An Innovative Study of E-Payment Systems Adoption in  Higher Education: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical  Analysis

A. Salloum, Said; Al-Emran, Mostafa; Khalaf, Rifat; Habes, Mohammed; Shaalan, Khaled

An Innovative Study of E-Payment Systems Adoption in Higher Education: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Analysis

Date

2019

Authors

Publisher

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies

Abstract

Examining the adoption of e-payment systems is not a new research topic. Nevertheless, studying the factors affecting the adoption of epayment systems in higher educational institutions is a new research trend. Thus, this study is considered one of the few that attempts to investigate the fac tors affecting the e-payment systems adoption in six different universities in the United Arab of Emirates (UAE). A total number of 289 students took part in the study. This study proposed a new research model in which the students’ intention to use the e-payment systems are affected by five different factors including perceived benefit, performance expectancy, perceived risk, perceived security/privacy, and trust. The partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach was used to validate the research model. The empirical results suggested that perceived benefit and performance expectancy have a significant positive relationship with the students’ intention to use e-payment systems, whereas perceived security/privacy and perceived risk exhibited a significant negative relationship. However, the results triggered out that trust has an insignificant relationship with the students’ intention to use e-payment systems. The results acquired from this research provide a fresh and an up-to-date information on the e-payment systems adoption in the higher educational institutions.

Keywords

E- payment, adoption, higher education, structural equation model-ing, UAE

Citation

Said A. Salloum et al. (2019) “An Innovative Study of E-Payment Systems Adoption in Higher Education: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Analysis,” International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 13(06), pp. 68–83.