The social dimension of mobile commerce – Engaging customers through group purchase

Abstract

Social commerce and mobile commerce have become increasingly popular in recent years because they enhance customer’s shopping process and increase businesses’ revenue. However, the extant literature does not prescribe sufficient design guidelines for implementing social commerce in a mobile commerce context. This research draws on the idea of group purchase to inject an element of social commerce into mobile commerce. A set of mobile commerce design features is carefully contrived to support group purchase in a process that maximizes social interaction among customers and their shopping partners. This could potentially increase user engagement with the mobile commerce application and encourage customer loyalty and repeated purchase.