Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

12-2008

Abstract

Trust and satisfaction are essential ingredients for successful business relationships in business-to-consumer electronic commerce. Yet there is little research on trust and satisfaction in e-commerce that takes a longitudinal approach. Drawing on three primary bodies of literature, the theory of reasoned action, the extended valence framework, and expectation-confirmation theory, this study synthesizes a model of consumer trust and satisfaction in the context of e-commerce. The model considers not only how consumers formulate their prepurchase decisions, but also how they form their long-term relationships with the same website vendor by comparing their prepurchase expectations to their actual purchase outcome. The results indicate that trust directly and indirectly affects a consumer's purchase decision in combination with perceived risk and perceived benefit, and also that trust has a longer term impact on consumer e-loyalty through satisfaction. Thus, this study extends our understanding of consumer Internet transaction behavior as a three-fold (prepurchase, purchase, and postpurchase) process, and it recognizes the crucial, multiple roles that trust plays in this process. Implications for theory and practice as well as limitations and future directions are discussed.

Keywords

Consumer satisfaction, E-loyalty, Expectation-confirmation theory, Extended valence framework, Purchase and repurchase intentions in B2C e-commerce, Trust in e-commerce

Discipline

E-Commerce | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Information Systems Research

Volume

20

Issue

2

First Page

237

Last Page

257

ISSN

1047-7047

Identifier

10.1287/isre.1080.0188

Publisher

INFORMS

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.1080.0188

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