Analysis of Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Search through the Internet and e-Commerce

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Recently, increasingly many papers have been published concerning impact of mobile devices on e-commerce. All of these papers are either empirical, qualitative or static in their analytical nature and no study exists in the literature for capturing behavioral differences between e-commerce and m-commerce based on a mathematical stochastic model. The purpose of this study is to develop and analyze a mathematical model for comparing e-commerce via the traditional PC access only with m-commerce which accommodates both the traditional PC access and the mobile access. The distribution of the number of products purchased by time t and the distribution of the time required for selling K products are derived explicitly, enabling one to assess the impact of mobile devices on e-businesses. Numerical examples are given for illustrating behavioral differences between m-commerce consumers and traditional e-commerce consumers.