Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data

Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model: Four Longitudinal Field : .

Big TAM in Oman: Exploring the promise of on-line banking, its adoption by customers and the challenges of banking in Oman

Digital payment and banking adoption research in Gulf countries: A systematic literature review

Information technology Services is considered as tkey driver for the changes taking place around the world. Internet banking (IB) is the latest and most innovative serviceand is the new trend among the consumers . The shift from the formal banking to e-banking has been a 'leap' change. This study deter mines the factors influencing the consumer's adoption of internet banking in India and hence investigates the influence of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived risk on use of IB. It is an essential part of a bank's strategy formulation process in an emerging economy like India. Survey based questionnaire design with empirical test was carried out. The results have supported the hypothesis.

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Internet Banking Adoption in an Emerging Economy: Indian Consumer's Perspective

In recent years, the adoption of electronic banking (e-banking) began to occur quite extensively as a channel of distribution for financial services due to rapid advances in information technology (IT) and intensive competitive banking markets. Despite this growth of IT worldwide, Omani banks continue to conduct most of their banking transactions using traditional methods. Understanding the reasons for the lack of such technological innovation in developing countries such as Oman will develop a fruitful research. This paper will address what are the enablers and the inhibitors of e-banking adoption in the Omani banking industry. In this study, four perceptions issues were explored: relative advantage; organizational performance, customer relationship and ease of use. From an analysis of 15 semistructured interviews, the findings revealed that all these four perceptions issues jointly provided an excellent understanding of what were the enablers and inhibitors of e-banking adoption.

The Adoption of e-Banking: The Case of Omani Banks

The banking industry in Oman is of major importance to Oman’s economy, yet Omani banks continue to conduct most of their transactions using traditional methods A strong banking industry significantly supports economic development through efficient financial services, and their role in trying to achieve the objectives outlined by the Sultan of Oman will depend heavily on the industry’s capabilities Omni banks will need to introduce change at both procedural and informational levels that includes moving from traditional distribution channel banking to electronic channel banking This paper addresses the question: What are the enablers and the inhibitors of Internet technology adoption in the Omani banking industry
compared with those in the Australian banking industry? The paper does not attempt a direct comparison of the banking industries in these two very different countries, but rather presents a discussion of Internet technology adoption in Oman, informed by the more mature Australian experience

Adoption of Internet Technology by the Banking Industry in Oman: A Study Informed by the Australian Experience

Omani banks continue to conduct most of their banking transactions using traditional methods. Given the prevalence of Internet technology adoption by the banking industry in developed countries, reasons for the lack of such innovation in developing countries such as Oman is of interest in any consideration of technological innovation. After providing some background on Internet banking, this article considers various factors that might act to determine whether a given technology is likely to be adopted by the banking industry in a developing country such as Oman, by comparison with a developed country like Australia. Data was collected from interviews with bank managers in each country, based on a consideration of each bank manager’s perceptions of four factors that might affect their decisions to adopt, or not adopt Internet technologies: Relative Advantage, Organisational Performance, Customer/ Organisational Relationship and Ease of Use. It thus addresses the question: What are the enablers and the inhibitors of Internet technology adoption in the Omani banking industry compared with those in the Australian banking industry?

Technological Innovation and the Adoption of Internet Banking in Oman

To fully benefit from moving to new national economies an up-to-date banking industry is important, but Omani banks continue to conduct most of their banking transactions using traditional methods. This paper reports on research to investigate inhibitors and enablers of Internet banking in Oman, comparing this to the situation in Australia. Data was collected from interviews with bank managers in each country, based on a consideration of each bank manager’s perceptions of four factors that might affect their decisions to adopt, or not adopt Internet technologies: Relative Advantage, Organisational Performance, Customer/ Organisational Relationship and Ease of Use. It is hoped that the results will be useful in seeing why Omani banks have been slow to adopt Internet technology and to encourage them to make the change.

Inhibitors and Enablers to Internet Banking in Oman - A Comparison with Banks in Australia

The current research examined the relationship of green human resource management practices with employees’ retention in the pharmaceutical industry of Oman. The study also checked the mediating effect of work engagement in the relationships of Green HRM practices with employee retention. Following the current purpose, the study targeted employees in the pharmaceutical industry as the unit of analyses. Five hundred seventy-six respondents were selected through simple random sampling. Data were collected through a self-administrative questionnaire. Collected data was screened through SPSS23, which concluded with 349 usable questionnaires for data analysis and assessment. Structural equation modeling via Smart PLS 3.2.8 was employed to test the proposed model. The findings of the study show a positive but insignificant association of green HRM practices toward employee retention. However, the study found a significant positive influence of green HRM practices with work engagement and work engagement with employee retention. The study also reported the mediation of work engagement in the green HRM and employee retention relationship. The findings of the study have contributed theoretically and practically.

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Salim Al-Hajri

Papers

The Adoption of e-Banking: The Case of Omani Banks

Adoption of Internet Technology by the Banking Industry in Oman: A Study Informed by the Australian Experience

Technological Innovation and the Adoption of Internet Banking in Oman

Inhibitors and Enablers to Internet Banking in Oman - A Comparison with Banks in Australia

Employee Retention in light of Green HRM practices through the Intervening role of Work Engagement