TY - GEN
T1 - The impacts of service quality and customer satisfaction in the e-commerce context
AU - Lin, Yong
AU - Luo, Jing
AU - Zhou, Li
AU - Ieromonachou, Petros
AU - Huang, Lin
AU - Cai, Shuqin
AU - Ma, Shihua
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper aims to investigate the impacts of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the e-commerce context, in particular from a triad view of customer-e-retailer-3PL (third party logistics) provider. A literature review is primarily used to determine the conceptual model and to develop the measurement scales. Data were collected through online questionnaire survey conducted in China. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data and test the proposed research hypotheses. The results indicate that both e-service quality and logistics service quality are strongly linked with customer satisfaction. The research results shown that practitioners (e-retailers) should not only focus on e-service quality, but also the logistics service quality. This research validates the proposed service quality framework with two dimensions (e-service quality and logistics service quality) in ecommerce context. Second, it highlights the impact path of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty.
AB - This paper aims to investigate the impacts of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the e-commerce context, in particular from a triad view of customer-e-retailer-3PL (third party logistics) provider. A literature review is primarily used to determine the conceptual model and to develop the measurement scales. Data were collected through online questionnaire survey conducted in China. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data and test the proposed research hypotheses. The results indicate that both e-service quality and logistics service quality are strongly linked with customer satisfaction. The research results shown that practitioners (e-retailers) should not only focus on e-service quality, but also the logistics service quality. This research validates the proposed service quality framework with two dimensions (e-service quality and logistics service quality) in ecommerce context. Second, it highlights the impact path of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty.
KW - Supply chain management
KW - customer satisfaction
KW - e-service quality
KW - ecommerce
KW - logistics service quality
KW - loyalty
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906707058&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874093
DO - 10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874093
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906707058
SN - 9781479931330
T3 - 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, ICSSSM 2014 - Proceeding
BT - 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, ICSSSM 2014 - Proceeding
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, ICSSSM 2014
Y2 - 25 June 2014 through 27 June 2014
ER -