Purpose: This research attempts to examine the relationship between B2C interaction and customer loyalty in Business-to-Customer(B2C) context from a new perspective of the interactive tool.Design/methodology/appro...Purpose: This research attempts to examine the relationship between B2C interaction and customer loyalty in Business-to-Customer(B2C) context from a new perspective of the interactive tool.Design/methodology/approach: The scale for B2C interactive tools is of seven dimensions: efficiency, security, fulfillment, mobility, community, cultivation, and customization. A model reflecting the influences of these attributes on customer loyalty is developed and empirically examined based on data collected from 265 B2C customers. Findings: Results reveal that the fulfillment, mobility, community, and customization of B2C interactive tools can enhance customer loyalty directly and significantly. Efficiency and security, serving as the premise for possible purchase behavior, facilitate fulfillment. In addition, cultivation promotes the formation of customization, which directly strengthens customer loyalty.Research limitations: Models considering individual-level indicators and combined with classic loyalty mechanisms in B2C context may lead to a deeper understanding of the tested effects of interaction on customer loyalty.Practical implications: To strengthen B2C interaction and further cultivate loyal customers, making interactive tools more fundamental, flexible, and personalized is critical for B2C enterprises. Originality/value: This study proposes a new perspective from interactive tools when measuring the relationship between B2C interaction and customer loyalty, and offers a useful theoretical lens and reasonable explanations for investigating customer loyalty in B2C e-commerce context.展开更多
Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics...Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics to client consumer, and the paper focuses on the study of self-supporting logistics for the E-commerce enterprise. According to the development status of current B2C electronic commerce enterprise in our country and logistics, the paper study B2C electric business enterprise how to correctly choose the logistics mode and how to promote the business logistics operation level.展开更多
基金supported in part by the Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu (Grant No.: 17TQB003)
文摘Purpose: This research attempts to examine the relationship between B2C interaction and customer loyalty in Business-to-Customer(B2C) context from a new perspective of the interactive tool.Design/methodology/approach: The scale for B2C interactive tools is of seven dimensions: efficiency, security, fulfillment, mobility, community, cultivation, and customization. A model reflecting the influences of these attributes on customer loyalty is developed and empirically examined based on data collected from 265 B2C customers. Findings: Results reveal that the fulfillment, mobility, community, and customization of B2C interactive tools can enhance customer loyalty directly and significantly. Efficiency and security, serving as the premise for possible purchase behavior, facilitate fulfillment. In addition, cultivation promotes the formation of customization, which directly strengthens customer loyalty.Research limitations: Models considering individual-level indicators and combined with classic loyalty mechanisms in B2C context may lead to a deeper understanding of the tested effects of interaction on customer loyalty.Practical implications: To strengthen B2C interaction and further cultivate loyal customers, making interactive tools more fundamental, flexible, and personalized is critical for B2C enterprises. Originality/value: This study proposes a new perspective from interactive tools when measuring the relationship between B2C interaction and customer loyalty, and offers a useful theoretical lens and reasonable explanations for investigating customer loyalty in B2C e-commerce context.
文摘Taking B2C E-commerce enterprises as the center, it can be divided into a set of logistics activities upstream supply chain logistics producer to B2C e-commerce enterprises, and the B2C e-commerce enterprise logistics to client consumer, and the paper focuses on the study of self-supporting logistics for the E-commerce enterprise. According to the development status of current B2C electronic commerce enterprise in our country and logistics, the paper study B2C electric business enterprise how to correctly choose the logistics mode and how to promote the business logistics operation level.