{"title":"The Effect of Social Media Usage and Electronic Word of Mouth on Conviction and Its Impact on Purchase Intention and Customer Loyalty: The Role of Brand Reputation as A Moderator","authors":"Elvin Elvin, Aussie Dian Hidayat, Patricia Hilda Tanti, Yuniarty Yuniarty","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2257","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to propose the concept of conviction in online environment. It examines the vital role of conviction and brand reputation while understanding the impact of social media usage and E-WOM on purchase intentions on e-commerce platforms. Collecting data from respondents from DKI Jakarta using convenience sampling and questionnaires. Analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and empirically tested using Partial Least Square (PLS). The findings show that E-WOM and conviction have a positive effect on purchase intention and consumer loyalty. The results also revealed that social media usage does not have a positive effect on purchase intention. Furthermore, brand reputation (perceived by the customer) moderates the relationship between E-WOM and purchase intention in a manner that this relationship is significantly stronger if there is more positive brand reputation.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":"118 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140708994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants Impacting the Assimilation Stages of E-commerce in SMEs: A Modified TOE Framework","authors":"Mansoor Ahmad, S. Siraj","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2220","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to examine the factors affecting e-commerce assimilation in Indian SMEs. It proposes a research model based on the technology, organization, and Environment (TOE) framework that includes technological, organizational, environmental, and individual determinants of e-commerce adoption and assimilation. Survey data from 384 SMEs in North India reveals that technological, organizational, environmental, and individual (TOEI) determinants explain e-commerce adaptation . The results show that although Indian SMEs are adopting e-commerce, they cannot reach the final integration stage. Although all factors significantly influence the e-commerce assimilation in SMEs, technological factors have emerged as the most influential predictors of e-commerce adoption among the other elements, viz. The technological context directly affects e-commerce adaptation through organizational, environmental, and individual compatibility. In contrast, technological cost and perceived risk are the most crucial factors inversely impacting e-commerce adaptation. Therefore, managers, policymakers, and government should focus on developing technical infrastructure and providing technical support to SMEs to promote e-commerce integration. It will help them to take advantage of the opportunities that e-commerce offers.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47084593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Online Discussions Develop in Stages: The Relationships among Comments, Responses, and Replies on Korean News Portal Sites","authors":"Jung Lee, Jinyoung Min","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46244023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF SUCCESS FACTORS FOR ONLINE EGYPTIAN FASHION RETAILERS USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS","authors":"Shereen Morsi","doi":"10.33168/JSMS.2023.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33168/JSMS.2023.0113","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid changes in the behavior of Egyptian online consumers, influenced by the increasing adoption of e-commerce since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially shopping for apparel online, have made it essential for online fashion retailers to identify criteria that are crucial for their growth. This research attempts to discover the main factors and sub-factors that influence consumers' preference for online fashion e-stores. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology was used to determine the criteria along with their weights and priorities. The study began by conducting a thorough literature review in electronic retail to identify the significant elements (keys) mentioned in earlier studies. Based on these studies, as well as input from Egyptian experts in the online fashion field, five main factors, and twenty sub-factors were identified. The AHP results revealed that \"website design\" is the most influential factor on consumers, particularly in terms of navigation and responsiveness. Website facilities ranked second in priority, with multi-payment methods and search engine as sub-factors. The third most important factor was post-order services, including order tracking and customer support. These results provide significant insights that can be utilized by online fashion retailers to improve their e-store performance by effectively managing their resources based on the relative importance of these factors. Additionally, the findings contribute to the existing literature on factors that influence online consumer preferences, which is limited, particularly in the online fashion field in Egypt.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47316321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF SUCCESS FACTORS FOR ONLINE EGYPTIAN FASHION RETAILERS USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS","authors":"Shereen Mohamed Morsi","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2192","url":null,"abstract":"The rapidly growing online fashion retailing in Egypt has resulted in many structural changes. The change in online consumer needs has made an importance for identifying the factors that are essential for growth and success in online fashion retail. The research attempts to determine the factors and sub-factors that influence the preference of consumers for online fashion retailers. The factors with their weights were determined and prioritized by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The study started off by conducting a thorough literature review to check for significant elements mentioned in earlier research. Five main factors and twenty sub-factors were identified based on earlier researches in electronic retail and experts’ views from the online fashion retail sector in Egypt. Finally, based on the AHP results the “website design” is the most influential on online consumers and especially the sub-factors of navigation, and responsiveness. The second category of importance is website facilities, followed by post-order services. These findings shed light on the factors that are specifically important to online Egyptian retailers of fashion for success and growth","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic commerce: Overview of risk disturbing","authors":"Mounia Hafiani, Laila El Abbadi","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2181","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic commerce is undergoing significant advances that make online purchases difficult to manage due to transaction complexity. The fact that e-commerce is a complex set of interrelated and interconnected transactions does not exclude risks. Basing on a literature review of 106 publications, this article identifies, analyzes and discusses the significant risks threatening e-commerce. This review allowed us to identify four major risks: environmental risks, operational risks, perceived risks and ultimately reverse logistics risks. Environmental risks are associated with all behaviors that are harmful to nature, such as, fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, and heavy use of packaging. Perceived risks are risks that are directly related to the buyer and can confuse the purchase decision. Operational risk arises from the flow of e-commerce logistics. And finally, the risk of reverse logistics when a customer returns a defective product. For this reason, security measures need to be taken to optimize these risks, maintain service performance, satisfy customers and respect the sustainability of the environment.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136266746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying Customer E-loyalty to Online Intermediary: Case of Group Buying Site","authors":"Nina Angelovska","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2120","url":null,"abstract":"The online intermediary connects merchants whose products and services it offers, and end-customers who do online shopping through the intermediary, but consume products and services traditionally. Specifically, this study focuses on two purchase processes, namely online transactions, and the retailer experience. Consequently, intermediaries need to know if e-loyalty can be threatened by poor service delivered by the merchants. Our goal is to identify and examine factors that determine e-loyalty towards a group-buying site as an intermediary. We developed an integrative theoretical model based on the expectation confirmation model positing that satisfaction with the intermediary’s e-service and merchants’ service has a significant positive impact on e-loyalty towards the intermediary. We use structural equation modelling for evaluating the satisfaction and intentions for loyalty to the intermediary, employing collected survey data of 2.691 responses from Grouper customers. We measure the intermediary’s e-service quality using IS scale and we add customer support as an important factor for e-loyalty. The findings suggested that satisfaction with e-service quality significantly affected customers’ e‐loyalty towards intermediaries. This study provides insights for intermediaries in identifying e‐loyalty drivers, understanding customers’ needs, and improving online performance to maintain satisfied customers who will continue using their services.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43266453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Brand Equity, E-Brand Experience, and Web Entertainment Toward E-Satisfaction and E-Loyalty on Marketplace","authors":"Cindy Florencia Yohandra Suthianto","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2158","url":null,"abstract":"The recent internet development and technology have changed people's perspectives of online shopping. Not only consumers only use the marketplace to purchase but also to compare price, quality, benefit, features, or after-sales services that a company provides. This research aims to determine the effect of brand equity, e-brand experience, and web entertainment on consumer satisfaction and loyalty. This quantitative study uses the Structural Equation Model method, data processing, and analysis using SPSS 24 and Lisrel 88 software. The respondents in this research are 207 millennial generations in Indonesia and have filled out questionnaires distributed online through Google Forms. The result of this study indicates that perceived quality, brand association, e-brand experience, and web entertainment variables affect the e-satisfaction variable. E-satisfaction variable has a substantial impact on the e-loyalty variable in the marketplace. In contrast, the brand awareness variable does not affect the e-satisfaction variable. The managerial implication given from this research to marketplace management in Indonesia is to improve the quality, level of entertainment, and performance of the marketplace to increase consumer satisfaction. This consumer satisfaction will increase consumer loyalty to the market they use.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44219942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does gamification affect the engagement of exercise and well-being?","authors":"Shu-Chen Chang, Yu-Ping Chiu, Chiao-Chieh Chen","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2209","url":null,"abstract":"Exergames can be considered a useful technology and tool for regular exercise when faced with the COVID-19 outbreak and social distancing period. This study examined the influence of gamification features (immersion, achievement, and social interaction) on the exergames' engagement and well-being. PLS-SEM examines the constructs' effect on the exergames play intention. Results indicated that immersion, achievement, and social interaction-related features were positively associated with users' emotional, cognitive, and social engagement. Moreover, these engagements are likely to increase well-being further. The results implied that gamification could be positively associated with engagement and well-being and could be the reference for health-related and exercise industries.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42974401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparative study between mobile and paper coupons","authors":"M. Galib","doi":"10.7903/ijecs.2146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.2146","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to examine the differences in consumers’ perceptions between paper and mobile coupons. It discovers new potentials of mobile coupons by investigating whether coupon type (mobile vs. paper) has any impact on a consumer’s coupon usage intention. It explores the drivers and barriers of consumers’ coupon usage intention and also examines to which extent coupon type translates into higher usage intention rates. The data of this study were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis, t - test, and multiple regression analysis. This study revealed that when the coupon type changes from paper to mobile, people’s coupon intention to use decreases, with the lack of trust as the primary barrier. The current study is the first attempt to apply this transactional utility theory to compare consumers’ perceptions between mobile and paper coupons. This study has empowered the transactional utility theory by applying it in a new domain of couponing.","PeriodicalId":38305,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46751758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}