Social Influence Effect on Consumers’ Intention to Adopt Mobile Banking Services

Author(s):  
Emílio José Montero Arruda Filho ◽  
Aline Cristina Lobo Nogueira ◽  
Everaldo Marcelo Souza da Costa
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyoo Barry Hong

Although mobile banking provides cost-saving opportunities as well as convenient banking experience for customers, today's banks still face challenges when deploying the technology because a good number of customers are reluctant to use mobile banking for personal reasons. This article is an empirical investigation of the determinants of the intention to use mobile banking services. The determinants are grouped into two categories including personal factors and social influence factors. The authors conducted an empirical analysis using 751 survey responses collected from present users of mobile banking services. The results of the analysis reveal that all the personal factors have positive relationships with the intention to use mobile banking services. On the other hand, it was found that of the social influence factors, perceived herding behavior has a significantly positive relationship with the intention to use mobile banking services, whereas subjective norm is not significantly related to the intention. The authors provide practical as well as academic implications of the research findings.


Author(s):  
Abdul Kabeer Kazi ◽  
Mohammad Adeel Mannan

In this research paper we investigated the determinants likely to influence the adoption of mobile banking services, with a special focus on under banked/unbanked low-income population of Pakistan. The adoption of mobile banking services has been a strategic goal, both for banks and telcos. For this purpose, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used, with additional determinants of perceived risk and social influence. Data was collected by surveying 372 respondents from the two largest cities (Karachi and Hyderabad) of the province Sindh, in Pakistan using judgement sampling method. This study empirically concluded that consumers’ intention to adopt mobile banking services was significantly influenced by social influence, perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use. The most significant positive impact was of social influence on consumers’ intention to adopt mobile banking services. The paper concluded with discussion on results, and several business implications for the banking industry of Pakistan.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Phan Dai Thich

This study aims to examine the factors influencing consumers' behavior intention to adopt mobile banking apps. The research uses the TAM model with additional variables such as social influence and perceived risk to evaluate how these factors impact the behavior intention of young customers toward adopting mobile banking services. PLS-SEM was used as the main research method. The findings from this paper reaffirmed that perceived usefulness and social influence are the most influential factor in behavior intention, but perceived ease of use and perceived risk showed insignificant impacts on young consumers' behavior intention in Vietnam. This paper also found that perceived ease of use had no direct impact on behavior intention but an indirect impact through facilitating perceived usefulness. This subject makes a practical and academic contribution in the context of a developing country where is lacking research in mobile banking apps.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 997-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Makanyeza

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of consumers’ intention to adopt mobile banking services in Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 232 bank customers was conducted in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, using a structured questionnaire with Likert-type questions. Customers were randomly intercepted as they walked out of five major banks. Structural equation modelling, independent-samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to test research hypotheses. Findings The study found that perceived usefulness, perceived self-efficacy, social influence, relative advantage and perceived compatibility all have a positive effect, whilst perceived risk has a negative effect on behavioural intention to adopt mobile banking services in Zimbabwe. Perceived ease of use, facilitating conditions, perceived complexity, perceived trialability, awareness-knowledge and demographic factors (gender, age, education and income) did not significantly influence behavioural intention to adopt mobile banking. Perceived ease of use was found to positively influence perceived usefulness, while perceived self-efficacy was found to have a positive effect on perceived ease of use. Behavioural intention was found to positively influence usage of mobile banking services in Zimbabwe. Research limitations/implications Data were collected from bank customers in Chinhoyi, one of the emerging towns in Zimbabwe. Future research should be expanded to include other major cities in Zimbabwe and other countries. More similar studies should be conducted to test the factors identified in literature in different contexts and markets and on other innovations. Practical implications The study advises banks to pay particular attention to perceived usefulness, perceived self-efficacy, social influence, relative advantage, perceived compatibility and perceived risk when designing new mobile banking services. Originality/value There is not a unified position regarding factors influencing mobile banking adoption. Factors vary with contexts, markets, time and types of innovations. The study tested some major factors identified in literature in the context of Zimbabwe.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Pinigas Mbengo ◽  
Maxwell A. Phiri

The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss the determinants that inhibit mobile banking adoption by the rural unbanked in Zimbabwe. The researchers conducted an extensive literature search. The references consulted were categorically analysed and articles were considered to compile the findings of this paper. The study provides a contribution to practice by providing a better understanding of issues associated with mobile banking diffusion mechanisms that aid the adoption of mobile banking systems. The main findings of the research indicate that there is a slow and often annoying adoption of mobile banking within Zimbabwe by the rural unbanked due to a considerable number of inhibitive factors. This research reveals the nature of adoption that may reliably inform service providers about strategies to consider when appealing to this market segment. The study also shows that mobile banking adoption cannot ignore the use of marketing oriented factors in order to avoid the assumption of being myopic by considering only the product based variables to assess behavioural intention to adopt mobile banking services as identified in Technology Acceptance Model. However, the literature review also reveals that there are virtually no substantive theoretical researches which adequately extend the TAM using all the marketing mix elements. Therefore Technology Acceptance Model is extended using the marketing mix elements to better predict the behavioural intention to adopt mobile banking by the rural unbanked. This research, having studied the behaviour of the rural unbanked, argues that mobile banking service providers are likely to develop tailor-made integrated marketing mix strategies in order to financially include this market segment. The paper recommends for future research to use the additional marketing mix elements of physical evidence, processes and people in the adoption of mobile banking services by the rural unbanked.


SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402093291
Author(s):  
James Agyei ◽  
Shaorong Sun ◽  
Eugene Abrokwah ◽  
Emmanuel Kofi Penney ◽  
Richmond Ofori-Boafo

A number of studies have been conducted on the salient factors that influence consumers’ intention to adopt mobile banking services. However, none of these studies has explored the impact of personality traits on consumers’ intention to adopt mobile banking services. This study investigates the impact of personality traits on users’ intention to adopt mobile banking. Data gathered from 482 mobile banking users in Ghana via a convenience sampling technique using a questionnaire survey were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results show that agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to new experience significantly impact users’ intention to adopt mobile banking through perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, with agreeableness showing the strongest total effect, followed by conscientiousness. The results also reveal that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are salient predictors of users’ intention to adopt mobile banking. The study underscores the need for service providers to focus on designing effective marketing strategies that recognize different user personality traits so as to improve adoption.


Author(s):  
Athapol Ruangkanjanases ◽  
Suphitcha Wongprasopchai

The purpose of this study is to identify the significant factors that affect the adoption of mobile banking services, by conducting an empirical investigation on generation comparison, between Gen Y and Gen Z in Thailand. To test the framework, descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, collinearity analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis were applied to the primary data, which consists of 400 surveys collected from mobile banking users in Gen Y and Gen Z in Thailand. The results show that compatibility, perceived usefulness, and self-efficacy are significantly and positively affect customer intention to adopt the services in both generations. Interestingly, social influence has significantly affected adoption of mobile banking only in Gen Z.


El Dinar ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Mahad ◽  
Shahimi Mohtar

<p><em>Mobile banking refers to the use of smart phones or other mobile devices to perform tasks  online banking  from  your  home  computer, such as monitoring the   account balances, transfer of funds between accounts, pay bills and prepaid top-up. Mobile banking is a new strategy for the bank to enhance their latest technology in a new dynamic marketing environment. The low penetration of mobile banking in Malaysia, especially in terms of adoption patterns is becoming the research interest, especially when compared to the total number of cellular telephone subscriptions. Even if mobile banking is relatively new in Malaysia, it is very important for the banks to mitigate this issue and thus can draw more users. The issue of risk in term of security, privacy, financial, Time and performance is the five important dimensions in risk factor that may affect the user’s intention to adopt the mobile banking services.</em></p>


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