Journal
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 331-344Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2014.08.004
Keywords
mobile payment; collective action; banks; telecom operators; collaboration; near field communication; service platform
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Mobile payment has long been discussed but has still not reached mass market in Western societies. Banks and telecom operators often struggle to develop platforms for authorization and authentication of mobile payment services. This paper analyses an in-depth case on collaboration between three major Dutch banks and three Dutch telecom operators who jointly developed a trusted service manager for mobile payment. Collective action theory and platform theory is combined to study the issues of collaboration and competition between banks and operators. We find that differing strategic objectives and interests, conflicts, lack of dependencies and governance issues led to dissolution of the mobile payment platform. These problems partly result from platform characteristics of openness to third parties, governance of relations with third parties and platform competition. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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