The Acceptance of Mobility Payments in the German Retail Market
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Fachbereich
Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Fachrichtung
Marketing/Absatz
Artikel
2016
Sprache
englisch
Co Autoren
Oliver Schuster; Christine Falkenreck
Beschreibung
The acceptance of mobile payments is one of the research challenges of high strategic relevance in retailing. Most of the previous studies of mobile payment field focus on consumers’ opinions, expectations and concerns to assess their acceptance of mobile payment systems. The financial transactions’ complementing party – the merchants – who also needed to accept and, therefore, to implement mobile payment technologies is considered in this study. The purpose of this study is to enhance an existing research framework, which already integrates the constructs user satisfaction and technology acceptance, to fit better the mobile payment domain out of the retailer’s perspective. Seizing this, we develop and test a new structural equation model linking between the quality of the environment, economic benefits and application satisfaction with the merchant’s use of mobile payment systems. Testing the conceptual framework by fitting a structural equation model builds upon information obtained from 166 merchants spreading all over Germany. We collected the information from the German retail sector,
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