Antecedents to Website Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Word-Of-Mouth

Brent Lynn Selby Coker

Abstract


Satisfaction, loyalty, and likelihood of referral are regarded by marketers and the Big Three diagnostics leading to retail profitability. However, as yet no-one has developed a model to capture all three of these constructs in the context of the internet. Moreover, although several attempts have been made to develop models to measure quality of website experience, no-one has sought to develop an instrument short enough to be of practical use as a quick customer satisfaction feedback form. In this research we sought to fill this void by developing and psychometrically testing a parsimonious model to capture the Big Three diagnostics, brief enough to be used in a commercial environment as a modal popup feedback form.

Keywords


Website Quality; Website Satisfaction

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4301/s1807-17752013000200002

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