Simple mobile banking: Learning from developing countries

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 485-497

  Gómez Barroso, José Luis ^a   Marbán Flores, Raquel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Development; Financial services; Innovation; Mobile banking; Mobile communications; Mobile money

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907008577     PISSN: 17510252     EISSN: 17510260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2014.064610     Document Type: Article

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