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To cite this article: Mugdha Y. Keskar & Neeraj Pandey (2018): Internet banking: a review
(2002–2016), Journal of Internet Commerce, DOI: 10.1080/15332861.2018.1451969
ABSTRACT KEYWORDS
This paper presents an exhaustive review of literature on the Adoption; customer
current developments in internet banking. It provides an over- satisfaction; e-service
view of the changes as well as the ongoing research on inter- quality; internet
banking; trust
net banking. To identify relevant works, research databases
were searched using 11 keywords. Only research papers on
internet banking published in the last 15 years (2002–2016)
were selected. The selected articles were further refined on
the basis of country of origin, journal type, and research meth-
ods used for data analysis. Finally, 51 papers were selected
on the basis of specific inclusion criteria for further analysis.
These papers were grouped by research themes, and customer
satisfaction with internet banking was identified as the most
common theme.
Introduction
Globally, the financial services sector has witnessed considerable changes
in the last few years. One such significant change is the adoption of
self-service technologies (SSTs) by banking organizations to reduce their
operational costs (Loonam and O’Loughlin 2008). The use of telecommuni-
cation and information technology (IT) in banking began in the 1990s,
with some American banks launching their e-banking services as early as
1992 (Sikdar, Kumar, and Makkad 2015). Since then, the emergence of
e-banking has revolutionized the banking sector (Yang 2009; Ariff et al.
2013). Today, banks are being replaced by mobile phones, tablets, and lap-
tops. Changing socioeconomic trends and advances in SSTs have enabled a
vast number of people to access banking services. Customers are willing to
pay a price for these services provided that they are assured of convenience
and better turnaround time (Pandey, Mehta, and Roy 2017).
Customers use online banking services to pay utility bills, check balances,
transfer money, download bank statements, and order checkbooks
(Yang 2009). Banks have come to resemble television news channels: avail-
able 24/7. According to Casalo, Flavian, Guinalıu (2007), e-banking is a vir-
tual channel for availing banking services “anytime and anywhere.”
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The next section summa-
rizes previous literature reviews on internet banking with an objective to
provide continuity to the research. Subsequently, we present the method-
ology adopted for conducting this review. The findings are described in the
discussion section and, finally, we present the conclusions, limitations, and
future directions for research.
Research methodology
Data collection for the literature review was completed in two phases:
primary filtration and classification of articles vis-a-vis inter-rater
reliability.
advances in SSTs, cloud computing, green banking, etc. were also consid-
ered because conference papers are usually indicators of future research to
be published in journals (Awasthi and Sangle 2012, Daulatkar and Sangle
2015). To find relevant articles, we searched nine databases: EBSCO,
Emerald, Elsevier, Springer, Google Scholar, JSTOR, ProQuest,
ScienceDirect, and Taylor & Francis. Eleven keywords were used as search
terms: “internet banking,” “online banking,” “adoption of online banking,”
“e-service quality,” “e-customer satisfaction,” “customer satisfaction in
banking,” “self-service technologies (SST),” “trust in internet banking,”
“customer loyalty in internet banking,” “website impact on internet bank-
ing,” and “service quality models.” A broad search on internet banking
yielded 900 articles. For example, we used the advanced search function in
Ebsco using a combination of keywords. This yielded 414 research papers.
Dissertations for master’s and doctoral degrees were not considered; articles
published in peer-reviewed journals are considered optimal for research
purposes (Awasthi and Sangle 2012).
Chapters in books were also not included as they are typically not peer-
reviewed. However, relevant case studies from reputed universities were
included in the review. Abstracts were thoroughly scanned for content rele-
vancy to the subject. Subsequently, all papers were thoroughly examined for
content relevancy. Thus, the number of research papers to be reviewed was
reduced from 414 to 103. This number was further reduced to a final figure
of 51 articles, after criterion-based examination. Only one research paper
from the same country was selected after thorough analysis of numerous
papers on internet banking from the same country. The other criteria for
selection were year of publication, sample size, methods used for data ana-
lysis, content, and research complexity.
Conclusions
This study reviewed research articles on internet banking published during
a span of 15 years (2002 to 2016). The review adopted a multidisciplinary
approach, examining literature on internet banking from various fields
such as marketing, finance, IT cybersecurity, cloud computing, and green
JOURNAL OF INTERNET COMMERCE 9
e-banking. Broadly, studies on the subject suggest that banks should train
and help customers access internet banking services as doing so can gener-
ate considerable cost savings for the banks.
Further, because internet banking helps banks overcome the practical dif-
ficulties of opening branches in remote areas, it allows them to target new
geographical regions without heavy financial investment in physical assets.
Good website design, customization, reliability, and faster and accurate task
completion can enhance customer satisfaction levels among internet bank-
ing users. Banks should focus on providing privacy and security features to
boost customer confidence. Our review indicates that issues such as cyber-
security, trust, and website design and their effects on customer satisfaction,
customer loyalty, customer retention, IT governance and third-party assur-
ance seals, customer tendency to switch, green e-banking, and cloud com-
puting have not been investigated in depth. These avenues present ample
scope for further research.
Although customers’ security and risk concerns have been acknowledged,
only one research article by Littler and Melanthiou (2006) has specifically
addressed this issue. The adoption of internet banking can be enhanced by
allowing customers to experience “trust” (Goudarzi et al. 2013; Yu, Balaji,
and Wei Khong 2015). Huang et al. (2011) examined the trust model and
IT governance and highlighted the importance of third-party assurance
seals on the security features provided by online banks. Further research
should be undertaken on this topic.
Lekakos, Vlachos, and Koritos (2014) explored green e-banking initia-
tives—a new research area within the banking domain. Nagaraju and
Parthiban (2015) developed a secure cloud-based framework for online
banking using multifactor biometric fingerprint authentication. Such
research on the use of public clouds by online banks can yield promising
results: It can lead to better accessibility and safe banking environments for
customers in addition to cost savings for the banks. Our review showed
that the majority of research on internet banking has been conducted in
Europe and the United States. There is a dearth of research on the subject
in countries such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, and
Japan, which could offer important and useful insights.
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