Title: Modelling customers' intentions to use contactless cards

Authors: Michal Polasik; Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski; Geoffrey Lightfoot

Addresses: Department of Finance, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Ul. Gagarina 13a, 87-100 Torun, Poland ' School of Management, University of Leicester, Ken Edwards Building, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK ' School of Management, University of Leicester, Ken Edwards Building, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

Abstract: Since their introduction in the USA in 2002, contactless card payment systems have been widely regarded as the pinnacle of current retail banking technology. However, the potential demand and usage of this innovation has hitherto received little attention from the academic community. Ours is one of the first papers that explore the factors that are likely to govern acceptance and intentions to take-up the technology. The analysis utilises the methodological framework of the technology acceptance model (Davis, 1989; Davis et al., 1989) and develops a range of empirical representations. Our results lend support to the TAM conceptualisation and also indicate that some demographic characteristics imprint upon the intentions of potential users.

Keywords: contactless cards; debit cards; radio frequency identification; RFID; technology acceptance model; TAM; retail payments; Poland; retail banking; modelling; customer intentions; contactless cards; consumer intentions; demographics; card payment systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBAAF.2012.051590

International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2012 Vol.4 No.3, pp.203 - 231

Accepted: 07 Dec 2011
Published online: 23 Aug 2014 *

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