Xinchuan Liu|Weiai Wayne Xu
Adoption of ride-sharing apps by Chinese taxi drivers and its implication for the equality and wellbeing in the sharing economy
Peking University|University of Massachusetts Amherst
adoption ridesharing apps critical survival taxi drivers mobiledriven sharing economy based survey data collected 1195 licensed taxi drivers beijing authors present integrated technology adoption model combines technology use factors perceived usefulness ease use social factors wordofmouth peer adoption subjective norms system factors socioeconomic digital inequality audience factors demographic characteristics innovative personality traits results showed adoption innate inherited socially driven adoption positively associated income access technologies innovative personality trait peer adoption wordofmouth perceived usefulness apps implications findings inequality sharing economy discussed