The Internet has become a part of people's daily lives. With the active e-commerce, e-commerce platform companies are also constantly developing. The activity of B2C e-commerce in China and the continuous development of e-commerce in South Korea have ...
The Internet has become a part of people's daily lives. With the active e-commerce, e-commerce platform companies are also constantly developing. The activity of B2C e-commerce in China and the continuous development of e-commerce in South Korea have not only brought opportunities for e-commerce platform companies to explore new markets, but also brought a crisis of increased competition. For the continuous growth and profitability of e-commerce platform enterprises, it is necessary to formulate strategies to maintain customers. In order to prevent the loss of customers, we must develop a multi-faceted plan to meet customer needs. In an environment where the level of products and services provided by e-commerce platforms to consumers is becoming more and more uniform, e-commerce platform companies must explore new development opportunities, first of all to improve the quality of services, and thereby increase customer satisfaction and trust.
The purpose of this research is to extract service quality factors from e-commerce platforms through existing literature research, grasp the impact of these service quality factors on customer satisfaction and trustworthiness, and prove the causal relationship between customer satisfaction and trustworthiness through empirical analysis , And grasp the influence of customer satisfaction and trustworthiness on repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention.
Therefore, this study targeted consumers in South Korea and China who actually purchased products on B2C e-commerce platforms, and conducted a questionnaire survey on why they bought the product, how satisfied and trustworthy they are, whether they have repurchase intentions and word-of-mouth intention. Empirical analysis of consumer characteristics such as intentions is carried out, and policy enlightenment is obtained.
The results of analyzing the demographic characteristics of the specimens show that from the perspective of consumers in Korea and China, the 30-39 age group of consumers dominates shopping on B2C e-commerce platforms. Therefore, it is necessary for platform companies to focus their efforts on marketing strategies for young people. South Korean and Chinese consumers spend a lot of time online on average every day, and people's focus of life has shifted to the Internet, so the research on e-commerce is more meaningful. This shows that in China and South Korea, most of the daily consumption has been transferred to online shopping. In addition, consumers in South Korea and China mainly use smart phones to purchase goods online. Therefore, e-commerce platform companies in the two countries should strengthen the promotion of the platform on smart phones and accelerate the research and development of mobile platform application software. According to the survey, the main settlement method used by Chinese consumers when purchasing products on e-commerce platforms is mobile settlement. It can be seen that most Chinese consumers pay for goods through mobile settlement when shopping online. Most Korean consumers use credit cards to pay, but currently companies led by Kakao pay have begun to implement mobile settlement methods. It can be seen that South Korea's settlement method is also changing to a mobile settlement method like China. However, only South Korean e-commerce companies and financial companies can work together to achieve this goal. In addition, when Chinese consumers purchase products, 78.33% of customers mainly use B2C e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba's Tmall and Taobao, while 19.69% of customers use Jingdong, which shows that China's platforms are also diverse Change. South Korea's B2C e-commerce platform G-MARKET has 36.41% of customers, occupying the first place, but other platforms also occupy a certain share, so it will not be monopolized by Alibaba Group like China.
Second, the analysis results of the research hypothesis show that among the service quality factors, logistics and product diversity have a positive impact on the customer satisfaction of Korean and Chinese consumers. In particular, logistics is an important factor in e-commerce that brings competitiveness. Most e-commerce companies are making continuous efforts to provide customers with better logistics services. Product price and product quality have a positive (+) impact on the purchase satisfaction and trust of Korean and Chinese consumers. Therefore, in order for e-commerce companies to successfully sell products to Korean and Chinese consumers through the platform, they must first have quality and price competitiveness. The after-sales service of the product, the practicality of the platform, and the interaction also have a positive (+) impact on the purchase satisfaction and trust of Chinese and Korean consumers. Therefore, e-commerce platform companies must ensure the trustworthiness of various information provided by online shopping malls, product quality, payment settlement, personal information protection, etc., and carry out various forms of promotion strategies in order to attract buyers to online shopping malls. The after-sales service staff should be provided with business training to provide customers with better services and provide good after-sales service. In addition, e-commerce platform companies should regularly classify and screen after-sales service opinions and customer proposals, and set up a special customer information feedback department to adopt feasibility opinions that are beneficial to the platform and high customer expectations. After the opinions are adopted, they will be put forward. Of customers to compensate and inform all customers to improve customer satisfaction and trust. According to the survey, the customer satisfaction of Korean and Chinese customers has a positive impact on customer trust. Customer satisfaction and customer trust in Korea and China have a positive impact on repurchase intentions and word-of-mouth intentions. In addition, according to the analysis, customer satisfaction has the greatest impact on repurchase intentions, and customer satisfaction has an impact on trust, and trust also has an impact on consumers' repurchase intentions and word-of-mouth intentions. But the most important thing is customer satisfaction.
The path coefficient analysis results of South Korea and China show that the service quality of South Korean B2C e-commerce platforms has the greatest impact on customer satisfaction is the after-sales service of the product, followed by the product quality, and the third is the interaction of the platform. This shows that if South Korean B2C e-commerce companies want to improve customer satisfaction, promote repurchase and increase sales, they must strategically plan the seven service quality factors that affect customer satisfaction. Among them, after-sales, brand quality assurance and mutual communication are the first task. On the contrary, the product quality that has the greatest impact on the satisfaction of Chinese customers is followed by logistics, and the third is after-sales service. The most important problem that China's e-commerce platform needs to solve is the product quality problem that has been solved for a long time, followed by the logistics problem that many scholars and researchers are most concerned about, and the product after-sales service problem faced by South Korea. The path coefficient of the influence of Korean customers' customer satisfaction on repurchase intention is 0.769, which is the largest coefficient, and the path coefficient of the influence of word-of-mouth intention is 0.374. The path coefficients of the impact of customer satisfaction on repurchase intention and oral transmission intention of Chinese customers are 0.627 and 0.340 respectively. This shows that if the customer satisfaction of Chinese and Korean customers is improved, their repurchase rate and word-of-mouth rate can be improved, thereby increasing platform sales and profits. Comparing the coefficients of Korean and Chinese customer satisfaction on repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention, the coefficients of Korean customer satisfaction on repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention are both larger than those of Chinese customers. This means that under the same customer satisfaction, the repurchase rate, word-of-mouth rate, and even customer loyalty of Korean customers may be higher than those of Chinese customers. This means that Korean customers are more likely to become regular customers of e-commerce platforms than Chinese customers. Bring more benefits to the platform. Not only that, according to the comparison of the influence coefficients of the service quality of Korean and Chinese e-commerce platforms on customer satisfaction, it is shown that the service quality elements of Korean e-commerce platforms include product quality, product after-sales service, product diversity, platform usefulness, and mutual The coefficients of the five factors such as reactivity are larger than the China index. The influence coefficient of the service quality of B2C e-commerce platform on customer satisfaction and the influence coefficient of customer satisfaction on purchase intention and word-of-mouth intention are both larger than that of China. This shows that while customers in these developed countries in South Korea enjoy high-quality services, they also have a strong awareness and recognition of services.
In 2020, due to the emergence of “COVID-19”, the world economy has stagnated. A large number of physical stores have closed. Customers who like to shop in physical stores can only shop online. Consumers around the world have a more acute perception of the service quality of e-commerce platforms. Service quality factors that did not affect customer satisfaction before also affect customer satisfaction. With the increasing severity of “COVID-19” that does not know when it will end, the global economic stagnation has caused the physical economy to continue to suffer, and e-commerce has also been affected. However, online shopping is the only choice for most consumers at this stage. Therefore, the results of this research and the proposed policy proposals are more meaningful. Today's e-commerce platform companies should improve service quality through various means to improve customer satisfaction. And make customers more trustworthy, and finally through customer repurchase and word-of-mouth transmission, the platform can achieve better development.