Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Breslau, 1932. / Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-xv).

This master's thesis deals with the design of a suitable payment system for a newly emerging e-shop. It analyzes the e-business environment and informs about existing payment methods, their advantages and disadvantages. Last but not least, this thesis deals with the development of electronic payments in the Czech Republic. The main part of the work is the analysis of various payment methods and their comparison on several levels.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper to fill the research gap of lack ofcross-country studies in Germany, Hungary and Sweden in thecontext of online and mobile payment adaption and usage. Research Questions: The authors of this study aim at answering the followingquestion: What are the main similarities and differences in onlineand mobile payment acceptance in Germany, Hungary andSweden in the age group of 18-35?Theoretical Framework:The theoretical framework presents prevalent theories aboutfactors which are connected to online and mobilepayment. In addition, the Technical Acceptance Model wasused as a base for the conceptual framework developed by theauthors.Methodology: This study includes both qualitative and quantitative primarydata. The conducted survey resulted in 1016 answers; out of these869 answers were eligible. In addition, 150 companies wereasked and 30 qualitative interviews (10 per each country) wereconducted.Analysis: The analysis aimed at investigating how the acceptance of theusage of online and mobile payment differs among Germany,Hungary Sweden. Thereby, the following factors wereinvestigated: (1) perceived ease of use, (2) perceived usefulness,(3) perceived security, (4) perceived risk, (5) social influence, (6)information asymmetry and (7) intention to use. Conclusion: The findings of this cross-country study showed that Germany,Hungary and Sweden show a relatively similar level ofacceptance in online payment. In contrast, the acceptance in thecontext of mobile payment differed greatly. Whereas Swedenshowed a high level of acceptance, Germany and Hungaryshowed a relatively moderate level of acceptance.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1973. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-179). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Since National Health Insurance (NHI) was practiced in 1995,its public satisfaction was nearly 70% in the first year while the financial status got worse and worse years by years (15.3 billion of deficit in 1999,27.8 B deficits in Y2000, and around 37.7 B in Y2001). Therefore, Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) had to not only care about cost saving, social fairness but also maintain medical care quality. In order to balance the worse finance, BNHI enforced many strategies, such as case payment (1997), outpatient and inpatient co-payment, high rejection rate of requested medical cases, global budget (Dental clinic in 1998, Chinese ambulatory in 2000, primary-cared clinics in 2001/07, hospital in 2002/07), drug price reduction from November of 1996 to December of 2002 to save about 14.65 billion, rationalization of OPD service, increase insurer fee (2002/09)¡K.etc. Those implemented strategies incurred the impacts on patients, medical provider, pharmaceutical industry, and government. Therefore, the aims of this study is to explore balancing strategic variables for finding out optimal solutions among heavy financial loading from insurers, profit loss and arguments of so-called ¡§Drug price Black-Hole¡¨ from pharmaceutical industry, and quality of medical care from hospitals. This study was through the ways of two-phase interview. The first one phase is to have in-depth interview with legislators, MNHI ministers, hospital administratives, scholars who are specialized at public health, and managers of consumer society; this phase was aimed at validity for all variables that were identified from the study. Until the second phase, we would focus on validated variables from phase one to design questionnaires for telephone interviewing with all stakeholders such as common people, phsicians from hospitals, managers from pharmaceutical industry, officials from BNHI. The study will try to reveal the strategic variables from different dimensions to find out concrete balancing strategies and suggestions to stakeholders in order for coping with the inevitable impacts under system thinkings in the future.

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Mobile payments is a topic that is gaining increased attention in both research and in the media. Trends have been identified that show an increase in the use of both smartphones and mobile applications. At the same time there has been a decrease in cash use, with a move towards alternative cashless means of payment in Sweden. Existing research has focused on this type of trend research and also looking at mobile payments in a general sense. There is a gap in the research where the acceptance of mobile payment applications are receiving very little to no attention. The purpose of this thesis is then to identify the determinants of the acceptance of mobile payment applications. Using existing Technology Acceptance Model research on mobile payments, 13 hypotheses were proposed that all related to various factors of acceptance of mobile payment applications. A questionnaire was constructed to test these hypotheses and distributed using convenience sampling. The hypotheses and questionnaire was used to construct a conceptual model in AMOS, where we subsequently used multiple regression analysis to analyze the gathered data. This resulted in 6 hypotheses being accepted and 7 hypotheses being rejected. The factors that was shown to have a significant effect on the acceptance of mobile payment applications, ranging from largest effect to the least are: attitude towards using mobile payment applications, perceived usefulness of mobile payment applications, the subjective norm of the individual, perceived ease of use of the mobile payment application, perceived credibility of the mobile payment application and perceived compatibility of the mobile payment application.

Thèse. Droit. Montpellier. 1922.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Breslau.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Köln.