Fintech: A content analysis of the finance and information systems literature

Zack Jourdan (), J. Ken. Corley, Randall Valentine and Arthur M. Tran
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Zack Jourdan: Auburn University at Montgomery
J. Ken. Corley: Appalachian State Universtiy
Randall Valentine: Texas Tech University
Arthur M. Tran: Texas Tech University

Electronic Markets, 2023, vol. 33, issue 1, No 2, 21 pages

Abstract: Abstract The amount of research related to financial technologies (fintech) has grown rapidly since these modalities have been implemented. A review of this literature base will help identify the topics that have been explored and identify topics for further research. This research project collects, synthesizes, and analyzes both the research strategies (i.e., methodologies) and content (e.g., topics, focus, categories) of the literature, and then discusses an agenda for future research efforts. We searched for fintech research published in the last 20 years and analyzed 146 articles published in Finance and 70 articles published in Information Systems (IS) during this period in their respective A*, A, and B journals in the 2019 Australian Business Deans Council list. We found an increasing level of activity during the most recent 6-year period and a biased distribution of fintech articles focused on exploratory methodologies. We also found several research strategies that were either underrepresented or absent from the pool of fintech research and identified several subject areas that need further exploration. We also created four fintech topic categories to organize and classify this diverse research stream.

Keywords: FinTech; Qualitative; Literature review; Content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G20 G30 G40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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