Adoption of mobile banking in Finland
Banking is an area in which technology has had a fundamental impact on the everyday lives of consumers. This article-based dissertation examines an innovation in the financial services industry, namely mobile banking services. It seeks to determine and explain the factors affecting the adoption of mobile banking services, thus the perspective taken by the dissertation is one that focuses on consumer behaviour patterns. In order to arrive at a theoretical model, it draws on traditional theories of innovation diffusion and adoption, and also on the literature relating to electronic banking and technology-based services. The model was tested with an empirical study. This aimed at conceptualising various factors and modelling the relationships between variables in the mobile banking adoption framework. Methodologically, the dissertation takes a descriptive approach to the phenomenon under study. The data in the empirical study were collected by means of a questionnaire mailed to banking customers (1253 responses received). The results indicated that certain attributes of mobile banking innovation drive usage or explain consumer behaviour, in particular relative advantage, compatibility, communication and trialability. By contrast, the investigation of complexity and risk of using mobile banking yielded no support as being barriers to adoption. The technology perceptions and certain demographical variables of the customers have a significant impact on the adoption behaviour. It is possible to arrive at a profile of a typical mobile banking user. Contrary to the assumptions of adoption theory, Internet banking does not emerge as a related service product. Overall, the dissertation goes some way beyond merely modelling consumer behaviour in the mobile banking context or questioning some aspects of adoption theory; it also presents insights that could be useful to banking practitioners
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Mari Suoranta tutkii väitöskirjassaan mobiilin päätelaitteen eli matkapuhelimen ja kämmenmikron välityksellä käytettäviä pankkipalveluita, mobiilipankkipalveluita. Kansainvälisesti mobiilipankkipalveluiden käyttäjämäärät ovat olleet vielä vähäisiä, mutta Suomessa näillä palveluilla on jo omat käyttäjäryhmänsä. Mobiilipankkipalvelut tarjoavat yhä useammille kanavan pankkiasiointiin.Suoranta havaitsi, että mobiilia palvelukanavaa käyttävä henkilö on naimisissa oleva mies tai nainen, 25 – 34 -vuotias, keskiasteen koulutuksen omaava, keskituloinen ja työskentelee työntekijänä palvelusektorilla. Tämä tulos poikkeaa aikaisemmista tutkimuksista, joiden mukaisesti innovaatioiden, ja erityisesti mobiilipalveluiden, omaksujat ovat olleet korkeasti koulutettuja, suhteellisen suurituloisia ja usein toimihenkilöitä tai johtavassa asemassa olevia.
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