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| dc.contributor.author | Xu, Jingjun David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Benbasat, Izak | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cenfetelli, Ron | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-19T14:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-19T14:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Xu, Jingjun (David); Benbasat, Izak; and Cenfetelli, Ron (2011) "The Effects of Service and Consumer Product Knowledge on Online Customer Loyalty," Journal of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 12: Iss. 11, Article 1. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1536-9323 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5148 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol12/iss11/1 | |
| dc.description | Click on the 2nd link below to access full text of this article free of change at the publisher's website. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Customer loyalty is a key driver of financial performance for online firms. The effect of service quality on customer loyalty has been well established. Yet, there is a paucity of research that has studied the cost of obtaining service quality during the service process and the service outcome influenced by such cost. We extend previous research and propose the 3S Customer Loyalty Model by integrating sacrifice and service outcome as additional important service dimensions together with service quality when predicting online customer loyalty, and examining how their influences on loyalty vary across customers with different degrees of product knowledge. Further, we theorize that service quality and sacrifice - as service process dimensions - influence service outcome, and we theorize how "live help" technology improves customer perceptions of service quality and sacrifice. The empirical results indicate that 1) customer loyalty increases with higher perceived service quality, lower perceived sacrifice, and better perceived service outcome, 2) service quality and sacrifice influence service outcome, 3) customer product knowledge negatively moderates the relationship between service quality and online customer loyalty and positively moderates the relationship between sacrifice and customer loyalty, and 4) live help technology enhances service quality and reduces sacrifice. These findings support the theoretical importance of including sacrifice and service outcome (parallel with service quality) as antecedents of online customer loyalty. Our study also advances the theoretical understanding of what service process consists of and how the service process (i.e. service quality and sacrifice) influences service outcome. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Association for Information Systems | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of the Association of Information Systems;2011:, v.12, no.11 | |
| dc.subject | Sacrifice | en_US |
| dc.subject | Service outcome | en_US |
| dc.subject | Service process | en_US |
| dc.subject | Service quality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Customer product knowledge | en_US |
| dc.subject | Live help technology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Online customer loyalty | en_US |
| dc.subject | 3S Customer loyalty model | en_US |
| dc.title | The effects of service and consumer product knowledge on online customer loyalty | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | Copyright by the Association for Information Systems, 2011 |
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