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Behavior or culture? Investigating the use of cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce across the USA and China

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  • Matteo Cristofaro
  • Pier Luigi Giardino
  • Sanjay Misra
  • Quoc Trung Pham
  • Hai Hiep Phan

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Purpose - This paper claims to identify the behavioral and cultural features that push to use, or not, cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce. Indeed, despite the use of cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce spreading worldwide at a fast and growing pace, there are supporters and detractors among their users. The analysis of what distinguish these two groups of users is fundamental for understanding their different intention to use cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce. Design/methodology/approach - A survey has been administered to 2,532 cryptocurrencies’ users across the USA and China, collecting data on their behavioral predispositions and cultural features. Results were then analyzed through structured equation modeling. Findings - Results showed that while attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and herding behavior have a positive impact on the intention to use cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce, financial literacy has no influence. Cultural dimensions amplified or reduced the discovered relationships and caused different effects: positive for the USA and negative for China when considering illegal attitude and perceived risk. Originality/value - Theory of planned behavior, financial behavior and cultural factors can, all together, represent a useful framework for envisioning the behavior of users in adopting cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce purposes through a test of all its elements. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study considering behavior and cultural variables on the intention to use cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce as well as being the largest carried out, in terms of sample, on the cryptocurrency topic.

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  • Matteo Cristofaro & Pier Luigi Giardino & Sanjay Misra & Quoc Trung Pham & Hai Hiep Phan, 2022. "Behavior or culture? Investigating the use of cryptocurrencies for electronic commerce across the USA and China," Management Research Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 46(3), pages 340-368, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:mrrpps:mrr-06-2021-0493
    DOI: 10.1108/MRR-06-2021-0493
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