Third Screen Communication and the Adoption of Mobile Marketing: A Malaysia Perspective

This study’s findings support Rogers’ (2003) perceived characteristics of innovation attributes that form a favourable or unfavourable attitude toward the innovation.

Abstract

This study integrates innovation characteristics of the Innovation-Diffusion Theory (IDT), perceived risk,trustworthiness, and permissibility constructs to investigate what determines user intention to adopt mobilemarketing. The proposed model in this study was empirically tested using data collected from a survey of mobileusers. The structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was used to evaluate the causal model. The researchfindings suggested that relative advantage of mobile marketing is the strongest influence in building consumers'intention decision to adopt mobile marketing. All other constructs were statistically significant in influencingbehavioural intent to adopt mobile marketing. This study's findings support Rogers' (2003) perceivedcharacteristics of innovation attributes that form a favourable or unfavourable attitude toward the innovation.