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The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that determine the local people of Sabah (also known as Sabahan) bank customers' intention to use mobile banking. This study extends the applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to mobile banking and includes "perceived credibility", "perceived enjoyment" and "perceived selfefficacy", in addition to "perceived usefulness" and "perceived ease of use". The results indicate that perceived credibility, perceived enjoyment and perceived self-efficacy are important determinants to predicting the intentions of Malaysia's customers' to use mobile banking. However, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are not that of importance in predicting the intentions of the local customers to use mobile banking. The study contains a sample of local people of Sabah, in Eastern-Malaysia, and a limited number of measures in the model. Nonetheless, it provides new insight into factors affecting mobile banking use among local people in Sabah, a Malaysia's state. The results also provide general guidelines to banking institutions to better planning of mobile banking services as their future gadget of banking channel.
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RECEPTIVENESS OF MOBILE BANKING BY MALAYSIAN LOCAL
CUSTOMERS IN SABAH: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
Hanudin Amin
Lecturer, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Postal Address: Labuan School of International Business and Finance, Universiti
Malaysia Sabah – Labuan International Campus, Jalan Sungai Pagar, 87000
Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia and IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and
Finance (IIiBF), International Islamic University Malaysia, No. 205A, Jalan
Damansara, Damansara Heights, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Author's Personal/Organizational Website: www.ums.edu.my
Email: hanudin_zu@yahoo.com
Hanudin Amin is a lecturer/researcher at the Labuan School of International Business
and Finance, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. He is currently working as a PhD candidate at
the IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF) in Damansara, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. His areas of interest are Islamic banking, bank management, Islamic
accounting and e-banking.
Rostinah Supinah
Lecturer, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Postal Address: Labuan School of International Business and Finance, Universiti
Malaysia Sabah – Labuan International Campus, Jalan Sungai Pagar, 87000
Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia
Author's Personal/Organizational Website: www.ums.edu.my
Email: rostinah59@hotmail.com
Rostinah Supinah is currently a lecturer/researcher at the Labuan School of International
Business and Finance, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Her areas of interest are credit card,
Internet banking and Islamic finance.
Masmurniwati Mohd Aris
Lecturer, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Postal Address: School of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah,
Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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Author's Personal/Organizational Website: www.ums.edu.my
Email: mas@ums.edu.my
Masmurniwati Mohd Aris is currently a lecturer/researcher at the School of Business and
Economics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Her areas of interest are Internet banking and
Islamic finance.
Ricardo Baba
Assoc. Professor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Postal Address: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
Author's Personal/Organizational Website: www.feb.unimas.my
Email: rbaba@feb.unimas.edu.my
Ricardo Baba is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and
Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. His research interests are in international
banking and finance, Islamic finance, entrepreneurship, and strategic management.
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that determine the local people of
Sabah (also known as Sabahan) bank customers’ intention to use mobile banking. This
study extends the applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to mobile
banking and includes “perceived credibility”, “perceived enjoyment” and “perceived self-
efficacy”, in addition to “perceived usefulness” and “perceived ease of use”. The results
indicate that perceived credibility, perceived enjoyment and perceived self-efficacy are
important determinants to predicting the intentions of Malaysia’s customers’ to use
mobile banking. However, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are not that
of importance in predicting the intentions of the local customers to use mobile banking.
The study contains a sample of local people of Sabah, in Eastern-Malaysia, and a
limited number of measures in the model. Nonetheless, it provides new insight into
factors affecting mobile banking use among local people in Sabah, a Malaysia’s state.
The results also provide general guidelines to banking institutions to better planning of
mobile banking services as their future gadget of banking channel.
Keywords: Mobile banking; Consumer; Technology acceptance model; Financial
transactions; Eastern-Malaysia; Malaysia
© Hanudin Amin et al. (2012)
INTRODUCTION
Sabah is best known as “the land below the wind”. It is one of the wonderful states in
Malaysia. The state is blessed with amazingly beautiful landscapes, cultural diversities
and natural resources. Kota Kinabalu is the capital city of the state that houses diverse
banking and financial institutions. Customers of banks in the city play a major role in
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performing a various types of financial activities. The bank customers in Sabah were
composed of Kadazandusun, Bajau, Murut, Bisaya, Ubian, Kedayan, Rungus and Suluk,
to mention some. Needless to say, the local people of Sabah are easily recognized
mainly through their slangs. For instance, bagus bah Bank Islam tu! Siya orang Malaysia
bah! The slang “bah” reflects the local people identity (Sabahan) in Malaysia.
On that basis, the current study is aimed at investigating factors that affecting these local
people using mobile banking services. The reasons of choosing the local people are
two-fold. Firstly, there is a paucity of studies that have adequately explained the effects
of mobile banking use to the Sabahan (Guriting & Ndubisi, 2006; Ndubisi & Sinti, 2006).
Secondly, the local people involved in various monthly financial commitments such as
utility bill payment, home loan, ASTRO (Malaysian direct broadcast satellite), fund
transfer and prepaid. Traditional mode of payment requires local people to visit
banks/non-bank financial institutions to service these financial commitments and it is
relatively time-consuming. The use of mobile banking would of particular interest to
tackle this situation.
Importantly, using mobile banking will help to improve one’s access to banking
transactions without walking to the bank’s counter. In this study, we generally defined
mobile banking as a “banking-technology” used to conduct banking transactions via
bank customers’ handheld mobile phones. It is proven by previous studies that, mobile
banking offers many advantages to bank customers (e.g. Hamzah, 2005; Riivari, 2005;
Kohli, 2004). Hamzah (2005) said that “mobile banking” brings convenience and
enhanced value. Riivari (2005) claimed that the opportunity for mobile services is three
times as many mobile phone users as those who use online Personal Computers (PCs)
and they are now ready for anywhere, anytime applications that match their lifestyles.
On the same note, Kohli (2004) asserted that the mobile banking service gives
customers the convenience of account access information and real-time transaction
capabilities. The clarifications rendered by these studies imply that mobile banking is not
only improves one’s access to financial transactions but also reducing one’s transaction
costs (e.g. time and money).
The present study investigates the factors affecting bank customer’s use of mobile
banking in Sabah. Deliberately, the technology acceptance model (TAM) was used as a
point of departure to explore the factors affecting bank customers’ use of mobile
banking. This study extends the applicability of TAM into mobile banking, which has
limited to study in Sabah, Malaysia. The original elements of TAM notably perceived
ease of use and perceived usefulness are found to be the most important constructs in
predicting information systems (IS) acceptance. These two constructs are useful and
valid in understanding individual’s intention to adopt IS (Ramayah & Mohd-Suki, 2006;
Guriting & Ndubisi, 2006; Pikkarainen et al., 2004; Ramayah et al., 2003; Venkatesh &
Morris, 2000). However, depending on the specific technology context, additional
explanatory predictors are often employed. As such, perceived enjoyment, perceived
credibility and perceived self-efficacy are added to the TAM in order to escalate the
understanding of bank customers’ use of mobile banking. Worth to mention, this study
indeed is beneficial by providing an analysis of bank customers’ mobile banking
acceptance to researchers and practitioners. This study is of value to notify public about
the availability of mobile banking in local banks.
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The paper is structured into 5 sections. The following section is section 2 that presents
about literature review, followed by section 3 that discusses about the methodology.
Section 4 will present the results of study includes hypotheses testing and discussion of
results. Finally, this paper closes with a conclusion that can be viewed at the end part of
this paper.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Concerned with TAM, an investigation on previous studies had been conducted in order
to reveal the TAM applicability in various IS applications. The following discussion
provides an overview of the previous studies relevant to the current study.
Perceived usefulness
The first element of TAM was perceived usefulness. Guriting and Ndubisi (2006)
examined online banking adoption in Sabah. Guriting and Ndubisi (2006) found that
perceived usefulness was a strong determinant of online banking adoption among bank
customers. Similarly, a study by Ramayah and Mohd-Suki (2006) on mobile PC also
found that perceived usefulness was a strong determinant of mobile PC adoption among
MBA students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Another study by Ramayah and
colleagues, Ramayah et al. (2003) examined the receptiveness of Internet banking by
Malaysian consumers. The result of their study indicated that perceived usefulness was
the driver of the intention to use Internet banking, which means if the system is useful,
therefore the willingness of bank customers to use the system will be likely higher.
Consequently, with a good value carries by a mobile phone, the inclusion of banking
function will able to enhance the value carries by the gadget. In a normal situation,
mobile phone is useful with respect to make our contact with the loved ones better
through sharing feeling and emotion. This also explains that the banks contact with their
customers would be better by offering banking services through their customers’ mobile
phones.
Perceived ease of use
The second element of TAM was perceived ease of use. It is defined as how clear and
understandable interaction with the system is, ease of getting the system to do what is
required, mental effort required to interact with the system, and ease of use of the
system (Guriting & Ndubisi, 2006; Davis et al., 1989). In more detail, Guriting and
Ndubisi (2006) found that perceived ease of use had a positive relationship with
behavioral intention to use Internet banking in Sabah. Similarly, Ramayah et al. (2003)
examined that perceived ease of use had significant impact in the development of initial
willingness to use Internet banking. Furthermore, Luarn and Lin (2005) also found that
there existed a positive causality between perceived ease of use and usage intention.
Similarly, in a study of Kleijnen et al. (2004) about wireless finance in Netherlands,
perceived ease of use was significant measure in the development of people’s intention
to use wireless finance.
Perceived credibility
The issue of security and privacy to the acceptance of Internet banking has been noted
in many banking studies (Pikkarainen et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2003; Howcroft et al.,
2002; Polatoglu & Ekin, 2001; Sathye, 1999). Perceived credibility refers to the two
important dimensions – security and privacy – that are identified across many studies as
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effecting intention by users to adopt the Internet-based transaction systems (Wang et al.,
2003). Wang et al. (2003) examined about Internet banking found that perceived
credibility had a significant positive effect on behavioral intention over Internet banking.
The study also strongly suggests that perceived credibility has the higher ability to
predict and explain the intention of users to adopt Internet banking. Ramayah et al.
(2003) found that the respondents placed security as one of the important factors when
adopting Internet banking. Fundamentally, most of the individuals are reluctant to use
Internet banking as they have concerns over the security and privacy issues. However, a
study by Pikkarainen et al. (2004) showed contradicts result. Their study showed that
perceived credibility to be statistically non-significant. In that sense, security and privacy
were found to have a relatively weak relationship with the acceptance. The result is
consistent with the study conducted in Malaysia by Ndubisi and Sinti (2006) who found
that the risk was a weak predictor because of the assurance of the banks over the
security of their internet banking. All the cyber banks in Malaysia promote this product as
a fully secure option with 128-bit encryption technology (Ndubisi & Sinti, 2006). The
inclusion of “perceived credibility” is still relevant owing to the fact that mobile banking is
subject to the unauthorized access, phantom fund transfers and data sabotage.
Understanding consumers’ perception with regard to the credibility of utilizing the system
is able to provide key points to service providers for better planning of the mobile
banking facilities.
Perceived enjoyment
Perceived enjoyment is defined as the extent to which the activity of using a computer is
perceived to be enjoyable in its own right (Davis et al., 1992). A number of studies on
perceived enjoyment have noticed the importance of the construct (Nysveen et al., 2005;
Pikkarainen et al., 2004; Teo et al., 1999). Explained in more detail, Nysveen et al.
(2005) found that perceived enjoyment correlated positively with intention to use mobile
chat, which was a stronger determinant for female users compared to male users. The
result reported by Nysveen et al. (2005) is similar to what was found by Teo et al.
(1999). Teo et al. (1999) found that perceived enjoyment correlated positively with
frequency of Internet usage. Teo et al. (1999) definitely believed that Internet usage
offers fun, pleasant and exciting since it is flexible. On the other hand, Pikkarainen et al.
(2004) examined online banking acceptance and found that perceived enjoyment was
not significantly related to the use of Internet banking. In a similar vein, Igbaria et al.
(1995) found that enjoyment had no statistically significant effect on the acceptance of
data processing systems. It is expected that using mobile banking would generate an
enjoyment to bank customers. On this basis, it is expected that perceived enjoyment
would be affecting the acceptance of mobile banking.
Perceived self-efficacy
By definition, perceived self-efficacy refers as the belief that one has the capability to
perform a particular behavior (Compeau & Higgins, 1995). The importance of this
construct in IS has been well documented by many previous academic studies (Luarn &
Lin, 2005; Wang et al., 2003; Agarwal et al., 2000; Venkatesh, 2000). As far as mobile
banking is concerned, perceived self-efficacy can be defined as the judgment of one’s
ability to use mobile banking. Indeed, there is empirical support for the causal
relationship between perceived self-efficacy and behavioral intention (Agarwal et al.,
2000; Venkatesh, 2000; Compeau & Higgins, 1995). Luarn and Lin (2005) found that
perceived self-efficacy had a significant positive influence on behavioral intention to use
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IS. A study conducted by Wang et al. (2003) found that computer self-efficacy had
significant positive influence on behavioral intention. Bank customers are likely to adopt
mobile banking when they have ability to perform it. Perceived self-efficacy can be
improved in oneself if an education program, seminar, and even short-course are
organized to instill the skills and knowledge of individuals pertaining to mobile banking. It
is of interest to examine the effect of the factor on the mobile banking use among the
local people of Sabah, Malaysia. The results of this effort are expected to add to the
limited knowledge presently available about mobile banking particularly from a Sabah’s
context.
RESEARCH METHODS
Samples
This study was conducted in Sabah, situated in Northern Borneo, Malaysia. The
population of this study consists of bank customers in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
The respondents were customers of banks in Kota Kinabalu who had mobile phones but
yet to use mobile banking. For this reason, this study tends to investigate their
willingness to use mobile banking in the future based on suggested factors as introduced
in the earlier part of this paper. The unit of analysis was the local people of Sabah or is
best known as Sabahan. Other respondents such as Malays, Chinese, Indians, and
foreigners are not analyzed in the current study. This research used a convenience
sampling owing to the fact that it is particularly was self-funded. The survey was
conducted in March 2007. This study provided 200 questionnaires to be distributed,
however due to the time and cost constraint only 160 were managed to be distributed.
Of these, only 152 questionnaires were usable and qualify for the further analysis of the
data. There is 95 percent response rate. Table 1 depicts the profile of respondents with
regard to gender, age, education level, monthly income and ethnicity.
Table 1: Profile of respondents
Demographics Details Frequency Percentile
Gender Male 54 35.5
Female 98 34.5
Age (year) Less than 20 3 2.0
21-25 58 38.2
26-30 26 17.1
31-35 23 15.1
36-40 14 9.2
Above 41 27 17.8
Education level Secondary 49 32.3
Diploma 12 7.9
Degree (bachelor) 69 45.4
Postgraduate degree 22 14.5
Monthly income (RM) Less than 1,000 63 41.4
1,001-2,500 44 61.3
2,501-3,000 20 13.2
3,001-3,500 24 15.8
Above 3,500 20 13.2
Ethnicity Kadazan-Dusun 40 26.3
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Bajau 32 21.1
Murut 12 7.9
Rungus 21 13.8
Bisaya 10 6.6
Kedayan 18 11.8
Suluk 8 5.3
Others 11 7.2
Measures
The items of the questionnaire were adapted from previous studies. The scale used in
this study which 5 points likert scale is similar to what was used by Pikkarainen et al.
(2004). Therefore, as a basis of questions, 5 points likert scale ranging from “5=strongly
agree” to “1=strongly disagree” were employed. The items for perceived usefulness were
adapted from Ramayah et al. (2009) and Pikkarainen et al. (2004). The items for
perceived ease of use were adapted from Ramayah et al. (2009), Pikkarainen et al.
(2004) and Davis (1989). The items for perceived credibility were adapted from Luarn
and Lin (2005). The items for perceived enjoyment were adapted from Pikkarainen et al.
(2004). The items for perceived self-efficacy were adapted from Luarn and Lin (2005).
Prior to the actual survey, the questionnaire was pre-tested using 10 bank customer
subjects in Kota Kinabalu. The purpose of the test was to prevent any ambiguousness in
the items of the questionnaire as well as to evaluate respondents’ comprehension.
Further, the results of the study were then used in order to modify and finalize the
research questionnaire.
Research model and hypotheses
The following model is extracted from Davis et al. (1989). Additional constructs namely
perceived credibility, perceived enjoyment and perceived self-efficacy are added into the
model:
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
Figure 1: Modified model for mobile banking
Perceived
credibility
Perceived
usefulness
Perceived
self-efficacy
Perceived
ease of use
Mobile banking
use
Perceived
enjoyment
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Based on Figure 1, the following null hypotheses are developed in this study:
H1.Perceived usefulness will not have a positive effect on mobile banking use
H2.Perceived ease of use will not have a positive effect on mobile banking use
H3.Perceived credibility will not have a positive effect on mobile banking use
H4.Perceived enjoyment will not have a positive effect on mobile banking use
H5.Perceived self-efficacy will not have a positive effect on mobile banking use
HYPOTHESES TESTING AND DISCUSSIONS OF RESULTS
All employed items were reliable; mobile banking use (α = .938); perceived usefulness (α
= .936); perceived ease of use (α = .909); perceived credibility (α = .873); perceived
enjoyment (α = .803); and perceived self-efficacy (α = .894). In short, the Cronbach’s
alpha values for all dimensions range from 0.803 to 0.938, exceeding the minimum
alpha of 0.6 (Hair et al., 1998), thus the constructs measures are deemed reliable.
Table 2: Summary of regression result and alpha
Independent
variables
R2 Adjusted
R2
Standardized
Beta t Sig. F α
Constant 0.711 0.701 1.301 0.195 71.952
(0.000**)
.938
Perceived
usefulness
0.088 1.005 0.317n.s. .936
Perceived
ease of use
0.097 1.319 0.189n.s. .909
Perceived
credibility
0.282 4.431 0.000** .873
Perceived
enjoyment
0.240 2.899 0.004** .803
Perceived
self-efficacy
0.277 4.150 0.000** .894
Note: **p<0.01, *p<0.05, n.s. denotes not significant
As recommended by Pikkarainen et al. (2004), the independent variables of the current
study were aggregated. This includes perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use,
perceived credibility, perceived enjoyment and perceived self-efficacy. The similar
approach is also extended to the dependent variable. As displayed in Table 2, perceived
usefulness had a weak relationship to the mobile banking use (t=1.005, p-value=0.317).
The results are somehow contradicted with the study Guriting and Ndubisi (2006) and
Ramayah and Mohd-Suki (2006) who generated a significant relationship between
perceived usefulness and IS adoption. The similar result is also extended for perceived
ease of use. Perceived ease of use had an insignificant relationship to the mobile
banking use (t=1.319, p-value=0.189). The results produce a contradiction as compared
to the original TAM (Davis, 1989), where perceived usefulness and perceived ease of
use were significant predictors for IS adoption. Furthermore, the present study is
inconsistent to what was found by Luarn and Lin (2005). Luarn and Lin (2005) found a
significant relationship between perceived ease of use and mobile banking adoption. In
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short, the two TAM’s constructs are not the predictors for mobile banking use. On the
other hand, the added explanatory variables have found to be significant.
Perceived credibility had a significant relationship to the mobile banking use (t=4.431, p-
value=0.000). The previous argument from Ramayah and Ling (2002) and Pikkarainen
et al. (2004) are consistent with the current result, which indicated that perceived
credibility affects individual decision to use the system. Similarly, perceived enjoyment
and perceived self-efficacy were also had a significant relationship to the mobile banking
use with (t=2.899, p-value=0.004) and (t=4.150, p-value=0.000) respectively. The latter
is consistent to what was found by Pikkarainen et al. (2004) and Nysveen et al. (2005).
The former is consistent to what was Luarn and Lin (2005) and Wang et al. (2003)
found. Overall, out of 5 hypotheses, only three hypotheses were rejected namely H3, H4
and H5 whilst H1 and H2 were not rejected.
CONCLUSION AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
This study has discussed mobile banking acceptance among Sabahan bank customers
in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Eastern-Malaysia, Malaysia. The result of this study
demonstrates that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have low impact on
mobile banking use. On the other hand, perceived credibility, perceived enjoyment and
perceived self-efficacy were found to be very important patronage factors for mobile
banking use.
.088n.s.
.097n.s.
.282**
.240**
.277**
Note: **p<0.01, *p<0.05, n.s. denotes not significant
Figure 2: Analyzed modified model for mobile banking
This study evidently has shown that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are
found to be insignificant to the mobile banking use. This explains that Sabahan bank
Perceived
credibility
Perceived
usefulness
Perceived
self-efficacy
Perceived
ease of use
Mobile banking
use
70.1%
Perceived
enjoyment
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customers possess little awareness about the usefulness and ease of mobile banking
use. Placing a banner that carries the title of “Mobile Banking Is Your Future Bank” at
bank branches is possible to escalate one’s familiarity with regard to mobile banking
services. Similarly, more brochures should be made available at the branches for mobile
banking to encourage effective mobile banking information dissemination. Importantly,
bank officers can also address the usefulness of mobile banking to bank customers
when it is necessary. These efforts are at least able to elevate bank customers’
knowledge on the usefulness and ease of use of mobile banking services.
The added variables namely perceived credibility and perceived self-efficacy have a
strong influence over the mobile banking use. The bank management therefore should
render focus on the issue of perceived credibility. Matters on security need to be
effectively mentioned in brochures/booklet of mobile banking. This helps to instill
confidence of prospective users. Concerned with perceived self-efficacy, people
relatively possess little skills in operating mobile banking services. Opening e-banking
counters would at least able to facilitate the use of mobile banking services.
Since mobile phone is viewed as an entertainment gadget to some individuals, therefore
perceived enjoyment can play an essential role in expounding mobile banking use. The
present study reported that perceived enjoyment had a significant affect to the mobile
banking use. In order to reduce bank tendency to the manufacturers such as Erikson,
Samsung and Nokia, it is therefore possible for them to work on collaboration in order to
create a friendlier device of mobile phone that incorporates the function of banking
transactions and also the inclusion of multimedia elements that promote perceived
enjoyment whilst one’s performing banking transactions. This explains that mobile phone
is not only a gadget for communications but also for interactive banking transactions.
Particularly, this study suffered from three limitations. Firstly, this study examined the
local ethnic communities from Sabah with respect to their perceptions on the mobile
banking usage intentions. This means that the sample used in this study is referred to a
particular geography only in which it is not be fully generalizable to other users groups in
other geographies. It is of utmost importance for future studies to include other
geographies in order to meeting the generalization of the finding to other environments.
Secondly, this study is based on behavioral intention of individual for mobile banking
use. This explains that different factors perhaps influence those who are actually use
mobile banking. In order to tackle this limitation, the future research could be working on
a study that investigates user and non-user of mobile banking not only in Sabah but also
other states in Malaysia. Thirdly, this study results revealed the original constructs of
TAM, namely “perceived usefulness” and “perceived ease of use” are found to be
insignificant. These explanatory factors have limited impacts on the mobile banking
acceptance among Sabahan bank customers. Future studies should re-work on the
factors using comprehensive samples in order to yield significant results.
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