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Please distribute the following Call For Chapters link throughout your
subscribers of the Academy of International Business at Michigan State
University for the upcoming book, : *"Impact of Mobile Payment Applications
and Transfers on Business."*

https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3904

Additional information

Editors
Thaisaiyi, Zephania Opati
Riara University, Nairobi-Kenya

Gachukia, Martin Kang’ethe
Riara University, Nairobi-Kenya

Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: April 9, 2019
Full Chapters Due: June 20, 2019
Submission Date: March 9, 2019
Introduction
Since M-PESA, the first African mobile money platform, was launched by
Safaricom in Kenya in 2007, the growth of mobile money transfer has adopted
a quantum leap in growth in certain developing countries. For instance 96
percent of households currently outside Nairobi [Kenya] have at least one
M-PESA account (Logan 2017). This adoption is significant and is currently
changing and upsetting the financial landscape of these nations where the
mobile money transfer (MMT) has been adopted.
Agrawal, (2009) defines mobile money transfer as the use of a mobile phone
in order to transfer funds between banks or accounts, deposit or withdraw
funds, or pay bills or use of a mobile device to purchase items, whether
physical or electronic. Consequently Orozco et al., (2003) illuminates that
MMT service is an aspect of a broader concept emerging in the electronic
payment and banking industry referred to as Mobile banking.
Undeniably the double-digit growth of MMT in Africa has been credited to
the progression of the platform beyond peer-to-peer mobile payments to
include paying for shopping, utility bills such as school fees, water, rent
and electricity, receiving dividends, and diaspora remittances. This trend
has led Logan (2017) to admit that the impact of MMT to poverty reduction a
definite result of improved financial behavior – by facilitating easier
transactions and safer savings – and changes in the occupational choice of
users. This trend has forced corporates to adopt mobile money linkages and
transactions to maintain their market share heavily due to consumer
convenience posed by MMTs. For instance Kenya Power a power utility company
in Kenya estimates that 80 per cent of the utility’s 654,953 pre-paid
customers buy electricity tokens through mobile money platforms. Kenya
Airways, the Kenyan national carrier has adopted mobile money payments now
make up one per cent of total air ticket sales in 2015 .Without a doubt the
as the World Bank (2009) notes the primary function of MMT services has
been to reduce the costs of making payments from one individual to another,
especially across large distances .
Adam and Walker (2015) then explains that as a result mobile money tends to
increase the macroeconomic stability of the countries contrary to popular
expectations that it would destabilise the conduct of monetary policy in
those countries. For instance M-PESA as part of economic expansion and
customer convenience the transaction costs in Kenya has significantly
reduced for instance , during its launch the average distance to the
nearest bank was 9.2 kilometres, eight years later in 2015 the average
distance to the nearest M-PESA agent was a mere 1.4 kilometers (Logan
2017). Nampewo and Opolot (2016) as a result believed that the mobile money
transfers tends to increase the velocity of money in circulation because it
cuts the transactions and time costs of making retail payment prompting
efficiency of transactions desired by customers . Ideally apart from the
peer-to-peer transfer service, mobile money is becoming the fuel for a
growing number of transaction solutions across the payment chain including
person-to-business and business-to-business payments.
MMTs triumphs in Africa have been tried and tested and they are being
replicated around the world. Pulver, (2009) further explains that a recent
inventory by the social venture credit SMS suggests that that there are at
least 23 distinct MMT, operating or pending in 20 countries following the
success of MPESA. These places include Greenfield deployment in Indonesia
launched in 2009 and the SMART Communications’ Island Activations Program
in the Philippines. M-PESA like infrastructure was even adopted by the
leading Afghan mobile network operator, Roshan, anticipate building an
M-PESA-like infrastructure in Afghanistan by end of 2010. As result Logan
(2017) is quick to explain that now that mobile money users are able to
form more diverse risk-sharing networks, it's not surprising that users,
compared with non-users, tend to receive more remittances from more people.
This is particularly marked when users are responding to negative shocks.
Kamukama and Tumwine (2012) then concludes that the proliferation of mobile
payments may disadvantage commercial banks by weakening their liquidity
positions while Nampewo et al., (2016), highlighted the role of mobile
money in credit creation has been studied by who highlight the crucial role
of savings and deposit mobilisation.
In summary Mobile money users are therefore more financially resilient and
can protect themselves better against economic and other shocks. It also
allows them to increase their consumption in bad times. Logan (2017)
confesses that this is the key in enabling households to lift themselves
out of extreme poverty. Moreover, mobile money will obviously increase the
velocity of money in circulation because it reduces the transactions and
time costs of making retail payments. Undeniably, innovations in the
financial sector, including mobile money, have been shown to have
statistically significant positive long-run effects on money velocity in
Uganda (Nampewo and Opolot 2016). That mobile money has a positive impact
on economic outcomes for women is particularly notable when seen against
some historical studies on related subjects. It is this light that we seek
to explore the impact of the mobile money transfer and its impact in
social, corporate, micro and macro policies concerning the aggregate
economy and individual households as a whole within an economy.
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Objective
This proposed book seeks to cover the impact, innovations, business to
business transformations, regulatory framework, challenges and ethical
issues surrounding Mobile Money Transfers (MMT) around the world.

Target Audience
The primary target audience for this book is scholars, practitioners in the
fields of management, finance, economics, commerce and leadership who
require knowledge and trends surrounding mobile money transfer. The
secondary target audience is graduate students of management, finance,
economics, commerce and leadership.