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The Relationship between site characteristics, relationship quality, and word of mouth.

International Journal of Business and Information

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Title The Relationship between site characteristics, relationship quality, and word of mouth.
 
Creator Chung, Ki-Han
Shin, Jae-Ik
 
Description The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between site characteristics, relationship quality, and word of mouth in online retailing. Based on the analysis of 279 questionnaires, the following research findings were obtained. First, all characteristics of online retailing positively affect customer satisfaction, and security has more of a positive effect on satisfaction than the other characteristics do. Second, customer satisfaction positively affects e-trust, e-commitment, and word of mouth. Third, e-trust positively affects e-commitment, and e-commitment has a positive effect on word of mouth. It was found, however, that e-trust does not positively affect word of mouth. Fourth, all characteristics of online retailing indirectly affect e-trust, e-commitment, and word of mouth, and it does this by moderating customer satisfaction. Fifth, customer satisfaction indirectly affects e-commitment and word of mouth by moderating e-trust. Sixth, e-trust indirectly affects word of mouth by moderating e-commitment.
 
Publisher International Business Academics Consortium
 
Date 2015-11-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ijbi.org/ijbi/article/view/41
 
Source International Journal of Business and Information; Vol 4 No 2 (2009)
2520-0151
1728-8673
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ijbi.org/ijbi/article/view/41/45
 
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