confirmation Model
2.1.3 Technology Acceptance Model
2.2 Adoption rate of Technology Acceptance Model
2.2.1 WeChat wallet adoption in South Africa
2.2.2 Research framework
2.2.3 WeChat wallet Technology perceptions by users
2.3 The gap between WeChat in China and WeChat in South Africa
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Research instrument and measurement
3.3 Data Collection
3.4 Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Analysis
3.4.1 Model measurement analysis
3.4.2 Constructs reliability and validity
3.4.3 Common method bias test
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Consumers’ willingness to accept and use WeChat Wallet P2P service in South Africa
4.1 Theoretical Model and Hypotheses Development
4.1.1 Relationship between Security and Privacy concern
4.1.2 Influence of Trust of WeChat payment on Privacy concern
4.1.3 Direct relationship between Trust and P2P Intention to transaction
4.1.4 Perceived ease-of-use (PEOU) and Relative Advantages
4.1.5 Perceived Privacy concerns and behavioral Intension to P2P transaction
4.1.6 Perceived relative advantage and P2P intension to Transaction
4.2 Results and findings
4.2.1 Results
4.2.2 Findings
4.3 Research Contributions
4.3.1 Theoretical Contributions
4.3.2 Limitations and Future Directions
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Consumers’ Acceptance Intentions to use SNAPnSAVE Application in South Africa
5.1 Theoretical model
5.2 Hypotheses formulation
5.2.1 Direct effect between perceived Trust of application and risk
5.2.2 Influence of Trust on Developers reputation
5.2.3 Perceived risk on the intension to use SNAPnSAVE
5.2.4 Developer’s reputation perception on Intention to SNAPnSAVE
5.3 Result and findings
5.3.1 Results
5.3.2 Findings
5.4 Contributions
5.4.1Theoretical Contribution and Practical implications
5.4.2 Limitations and Recommendations
5.5 Summary
Conclusions
参考文献
Appendices
Papers published in the period of Ph.D. education
声明
致谢
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