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Alliance Cooperation Joint ATM Network: Exploring The Banking Sector in Indonesia
Alliance Cooperation Joint ATM Network: Exploring The Banking Sector in Indonesia
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11,3 Alliance cooperation joint ATM
network: exploring the banking
sector in Indonesia
342 Krisna Damayanti
Department of Accounting, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Indonesia Surabaya,
Received 30 October 2018 Surabaya, Indonesia, and
Revised 30 January 2019
18 February 2019
Accepted 27 February 2019
Lydia Setyawardani
Department of Taxation, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Indonesia Surabaya,
Surabaya, Indonesia
Abstract
Purpose – This study aims to determine the factors that encourage Indonesian banks to collaborate in the
banking networks ATM Prima and ATM Bersama to achieve business efficiencies.
Design/methodology/approach – A combination of methods is used to collect both qualitative and
quantitative data. Factor analysis and different testing technics are used. The data were obtained through
interviews with managers of the banks involved in the two banking networks included in this study.
Findings – This research addresses ATM banking from three perspectives: banks that collaborate in ATM
networks, banks that are joint ATM providers and banking customers that use ATMs. The results show that
the banks in the study are more concerned about cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiencies in both the
operational and investment aspects of supporting their ATM infrastructures. ATM providers place more
importance on creating the most user-friendly, stable, wide-ranging and continuous system of services by
collaborating with other banks in networks that provide ATM services. Customers put more importance on
paying the minimum possible administration fees and the availability of specific banking services across a
wide area.
Research limitations/implications – This research took place over a period of only one year. This
limited the depth of the data collected. A longer study using data that cover more than one fiscal year would
have generated more detailed information.
Practical implications – This study places importance on maximizing cost-efficiencies to keep bank fees
low for customers. There are significant investment and operational costs associated with setting up and
operating ATMs and of adding and managing additional ATMs. This is particularly so in an era when their
use is on the decline owing to the increasing use of electronic banking.
Social implications – The social implications of ATM banking refer to the reduced administration fees
customers pay as banks incur cost savings from collaborating on infrastructure and services. The availability
of ATMs from specific banks could be replaced by one joint ATM machine that is situated in a specific area
where electronic banking is not available. Banks’ customers tend to move to other banking services, and this
means banks could lose a lot of their existing customers unless they can come up with unique services that are
both accessible and user-friendly.
The ATM Bersama and ATM Prima are alliances that were formed among banking
companies that wished to expand the introduction of new technologies to better serve their
consumer. These companies also wished to strengthen their banking products and services,
such as through ATM cards and networks, so as to attract more customers.
Marketing performance
A company’s main purpose in entering into an alliance is to develop relationships with
partners that can help them improve their performance. Performance is measured in terms
of a company’s sales volume and growth, its number of customers and its profitability (Voss
and Voss, 2000). Dussauge and Garrette (1998) state that the purpose of a few large
companies forming a strategic alliance is to develop their businesses.
Business efficiency
A business is said to be efficient if it makes appropriate operational use of its budget. A
company’s inability to control its budgeted expenditures could result in waste or
inefficiency. Various technological innovations could help a company reduce its operating
costs and manage its production optimally. In the banking business, the provision of low-
cost banking services to business owners could help them achieve cost-efficiencies
(Saraswat and Jadhav, 2013). A business’s objective is to maximize profits by using its
existing resources to the fullest possible extent (Kozak, 2005).
Previous studies
Rizal (2006) analysed the factors that influenced the success of the banks that had formed an
alliance under ATM Bersama, an inter-banking network in Indonesia. The researcher
surveyed the heads and deputy heads of these banks and their divisions; 108 of these
employees completed and returned the survey. The survey questions were designed to
obtain qualitative data on the variables “commitment”, “reputation”, “trust” and “shared
decision-making” in terms of how these factors influenced the success of the companies in
the alliance and, thus, the alliance itself. The variable “influence the success of an alliance”
was compared against the variable “marketing performance”. The data analysis tool used
was the structural equation model (SEM) AMOS 5.0.
Jegede (2014) examined the effects of the ATM infrastructure on the success of the
e-payment system in Nigeria and whether its use was motivated by customers’ low levels of
satisfaction with the e-payment services banks provide through ATMs. The analysis was
mainly based on the primary data collected from ATM users. A total of 1,141 ATM users Banking sector
were interviewed on their ATM banking experiences. The weighted scores of the ATM-user in Indonesia
responses to the success factors identified in the literature were analysed by using factor
analysis model simulations. The five groups in the study modelled strategic decisions that
were made in situations where the infrastructure’s inadequate quality was identified as
being the most important restriction for an efficient ATM e-payment system. This study
found that the provision of an adequate infrastructure, such as a reliable electricity system,
is very important for the Nigerian banking system to effectively integrate into a global 345
network of electronic payments via ATMs. The findings point to the need for all
stakeholders to make an effort to resolve the energy crisis in that country.
Methodology
This study uses qualitative methods to collect information, such as focus group discussions.
This approach is considered to be in line with the objectives of this study because it
explores, in depth, the advantages of implementing a joint ATM banking business
(Sugiyono, 2007).
This study first sampled banks that joined the networks ATM Bersama and ATM
Prima. Next, it selected the respondents, namely, middle managers from each bank in these
two networks. In-depth interviews were conducted to determine the advantages of using the
strategic network systems provided under ATM Bersama and ATM Prima. The objective
was to determine the indicators of the efficiencies these networks offer the banking business.
Figure 1 shows this research’s road map.
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Surabaya is more representative and dynamic in terms of customers’ funds and absorption.
Research objectives
The aim of this research is to educate customers on the benefits of ATMs; to identify why
their banks had decided to participate in the networks ATM Bersama or ATM Prima; and
how using the technology provided in a network system can help the banking sector gain a
strong foothold in Indonesia and survive and even thrive in the era of globalization.
Conceptual framework
This study was conducted to determine the strategic advantages gained by the banks
included in the ATM networks ATM Prima or ATM Bersama. It did so by examining the
factors that encouraged these banks to join either of these networks in relation to achieving
the objective of business efficiency. Figure 2 presents the full conceptual framework of this
research.
This research technique uses several systematic stages that comprise the concepts of
reduction-process phenomenology (horizonalization, clusters of meaning and textural
description) and imaginative variations (structural description). The synthesis between the
meaning and essence of these two concepts (Creswell, 2007) is as follows: first, researchers
R.S.I.P. Public relations manager executive External public relations Bank Negara Indonesia, Jakarta
Table I. M.A. Account manager executive Financial Bank Central Asia, Jombang
Details of K.P. Operational credit manager executive Financial systems Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Surabaya
respondents D.S. Operational manager executive Systems Analysist Bank Mandiri, Surabaya
organize all the data or a comprehensive picture of the experience for which the data have Banking sector
been gathered. Here, researchers re-examine all the data mainly in terms of completeness, in Indonesia
clarity of meaning, appropriateness and relevance. Second, they note the data that are
important and encoded these. Third, researchers find and classify the meaning of the
research question/statement as the respondents perceived it to be. The researcher then
eliminates overlapping questions and statements that are not relevant to the topic of the
study. This ensures that the remaining horizons do not include data that are not textural,
elemental or constituent of a phenomenon being studied. The data that do not fit these 347
criteria are eliminated so there are no irregularities. Fourth, the relevant statements are
collected into units of meaning (units/clusters of meaning) and then the researcher writes an
overview of how the experience occurred. Fifth, the researcher develops a textural description
(of the phenomenon of what happened to the respondent) and a structural description
(explaining how the phenomenon occurred). Sixth, the researcher provides a narrative of the
essence of the phenomenon under study and acquires meaning about the respondents’
experiences of the phenomenon. Seventh, a combination of the pictorial (composite
description) and written description is used to find the phenomenon of the research.
Conclusions
This research found three success factors in Indonesian banks’ efforts to become strong and
competitive in a globalized world:
(1) being committed to maintaining the fullest cooperation with their partners in a
network alliance;
(2) engendering trust by being reliable and credible and having the ability to
encourage all partners to agree and cooperate on the arrangement; and
(3) sharing decision-making in the established partnerships by conducting board
meetings to resolve operational, developmental or cooperative issues.
This research also found that important relationships were developed among the following:
(1) banks that set up the best strategic infrastructures and operational systems;
(2) providers that placed importance on creating the easiest and most user-friendly,
stable, wide-reaching and continuous system of services in collaboration with their
partners; and
(3) customers who wished to pay the minimum possible administration fees, while
having access to specific bank services across a wide range of areas.
For Indonesian banks to further improve their efficiency, participating in the use of ATM
machines through new joint ATM networks is a definite option. Banks’ participation in joint
ATM use saves on the costs of investing in and maintaining these cash machines. This,
Figure 3.
Relations among the THE SYSTEM
THE CUSTOMER
Bank, the Providers PROVIDER
and the Customer
combined with the ATM’s information systems, will provide more savings and improve Banking sector
banking efficiency. in Indonesia
Further research goal
The next study could research what third-party customers would consider a variety of good
banking services. Such a study would address the more visible advantages and benefits
both banks and customers could benefit from.
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Corresponding author
Krisna Damayanti can be contacted at: krisnadamayanti2013@gmail.com
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