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Exploring Barriers Mobile Payments Adoption: A Case Study of Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia

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Mobile payment is the new paradigm shift to use as an efficient electronic method to pay in daily life as an alternative of cash, debit or credit. This study explores the barriers of mobile payment adoption among Saudi individuals in Majmaah University either students, staff, or faculty. The researcher conducted a survey among participants in Majmaah University, only 198 completed the survey. The researcher studied the mobile payment among this population specifically because there is no prior study investigated of this topic. It is also a developing city which is the future of Sudair. It is improving very quick in all areas especially education, industrial, and digitally. The survey conducted in October 2018 until December 2018. The author acquired the following results, it identified security was a barrier to adopt mobile payment in Majmaah University.

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The author would like to thank Deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University for supporting this work under Project Number No. 1439-45.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Information Technology College, Majmaah University, Al Majma’ah, 11952, Saudi Arabia

    Rana Alabdan

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  1. Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Auhood Alfaries

  2. Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Hanan Mengash

  3. Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

    Ansar Yasar

  4. Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada

    Elhadi Shakshuki

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Alabdan, R. (2019). Exploring Barriers Mobile Payments Adoption: A Case Study of Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia. In: Alfaries, A., Mengash, H., Yasar, A., Shakshuki, E. (eds) Advances in Data Science, Cyber Security and IT Applications. ICC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1098. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36368-0_13

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