The influence of attitudinal factors of SME owner-managers on adoption of financial products
Rasheed, Rabia1, Maria Abdul Rahman2, Bhutta, Rashid3.
Given the key role of owner managers in the decision making process, understanding socio-psychological
factors of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) financial behavior has often been prescribed as an
important research direction. In accordance with the above, present study in context of Pakistan
investigated the attitudinal factors of SMEs owner-managers’ towards adoption of financial products. The
attitudinal factors are depicted as perceived relative advantage, perceived compatibility and perceived
complexity. The proposed model has been adapted, which is composed of decomposed theory of planned
behavior (DTPB) and decomposed attitudinal factors of SMEs owner-manager to investigate their intention
to adopt financial products in Pakistan. Relying on a survey research design, and following stratified
sampling method, after screening process 285 owner-managers responses have been considered for further
analysis. The findings revealed that perceived relative advantage and perceived compatibility possess
significant positive relationships with owner-manager attitude towards adoption of financial product which
further significantly predicts behavioral intention. Moreover, perceived complexity has negative but
significant relationship with SMEs owner-manager attitude towards adoption of financial products. SMEs
owner-managers exhibit serious concern towards formal financial products adoption, the policy makers
are suggested to focus on creating specialized products which are useful, compatible and easy to
understand for SMEs owner-manager in Pakistan.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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