Effect of the On-line Personal Services on Store Image and Purchase Intention in Electronic Stores

This diploma thesis is focused on running an online shop in the Czech Republic. Online shopping is the fenomenon of modern age and had a strong infulence on consumer behavior. Customers can browse shops and order from shops all over the world at any time of day. In the first part of this work I am presenting theoretical background and basic principles on which online shopping is founded. I am also exploring its benefits, risks and possible limitations. Next, I am exploring the current situation of online shopping in Czech Republic and the prerequisites for further development. In the second part I am focusing on activities that are integral to the area of online shopping. This includes advertising systems, choice of software implementation, payment system, marketing campaigns or goods distribution. I am comparing possible options for every one of these areas and I am also suggesting advice tailored for different kinds of businesses. The overall aim of this work is to use my own experience to create a comprehensive guide on running an online store..

Facing the new technology era, electronic store all over the world and affect the behavior of consumer. As For dress production, besides the virtual stole method such as: department store and brand shop, electronic store give consumer another choices to consume. Therefore, we research dress consumers in Kaohsiung city, between dress store and electronic store, and discuss which one the consumers were most likely to choose. Additionally, we explore the effect of population statistic change and the life style on the consumer behavior. According to the study results, we hope this paper can help clothing sale companies to plan a suitable marketing strategy for distribution channel and get more profit. This thesis we take Q and A investigation, Descriptive Sattistics, Chi-square test, t-value test, one way ANOVA, two way ANOVA and SPSS as our main approaching research methods. Although electronic store become an easy and popular way for the consumers to choose, the paper explores that the consumers are likely to buy dress production in the shop rather than electronic store.

近年來電子商店已成為一種新興的零售通路，在美國有人預估未來幾年內，其市場規模將佔美國零售市場的6~8%(Rosen & Howard,2000)。這種，伴隨著Internet發展而快速成長的電子商務，逐漸的改變了人類的生活習慣，也創造了新的商業行為以及經濟模式，並成為近年來企業經營的熱門話題。 　　買賣雙方關係管理一直是企業經營之成功關鍵因素，忠誠的顧客可說是企業獲利的直接來源，多數學者認為行銷學的焦點已由過去傳統交易行銷轉移到今日注重建立並維持與顧客關係的關係行銷，這種被視為行銷新典範的關係行銷，其主要目的在提昇顧客的忠誠度及滿意度，建立良好的顧客凝聚力。 　　本文旨在精緻化Crosby, et al.(1990)所提實體環境之關係品質模式，並在原模式中納入「網路安全性」、「產品失驗(disconfirmation)」、「資產專屬性」等外生變數。企圖由交易成本(Williamson,1975)、關係品質(Crosby, et al.,1990)及科技接受模式(Davis,1989)觀點，來解釋及預測Internet消費者對電子商店關係品質（滿意度、信任）及忠誠度的心理歷程，進而建立具有理論基礎的電子商店關係品質之因果模式。 　　本研究架構包括前因變數（e.g.產品／服務品質、互動強度、網路安全性、產品失驗、資產專屬性）、中介變數（滿意度及信任）、結果變數（e.g.顧客忠誠度、未來互動）三層徑路關係。本理論架構廣納科技面（網路安全、人機介面易用性）、策略面（資產專屬性）、行銷面（互動強度）、產品面（產品失驗）、心理面（網路實用性、隱私權、信任、滿意度）等5大類影響關係品質及忠誠度之因素。 　　本研究同時採用定性及定量方法，來交互驗証結果。 　　定量部份，採隨機問卷抽樣台灣、香港、印度、大陸、美國共3231名Internet使用者的消費行為。分探索性及驗証性兩階段資料分析，前者以效度及信度來篩選量表題目，後者使用LISREL統計工具進行電子商店關係品質之結構性分析，以找出Internet關係品質（滿意度、信任）的前因及後果（e.g.顧客忠誠度、未來互動意願）。定量分析結果發現：(1)本研究B2C電子商店之關係品質模式獲得支持；(2)加強電子商店網站實用性、產品失驗、互動強度，及網路安全性，可提升關係品質；(3)網路安全防範仍是台灣電子商務發展的一項重要工作；(4)電子商店的服務品質、資產專屬性及關係滿意度，可提高顧客忠誠度以及商家的獲利；(5)關係品質的提升，可建立忠誠顧客，強化雙方未來互動。 　　定性分析方面，本研究訪談國內28家網路券商主管，輔以次級資料（網商內容分析、期刊雜誌、證交所網站等）搜集佐證，結果發現：網站服務品質愈佳、網站交易安全性及互動性愈高，不但可有效提升顧客的信任及滿意度（關係品質），且顧客忠誠也愈高。因此加強網站互動機制、網頁內容的客製化、優惠商品（手續費折扣）、及網站資產專屬性（知識專屬性、時間專屬性），都是券商套牢顧客的好方法。根據研究結果，本研究得到結論如下：(1)網路下單具有多項優勢，在台灣證券市場相當具有發展潛力。(2)網路證券由價格競爭走向商品／服務品質導向。(3)證券商品／服務走向多元化及國際化，朝網路金融服務中心發展。(4)網路券商在客製化服務方面較傳統券商可提供更佳服務。(5)網站加強核心資源的創新及累積，建立難以模仿的資產專屬性，提升顧客忠誠度。(6)網際網路是關係行銷的利器。(7)安全仍是網路證券業發展的障礙因素。 / Recently, The Electronic Store has become an up-and-coming retail channel. In America, some people estimate its market scale will hold six to eight percent of the American retail market in the oncoming years. Such kind of Electronic Commerce that increased rapidly by accompanying the development of Internet has gradually changed human living habits. In addition, Electronic Commerce has created a new commercial behavior and a new economic model. Furthermore, it has become one of the most popular issues in enterprises lately. 　　The relational management between buyers and sellers is always the key point for enterprises to run a business successfully. Loyal customers have affinitive connections for them to gain profits as well. Most of the scholars mention that the focal point on marketing has transferred from the traditional transaction in the past to relationship marketing that stresses on constructing and maintaining the good enterprise-customer relationship nowadays. The main purpose of relationship marketing regarding as novel mode for selling is to increase customer loyalties and satisfactions, and also to promote fine customer concentrations 　　For this content, the keynote is to refine the relationship quality model of physical environment, and adopt extraneous variable of net security, product disconfirmation, asset specificity that are from the original model. Additionally, we attempt to use concepts of Transaction Cost (Williamson, 1975), Relationship Quality (Crosby, et al., 1990), and TRA (Theory of Reasoned Action) (Davis, 1989) to explain and predict Internet customers'' psychological process for satisfaction, trust, and loyalty in Relationship Quality of Electronic Store, and then, to build up cause and effect pattern of Relationship Quality of Electronic Store that is provided with theoretical basis. 　　The research structure consists of three-path relations. It is including (1) Ancestor Variables (ex. products, services qualities, contact intensities, Internet securities, product disconfirmations, and asset specificities) and (2) Intervening Variables (such as satisfactions and trusts), and (3) Consequent Variables, (ex. customer loyalties, and future interactions). Meanwhile, the width of this theory focuses on six main reasons of influencing the Relationship Quality and customer loyalty, such as technologies (Internet securities, user interfaces, and eases of uses), strategies (asset specificities), marketings (contact intensities), products (product disconfirmations), psychologies (Internet usefulnesses, privacies, trusts, and satisfactions), and domestic cultures. 　　According to this research, it simultaneously adopts two ways of the Qualitative Analysis and Quantitative Analysis to verify its result. 　　For Quantitative Analysis, it takes randomly survey samples which amounts to 3,231 consumers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, China, and America to know the psychographics of internet users. In this part, it''s divided into two steps in information analysis. One is the Explorative, and the other one is the Confirmatory. The former one adopts validity and reliability to shift scale item; the later one uses statistic tools, called" LISREL" to carry out structural analysis in the Relationship Quality Model of Electronic Store, and confirms to find out the cause and effect (Customer loyalty and further interaction) of the Relationship Quality (Satisfaction and trust). Through the result of Quantitative Analysis, we can find out: 1) The research, called "B2C Electronic Store" the Relationship Quality Model is able to obtain the support; 2) When strengthening Electronic Store''s internet usefulness, product disconfirmation, contact intensity, and internet security, it can promote the Relationship Quality well; 3) For the development of Electronic Commerce in Taiwan, the internet security precaution still takes as a serious problem to solve; 4) Stressing on Electronic Store''s service quality, asset specificity and relationship satisfaction can increase customer loyalty and enterprise''s profit; 5) Increasing Relationship Quality can posses loyal customer, and further enhance bilateral future interaction. 　　For the Qualitative Analysis, we interview 28 on-line broker firms in Taiwan, and collect the secondary information (web content of online-broker analysis, periodical magazine, and stock exchange website), as a result, we find out that the better the website''s service quality, the greater transition security and interaction. For this research, it can not only effectively increase the customer trust and satisfaction (the relationship quality), but also build up the high customer loyalty. Hence, it is a good way for brokers to underpin the amounts of customers by uplifting the website interactive mechanism, customized website contents, off-price merchandize (fee discounts), website asset specificities (knowledge and time specificity). Base on the result in this research, we conclude that: (1) An order from the website has varieties of advantages, so it''s equipped the capability of development in Taiwan stock market; (2) Website bond has moved toward merchandize or service quality instead of price competition; (3) Bond merchandize and service has become diversified and global pattern, and it faces toward the Service Center of Online-banking form; (4) Due to the customized service, current online-broker can provide better service than traditional one; (5) For the invention of strengthening core resource, it can have their own asset specificity that is hard to imitate, and promote customer loyalty; (6) Internet is a good toll for the Relationship Marketing; (7) Security is still the main obstacle for the internet stock market development.