Exploring the determinants of mobile banking adoption in the context of Saudi Arabia.

Rapid advances in mobile technologies and innovations have made mobile banking progressively significant in mobile business and monetary administrations. Our study used TAM and perceived risk as a theoretical base to develop a conceptual model that can explain the main factors affecting users intentions to adopt mobile banking in Saudi Arabia context. SEM/AMOS techniques were used to analyse the data collected from mobile banking users. the results indicated that perceived relative advantages, perceived ease of use, perceived compatibility have a significant positive effect on attitude towards mobile banking adoption, while perceived risk has a negative effect on intention to adopt. Furthermore, attitude has a significant influence on intentions to adopt mobile banking. The study offers meaningful implications to theory and practice.

Exploring the determinants of mobile banking adoption in the context of Saudi Arabia.

Rapid advances in mobile technologies and innovations have made mobile banking progressively significant in mobile business and monetary administrations. Our study used TAM and perceived risk as a theoretical base to develop a conceptual model that can explain the main factors affecting users intentions to adopt mobile banking in Saudi Arabia context. SEM/AMOS techniques were used to analyse the data collected from mobile banking users. the results indicated that perceived relative advantages, perceived ease of use, perceived compatibility have a significant positive effect on attitude towards mobile banking adoption, while perceived risk has a negative effect on intention to adopt. Furthermore, attitude has a significant influence on intentions to adopt mobile banking. The study offers meaningful implications to theory and practice.

Identifying Technical Requirements for a Mobile Business Analytics Application

This study identifies various technical requirements for business analytics applications designed and optimized for mobile devices. Such applications would enable the mobile workforce to gain business insights regardless of their physical locations. In order for the mobile workforce to be efficient and effective, they need to be able to use the browsers and applications designed specifically for the mobile devices to access data, similar to desktop computers. Based on the research, such factors as online and off-line data analysis capabilities, data visualization capabilities, and security issues appear to be important factors to be addressed carefully by developers.

Interaction of IT investment mandates and mobile savvy affecting mobile office performance in corporates: Focusing on the moderating effects of IT savvy

This study investigates the effect of IT investment portfolios on the performance of mobile business services, as well as the moderating role of IT savvy. This study pulls the concept of IT investment mandates into the conceptual research framework of mobile investment. A survey for the IT specialists working at 123 enterprise-level companies was conducted and hierarchical regression analysis was adopted. Our results show that IT investment and organizational IT capabilities influence the performance of the mobile office and that IT savvy plays as a moderator in the relationship between investment mandates and mobile office performance. This research also may indicate that transactional assets are most helpful factors for a change by the adoption of mobile technology. This study is a rare research paper to explain the impact of IT investment portfolios on the mobile office performance in an academic methodology.

Panel Title: Municipal Wireless Networks: Hot Spots for Mobile Business or Just Hot Air?

All the panelists are members of the Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project (CWIRP) team (www.cwirp.ca). CWIRP is funded by Infrastructure Canada, to investigate the development and deployment of public ICT infrastructures. The project focuses on municipal and community wireless network initiatives.

Panel Title: Municipal Wireless Networks: Hot Spots for Mobile Business or Just Hot Air?

All the panelists are members of the Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project (CWIRP) team (www.cwirp.ca). CWIRP is funded by Infrastructure Canada, to investigate the development and deployment of public ICT infrastructures. The project focuses on municipal and community wireless network initiatives.

Accessibility Experience Design (AxD): A Bi-directional Accessibility Perspective for e-Business Services

This chapter proposes the idea of accessibility experience design for e-business services, as a bi-directional accessibility perspective for e-business growth in market share. The study is based on the needs for social justice, inclusion, and access on one hand, and business profit on the other. e-Business services have continued to grow with advancement of web and mobile business applications, which give better access to customers and influence the public. Awareness of the need for universal accessibility, to the services which are progressively being offered online, has also increased. Recently, accessibility policies and regulations have become more visible. However, even with the current COVID-19 situation and the shift to online mode, e-business services still lag in web and document accessibility. The resultant loss of access to the sub-population of impaired people results in missed business and market expansion opportunities. Therefore, this chapter explores the current drivers of accessibility practices, adoption by e-business services, and their market implications. The bi-directional accessibility perspective is proposed through the notion of accessibility experience design. The chapter is based on secondary research, which is complimented with demographic analysis of existing population data sets.

Mobile Business Effects on Employees' Social Life

The use of mobile devices and smartphones is increasingly becoming a critical part of many people’s lifestyle. Such usage can vary from playing games to accomplishing work-related tasks. Being able to use organizations’ persuasive technologies via mobile business services or to achieve work-related tasks ubiquitously at any time means that such devices provide a valuable service, especially for employees who are working online. This paper explores the impact of mBusiness on the social life of employees. In the research, structural equation modeling was applied to validate the research model. Employees in Saudi organizations were surveyed to test the research hypotheses. The research results confirmed that there are some negative effects of using mBusiness technologies on the social life of employees. Based on the analysis, the findings revealed that addiction to mBusiness technologies significantly increases the perceived work overload, which also significantly increases work-family conflict. The paper concludes with some implications of this research.