Information Systems Review (경영정보학연구)
- Volume 14 Issue 3
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- Pages.75-97
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- 2012
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- 2982-6551(pISSN)
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- 2982-6837(eISSN)
The Role of Control Transparency and Outcome Feedback on Security Protection in Online Banking
계좌 이용 과정과 결과의 투명성이 온라인 뱅킹 이용자의 보안 인식에 미치는 영향
- Lee, Un-Kon (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University) ;
- Choi, Ji Eun (School of Business, Yonsei University) ;
- Lee, Ho Geun (School of Business, Yonsei University)
- Received : 2012.11.19
- Accepted : 2012.12.27
- Published : 2012.12.31
Abstract
Fostering trusting belief in financial transactions is a challenging task in Internet banking services. Authenticated Certificate had been regarded as an effective method to guarantee the trusting belief for online transactions. However, previous research claimed that this method has some loopholes for such abusers as hackers, who intend to attack the financial accounts of innocent transactors in Internet. Two types of methods have been suggested as alternatives for securing user identification and activity in online financial services. Control transparency uses information over the transaction process to verify and to control the transactions. Outcome feedback, which refers to the specific information about exchange outcomes, provides information over final transaction results. By using these two methods, financial service providers can send signals to involved parties about the robustness of their security mechanisms. These two methods-control transparency and outcome feedback-have been widely used in the IS field to enhance the quality of IS services. In this research, we intend to verify that these two methods can also be used to reduce risks and to increase the security protections in online banking services. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the effects of the control transparency and the outcome feedback on the risk perceptions in Internet banking services. Our assumption is that these two methods-control transparency and outcome feedback-can reduce perceived risks involved with online financial transactions, while increasing perceived trust over financial service providers. These changes in user attitudes can increase the level of user satisfactions, which may lead to the increased user loyalty as well as users' willingness to pay for the financial transactions. Previous research in IS suggested that the increased level of transparency on the process and the result of transactions can enhance the information quality and decision quality of IS users. Transparency helps IS users to acquire the information needed to control the transaction counterpart and thus to complete transaction successfully. It is also argued that transparency can reduce the perceived transaction risks in IS usage. Many IS researchers also argued that the trust can be generated by the institutional mechanisms. Trusting belief refers to the truster's belief for the trustee to have attributes for being beneficial to the truster. Institution-based trust plays an important role to enhance the probability of achieving a successful outcome. When a transactor regards the conditions crucial for the transaction success, he or she considers the condition providers as trustful, and thus eventually trust the others involved with such condition providers. In this process, transparency helps the transactor complete the transaction successfully. Through the investigation of these studies, we expect that the control transparency and outcome feedback can reduce the risk perception on transaction and enhance the trust with the service provider. Based on a theoretical framework of transparency and institution-based trust, we propose and test a research model by evaluating research hypotheses. We have conducted a laboratory experiment in order to validate our research model. Since the transparency artifact(control transparency and outcome feedback) is not yet adopted in online banking services, the general survey method could not be employed to verify our research model. We collected data from 138 experiment subjects who had experiences with online banking services. PLS is used to analyze the experiment data. The measurement model confirms that our data set has appropriate convergent and discriminant validity. The results of testing the structural model indicate that control transparency significantly enhances the trust and significantly reduces the risk perception of online banking users. The result also suggested that the outcome feedback significantly enhances the trust of users. We have found that the reduced risk and the increased trust level significantly improve the level of service satisfaction. The increased satisfaction finally leads to the increased loyalty and willingness to pay for the financial services.
온라인 뱅킹 서비스의 성공을 위해서는 이용 고객의 신뢰를 제고하는 것이 필수적이다. 현재까지 인터넷 뱅킹 이용자들의 신뢰를 제고하는 보안 메커니즘으로 공인인증 서비스가 가장 유력한 대안으로 사용되어 왔다. 그러나 최근 공인인증서를 통한 보안 메커니즘은 해커 등 악의적인 사용자의 침입에 취약할 수 있다는 주장이 제기되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 온라인 뱅킹 보안 메커니즘의 견고성을 높이기 위한 추가적인 대안으로 공인인증서 사용과 관련된 과정의 투명성과 결과 피드백의 투명성이라는 두 가지 요소를 제안하였다. 과정의 투명성은 거래과정에 대한 정보를 이용자에게 제공함으로써 거래 과정을 통제할 수 있도록 하는 것이다. 결과 피드백은 거래결과를 이용자에게 알려줌으로써 이용자가 거래가 의도한 대로 완료되었음을 확인할 수 있도록 하는 것이다. 정보의 투명성에 관한 선행 연구에 따르면, 거래과정과 결과에 대한 정보를 제공하여 투명성을 제고하면 정보시스템 이용자의 의사결정 품질이 제고된다. 거래과정에 대한 정보의 투명성이 확보되면, 정보시스템 이용자들은 거래가 원활하게 수행되고 있는지를 확인할 수 있게 되고, 거래 과정과 결과를 자신이 의도한 대로 통제할 수 있게 되기 때문에, 이용자들의 거래 위험을 감소시킬 수 있다. "구조기반 신뢰" 에 대한 연구에 따르면, 정보시스템 이용자들은 자신들이 성공적으로 거래를 할 수 있도록 구조적인 요소를 제공하는 서비스 제공자들을 보다 신뢰하는 속성이 있다. 거래과정과 거래결과를 확인할 수 있는 정보의 투명성은 정보시스템 이용자가 거래를 원활하게 추진할 수 있는 구조적 기반을 제공하므로 서비스 제공자에 대한 신뢰는 증가하게 된다. 거래 위험이 감소하고 신뢰가 증가되면, 이용자들은 제공되는 서비스에 대해 보다 만족하게 되고, 따라서 서비스 제공자에 대해 충성도가 제고되거나 서비스에 대해 지불 의사를 가지게 될 것이다. 본 연구에서는 실험실 실험을 통해 연구 가설 및 연구 모델을 실증적으로 검증하고자 하였다. 실험설계는 과정의 투명성과 결과의 투명성이라는 두 가지 요인에 따라
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