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Buyer behavior · Empirical comparative studies testing a model of mobile-service intention across four services.

Intentions to Use Mobile Services: Antecedents and Cross-Service Comparisons

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · 2005

Herlaug Nysveen, Per Egil Pedersen, Helge Thorbjørnsen

Summary

The four-service empirical results supported motivational influences on intention; the relative importance of antecedents differed across services.

For your marketing

Possible founder application

Use it as a behavioral mechanism or experiment-design reference, not a direct forecast for a SaaS funnel.

Reported result

What the study found

The four-service empirical results supported motivational influences on intention; the relative importance of antecedents differed across services.

Research question

What the authors investigated

Which motivational, technology- and user-related antecedents explain intentions across mobile services?

Design

Empirical comparative studies testing a model of mobile-service intention across four services.

Sample and setting

Consumers considering/using four mobile services.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

The outcome is primarily intention and the services are mobile-specific; cross-sectional service comparisons do not identify causal onboarding effects.

Research sources

SAGE publisher abstract says the article develops and tests a model and reports empirical studies of four mobile services. Direct publisher-page retrieval was recorded on 2026-10-09; this profile uses publisher metadata/abstract and does not claim independent review of unavailable full text.

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