752
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

A Decision Model of Kenyan SMEs' Consumer Choice Behavior in Relation to Registration for a Mobile Banking Service: A Contextual Perspective

&

References

  • Adekunle, P. A., & Tella, A. (2008). Nigeria SMEs participation in electronic economy: Problems and the way forward. Journal of Internet Banking & Commerce, 13(3), 1–13.
  • Agar, M. H., & Hobbs, J. R. (1983). Natural plans: Using AI planning in the analysis of ethnographic interviews. Ethos, 11(1–2), 33–48. doi: 10.1525/eth.1983.11.1-2.02a00030
  • Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2), 179–211. doi: 10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T
  • Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1977). Attitude-behavior relations: A theoretical analysis and review of empirical research. Psychological Bulletin, 84(5), 888–918. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.84.5.888
  • Aker, J., & Mbiti, I. (2010). Mobile phones and economic development in Africa. Center for Global Development Working Paper, No. 211. Retrieved July 19, 2013, from http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1693963
  • Akhlaghpour, S., Wu, J., Lapointe, L., & Pinsonneault, A. (2009). Re-examining the status of “IT” in IT research-an update on Orlikowski and Iacono (2001). AMCIS 2009 Proceedings. Paper 187. Retrieved June 23, 2013, from http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/187
  • Anderson, J. (2010). M-banking in developing markets: Competitive and regulatory implications. Info, 12(1), 18–25. doi: 10.1108/14636691011015358
  • Astrom, B. A., & Svennesson, B. A. (1998). Unstructured supplementary service data from a home location register to an external node. U.S. Patent No. 5,752,188. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Avgerou, C. (1998). How can IT enable economic growth in developing countries? Information Technology for Development, 8(1), 15–28. doi: 10.1080/02681102.1998.9525288
  • Avgerou, C. (2001). The significance of context in information systems and organizational change. Information Systems Journal, 11(1), 43–63. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2001.00095.x
  • Avgerou, C. (2008). Discourses on innovation and development in information systems in developing countries’ research. Journal of Information Technology, 23(3), 133–146. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000136
  • Avgerou, C. (2010). Discourses on ICT and development. Information Technologies and International Development, 6(3), 1–18. doi: 10.4018/jiit.2010070101
  • Bailey, A., & Ngwenyama, O. (2013). Toward entrepreneurial behavior in underserved communities: An ethnographic decision tree model of telecenter usage. Information Technology for Development, 19(3), 230–248. doi: 10.1080/02681102.2012.751571
  • Barth, J., Lin, D., & Yost, K. (2011). Small and medium enterprise financing in transition economies. Atlantic Economic Journal, 39(1), 19–38. doi: 10.1007/s11293-010-9260-0
  • Beck, K. A. (2005). Ethnographic decision tree modeling: A research method for counseling psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52(2), 243–249. doi: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.2.243
  • Beck, T., & Demirgüç-Kunt, A. (2008). Access to finance: An unfinished agenda. The World Bank Economic Review, 22(3), 383–396. doi: 10.1093/wber/lhn021
  • Berry, J. W. (1989). Imposed etics-emics-derived etics: The operationalization of a compelling idea. International Journal of Psychology, 24(6), 721–735. doi: 10.1080/00207598908247841
  • Bezuidenhoudt, J., & Porteous, D. (2008). Managing the risk of mobile banking technologies. Report commissioned by FinMark Trust to Bankable Frontier Associates Boston, MA/Cape Town: Bankable Frontier Associates.
  • Bhattacharyya, S. S., & Sivanand, G. (2011). Mobile telephony network value-added services, quest for capturing the value created most: Answers from the concept of value network. Synergy, 9(2), 1–18.
  • Brown, I., Cajee, Z., Davies, D., & Stroebel, S. (2003). Cell phone banking: Predictors of adoption in South Africa, an exploratory study. International Journal of Information Management, 23(5), 381–394. doi: 10.1016/S0268-4012(03)00065-3
  • Calderón, C., & Liu, L. (2003). The direction of causality between financial development and economic growth. Journal of Development Economics, 72(1), 321–334. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3878(03)00079-8
  • Communications Commission of Kenya (2012). Quarterly sector statistics report, fourth quarter of the financial year 2011/2012. Nairobi: CCK.
  • Chibba, M. (2009). Financial inclusion, poverty reduction and the millennium development goals. European Journal of Development Research, 21(2), 213–230. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2008.17
  • Claessens, S., & Klingebiel, D. (2001). Competition and scope of activities in financial services. World Bank Research Observer, 16(1), 19–41. doi: 10.1093/wbro/16.1.19
  • Davenport, R. D. (2007). Perceived smart technology needs among elders with mobility impairments: An ethnographic approach (Doctoral thesis). University of Florida.
  • Demombynes, G., & Thegeya, A. (2012). Kenya's mobile revolution and the promise of mobile savings. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5988, Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2000). The discipline and practice of qualitative research. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 1–32). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Donner, J. (2008). Research approaches to mobile use in the developing world: A review of the literature. Information Society, 24(3), 140–159. doi: 10.1080/01972240802019970
  • Donner, J., & Tellez, C. A. (2008). Mobile banking and economic development: Linking adoption, impact, and use. Asian Journal of Communication, 18(4), 318–332. doi: 10.1080/01292980802344190
  • Duncombe, R. (1999). Information, ICTs and small enterprise: Findings from Botswana. Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester: University of Manchester.
  • Duncombe, R., & Boateng, R. (2009). Mobile phones and financial services in developing countries: A review of concepts, methods, issues, evidence and future research directions. Third World Quarterly, 30(7), 1237–1258. doi: 10.1080/01436590903134882
  • Fishbein, M. (1979). A theory of reasoned action: Some applications and implications. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 27, 65–116.
  • Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Fjellman, S. M. (1976). Natural and unnatural decision-making. Ethos, 4(1), 73–94. doi: 10.1525/eth.1976.4.1.02a00040
  • Franzel, S. C. (1984). Modeling farmers’ decisions in a farming systems research exercise: The adoption of an improved maize variety in Kirinyaga district, Kenya. Human Organization, 43(3), 198–207.
  • Gardiner, H. (1985). The mind's new science. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Ghezzi, A., Renga, F., Balocco, R., & Pescetto, P. (2010). Mobile payment applications offer state of the art in the Italian market. Info, 12(5), 3–22. doi: 10.1108/14636691011071130
  • Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1976). A view of the Plan Puebla: An application of hierarchical decision models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58(5), 881–887. doi: 10.2307/1239987
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1977). A model of farmers’ decisions to adopt the recommendations of Plan Puebla. Food Research Institute, Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1979a). Cognitive strategies and adoption decisions: A case study of non-adoption of an agronomic recommendation. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 28(1), 155–173. doi: 10.1086/451158
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1979b). Production functions and decision models: Complementary models. American Ethnologist, 6(4), 653–674. doi: 10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00030
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1983). Contributions of decision-tree methodology to a farming systems program. Human Organization, 42(2), 146–157.
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1989a). Ethnographic decision tree modeling. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Gladwin, C. H. (1989b). Modeling farmers’ decisions to change: Using cognitive science in the design of agricultural technology. In D. Groenfeldt & J. Lewinger Moock (Eds.), Social science perspectives on managing agricultural technology (pp. 127–141). Colombia: International Irrigation Management Institute.
  • Gladwin, C. H., & Barlett, P. (1980). A theory of real-life choice: Applications to agricultural decisions. In P. Barlett (Ed.), Agricultural decision making (pp. 45–85). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Gladwin, C. H., & Murtaugh, M. (1980). The attentive/preattentive distinction in agricultural decision making. In P. Barlett (Ed.), Agricultural decision making (pp. 115–136). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Gladwin, C. H., Peterson, J. S., & Mwale, A. C. (2002). The quality of science in participatory research: A case study from Eastern Zambia. World Development, 30(4), 523–543. doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00002-5
  • Gomez, R. (2008). The quest for intangibles: Understanding ICTs for digital inclusion beyond socio-economic impact. Prato CIRN 2008 Community Informatics Conference: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality? 1–7.
  • Gomez, R., & Pather, S. (2011). ICT evaluation: Are we asking the right questions? The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 50(5), 1–14.
  • Heeks, R. (2008). ICT4D 2.0: The next phase of applying ICT for international development. Computer, 41(6), 26–33. doi: 10.1109/MC.2008.192
  • Heeks, R. (2010). Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to development? Journal of International Development, 22(5), 625–640. doi: 10.1002/jid.1716
  • Ivatury, G., & Pickens, M. (2006). Mobile phone banking and low-income customers: Evidence for South Africa. Washington, DC: CGAP/Grupo del Banco Mundial.
  • Jack, W., Suri, T., & Townsend, R. (2010). Monetary theory and electronic money: Reflections on the Kenyan experience. Economic Quarterly, 96(1), 83–122.
  • Jonsen, K., & Jehn, K. A. (2009). Using triangulation to validate themes in qualitative studies. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 4(2), 123–150. doi: 10.1108/17465640910978391
  • Kabukuru, W. (2010). Mobile banking: Kenya leading a new revolution. New African, 494, 76–77.
  • Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1982). The psychology of preferences. Scientific American, 246(1), 160–173. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0182-160
  • Kelly, G. A. (1955). The psychology of personal constructs. New York, NY: Norton.
  • Kiringai, J., Fengler, W., Demombynes, G., Gitau, M., Owegi, F., & Sullivan, R. (2010). Kenya at the tipping point? With a focus on ICT revolution and mobile money. Kenya Economic Update Series. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Koenig-Lewis, N., Palmer, A., & Moll, A. (2010). Predicting young consumers’ take up of mobile banking services. International Journal of Bank Marketing, 28(5), 410–432. doi: 10.1108/02652321011064917
  • Lancaster, K. J. (1966). A new approach to consumer theory. The Journal of Political Economy, 74(2), 132–157. doi: 10.1086/259131
  • Lave, C. A., & March, J. G. (1975). An introduction to models in the social sciences. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
  • Luarn, P., & Lin, H. (2005). Toward an understanding of the behavioral intention to use mobile banking. Computers in Human Behavior, 21(6), 873–891. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.03.003
  • Luo, X., Li, H., Zhang, J., & Shim, J. P. (2010). Examining multi-dimensional trust and multi-faceted risk in initial acceptance of emerging technologies: An empirical study of mobile banking services. Decision Support Systems, 49(2), 222–234. doi: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.02.008
  • Lyman, T., Ivatury, G., & Staschen, S. (2006). Use of agents in branchless banking for the poor: Rewards, risks, and regulation. Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), Focus Note, 38, Washington, DC: CGAP.
  • Malinowski, B. (1922). Argonauts of the Western Pacific, an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. London: Routledge.
  • Mansell, R. (1999). Information and communication technologies for development: Assessing the potential and the risks. Telecommunications Policy, 23(1), 35–50. doi: 10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00074-3
  • Mas, I., & Kumar, K. (2008). Banking on mobiles: Why, how, for whom? CGAP Focus Note 48, Washington, DC: CGAP.
  • Mbogo, M. (2010). The impact of mobile payments on the success and growth of micro-business: The case of m-pesa in Kenya. Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2(1), 182–203. doi: 10.4314/jolte.v2i1.51998
  • Mills, J. L. (1999). Remotely retrieving SIM stored data over a connection-less. Communications link. U.S. Patent No. 5,915,225. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Molony, T. (2007). ‘I don't trust the phone; it always lies’: Trust and information and communication technologies in Tanzanian micro- and small enterprises. Information Technologies & International Development, 3(4), 67–83. doi: 10.1162/itid.2007.3.4.67
  • Morales-Gomez, D., & Melesse, M. (1998). Utilising information and communication technologies for development: The social dimensions. Information Technology for Development, 8(1), 3–13. doi: 10.1080/02681102.1998.9525287
  • Morawczynski, O., & Miscione, G. (2008). Examining trust in mobile banking transactions: The case of M-PESA in Kenya. In C. Avgerou, M. L. Smith, & P. van den Besselaar (Eds.), IFIP international federation for information processing, Vol. 282, Social dimensions of information and communication technology policy (pp. 287–298). Boston, MA: Springer.
  • Morey, N. C., & Luthans, F. (1984). An emic perspective and ethnoscience methods for organizational research. Academy of Management Review, 9(1), 27–36.
  • Murray-Prior, R. (1998). Modelling farmer behaviour: A personal construct theory interpretation of hierarchical decision models. Agricultural Systems, 57(4), 541–556. doi: 10.1016/S0308-521X(98)00008-0
  • Murray-Prior, R. B., & Wright, V. E. (2001). Influence of strategies and heuristics on farmers’ response to change under uncertainty. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 45(4), 573–598. doi: 10.1111/1467-8489.00158
  • Murtaugh, M., & Gladwin, H. (1980). A hierarchical decision-process model for forecasting automobile type-choice. Transportation Research Part A: General, 14(5), 337–347. doi: 10.1016/0191-2607(80)90053-9
  • Ng'ang'a, A. M. (2009). Toward a regional ICT hub: Need for cyber laws in Kenya. Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 18(1), 47–50.
  • Ngugi, B., Pelowski, M., & Ogembo, J. G. (2010). M-PESA: A case study of the critical early adopters’ role in the rapid adoption of mobile money banking in Kenya. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 43(3), 1–16.
  • Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). The duality of technology: Rethinking the concept of technology in organizations. Organization Science, 3(3), 398–427. doi: 10.1287/orsc.3.3.398
  • Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for studying technology in organizations. Organization Science, 11(4), 404–428. doi: 10.1287/orsc.11.4.404.14600
  • Orlikowski, W. J., & Barley, S. R. (2001). Technology and institutions: What can research on information technology and research on organizations learn from each other? MIS Quarterly, 25(2), 145–165. doi: 10.2307/3250927
  • Orlikowski, W. J., & Iacono, C. S. (2001). Research commentary: Desperately seeking the “IT” in IT research – a call to theorizing the IT artifact. Information Systems Research, 12(2), 121–134. doi: 10.1287/isre.12.2.121.9700
  • Orr, G. (2003). Review – diffusion of innovations, by Everett Rogers (1995). Retrieved August, 21, 2013 from https://teamlead.duke-nus.edu.sg/vapfiles_ocs/2011/edu/Diffusion_of_Innovations_by_Everett_Rogers_1995.pdf.
  • Pajo, K., Coetzer, A., & Guenole, N. (2010). Formal development opportunities and withdrawal behaviors by employees in small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of Small Business Management, 48(3), 281–301. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-627X.2010.00295.x
  • Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative research and evaluation methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Peevers, G., Douglas, G., & Jack, M. A. (2008). A usability comparison of three alternative message formats for an SMS banking service. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(2), 113–123. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.09.005
  • Porteous, D. (2007). Just how transformational is m-banking. Report commissioned by FinMark Trust to Bankable Frontier Associates. Retrieved August, 19, 2013 from http://www.finscope.co.za/documents/2007/transformational_mbanking.pdf.
  • Prakash, A., & De’, R. (2007). Importance of development context in ICT4D projects: A study of computerization of land records in India. Information Technology & People, 20(3), 262–281. doi: 10.1108/09593840710822868
  • Quinn, N. (1971, November). Simplifying procedures in natural decision-making. Mathematical Social Science Board Seminar in Natural Decision Making Behavior, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Quinn, N. (1975). Decision models of social structure. American Ethnologist, 2(1), 19–45. doi: 10.1525/ae.1975.2.1.02a00020
  • Rhine, S. L. W., & Greene, W. H. (2006). The determinants of being unbanked for U.S. immigrants. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 40(1), 21–40. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2006.00044.x
  • Rotimi, E., Awodele, O., & Bamidele, O. (2007). SMS banking services: A 21st century innovation in banking technology. Issues in Informing Science & Information Technology, 4, 227–234.
  • Rousseau, P. L., & Wachtel, P. (2011). What is happening to the impact of financial deepening on economic growth? Economic Inquiry, 49(1), 276–288. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00197.x
  • Routray, S., Sherry, A. M., & Reddy, B. V. R. (2008). Wireless ATM: A technological framework to m-banking. Journal of Internet Banking & Commerce, 13(1), 1–10.
  • Ryan, G. W., & Bernard, H. R. (2000). Data management and analysis methods. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed.) (pp. 769–802). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Ryan, G. W., & Bernard, H. R. (2006). Testing an ethnographic decision tree model on a national sample: Recycling beverage cans. Human Organization, 65(1), 103–114.
  • Sahay, S., & Avgerou, C. (2002). Introducing the special issue on information and communication technologies in developing countries. Information Society, 18(2), 73–76. doi: 10.1080/01972240290075002
  • Schank, R., & Abelson, R. (1977). Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding: An inquiry into human knowledge structures. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons.
  • Schoemaker, P. J. (1982). The expected utility model: Its variants, purposes, evidence and limitations. Journal of Economic Literature, 20(2), 529–563.
  • Schoombee, A. (2004). South African banks and the unbanked: Progress and prospects. South African Journal of Economics, 72(3), 598–620.
  • Shaffer, S. (2004). Comment on “what drives bank competition? Some international evidence” by Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven. Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, 36(3), 585–592. doi: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0050
  • Simon, H. A. (1955). A behavioral model of rational choice. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 69(1), 99–118. doi: 10.2307/1884852
  • Spradley, J. P. (1979). The ethnographic interview. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.
  • Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant observation. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • Sulaiman, A., Jaafar, N. I., & Mohezar, S. (2007). An overview of mobile banking adoption among the urban community. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 5(2), 157–168. doi: 10.1504/IJMC.2007.011814
  • Townsend, R. M., & Ueda, K. (2006). Financial deepening, inequality, and growth: A model-based quantitative evaluation. The Review of Economic Studies, 73(1), 251–293. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x
  • Tversky, A. (1972). Elimination by aspects: A theory of choice. Psychological Review, 79(4), 281–299. doi: 10.1037/h0032955
  • Valverde, S. C., Paso, R. L. D., & Fernández, F. R. (2007). Financial innovations in banking: Impact on regional growth. Regional Studies, 41(3), 311–326. doi: 10.1080/00343400600928350
  • Walsham, G., & Sahay, S. (2006). Research on information systems in developing countries: Current landscape and future prospects. Information Technology for Development, 12(1), 7–24. doi: 10.1002/itdj.20020
  • Warner, R. (1999). The emics and etics of quality of life assessment. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 34(3), 117–121. doi: 10.1007/s001270050121
  • Weber, R. H., & Darbellay, A. (2010). Legal issues in mobile banking. Journal of Banking Regulation, 11(2), 129–145. doi: 10.1057/jbr.2009.16
  • Whitehead, T. (2004). What is ethnography? Methodological, ontological, and epistemological attributes. Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems (EICCARS). Working Paper Series. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
  • Whitehead, T. L. (2005). Basic classical ethnographic research methods. Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems (EICCARS). Working Paper Series. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
  • Yousafzai, S. Y., Foxall, G. R., & Pallister, J. G. (2010). Explaining internet banking behavior: Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, or technology acceptance model? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(5), 1172–1202. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00615.x

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.