Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters

Heinrich, Peter; Schwabe, Gerhard

doi:10.21256/zhaw-3748

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Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters
Authors:	Heinrich, Peter Schwabe, Gerhard
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-3748 10.1007/s12599-017-0501-5
Published in:	Business & Information Systems Engineering
Volume(Issue):	60
Issue:	4
Page(s):	317
Pages to:	329
Issue Date:	14-Nov-2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	1867-0202 2363-7005
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	332: Financial economics
Abstract:	While advice-giving encounters form an integral part of banks’ services, clients often buy inappropriate products and face financial consequences. Legislators have started to put banks under pressure to ensure that clients are properly educated. However, the literature describes barriers due to which client education is doomed to fail applying current advice-giving practices. Practicable alternatives to the predominant perfect agent style of advice-giving are dismissed, mainly with the argument of client-side cognitive limitations. This paper challenges this assumption by suggesting a decision-making process that seamlessly integrates educational interventions, thus supporting informed client decision-making. In the spirit of design science research, the authors take a fresh look at the problems of client education in cooperation with a large Swiss retail bank to derive generalizable requirements, and design a novel IT-supported advice-giving process. An evaluation demonstrates the design’s utility in significantly improving client learning, compared to traditional service encounters. This research extends the current discourse on service encounter design, and seeks to help practitioners to design the financial service encounters of tomorrow.
Further description:	Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/7000
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Restricted until:	2023-09-01
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Business Information Technology (IWI)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Heinrich, P., & Schwabe, G. (2017). Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 60(4), 317–329. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3748

Heinrich, P. and Schwabe, G. (2017) ‘Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters’, Business & Information Systems Engineering, 60(4), pp. 317–329. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3748.

P. Heinrich and G. Schwabe, “Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters,” Business & Information Systems Engineering, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 317–329, Nov. 2017, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3748.

HEINRICH, Peter und Gerhard SCHWABE, 2017. Facilitating informed decision-making in financial service encounters. Business & Information Systems Engineering. 14 November 2017. Bd. 60, Nr. 4, S. 317–329. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-3748

Heinrich, Peter, and Gerhard Schwabe. 2017. “Facilitating Informed Decision-Making in Financial Service Encounters.” Business & Information Systems Engineering 60 (4): 317–29. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3748.

Heinrich, Peter, and Gerhard Schwabe. “Facilitating Informed Decision-Making in Financial Service Encounters.” Business & Information Systems Engineering, vol. 60, no. 4, Nov. 2017, pp. 317–29, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3748.