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With the rapid growth of the Internet technology, e-Commerce has taken one major way of doing business. However, research on the measurement of e-Commerce service quality, has not been sufficient. Only the evaluation of web sites has been used to measure indirectly service quality of e-Commerce. Due to paucity of research on the measurement, the robust research result has not been achieved, and some research presented inconsistent results in the same domain. This research used WebQual, a measurement uniquely developed for e-Commerce service quality through continuous revisions, to measure e-Commerce quality of four representative Internet Bookstores in Korea. Some statistical analyses were conducted to verify the reliability and validity of WebQaul as an e-Commerce service measurement. According to the research results, WebQual was confirmed as a robust e-Commerce measurement in terms of its reliability and validity. Further, it is identified that e-Commerce service quality, customer satisfaction, and site revisit have positive relationships in sequence.
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Park, H., Baek, S. (2007). Measuring Service Quality of Online Bookstores with WebQual. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4553. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_12
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