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Article: Examining customers' trust in online vendors and their dropout decisions: An empirical study

TitleExamining customers' trust in online vendors and their dropout decisions: An empirical study
Authors
KeywordsConsumer Decision Process
Consumer Dropout
E-Commerce
Trust
Trust Antecedents
Issue Date2007
PublisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/elerap
Citation
Electronic Commerce Research And Applications, 2007, v. 6 n. 2, p. 171-182 How to Cite?
AbstractCustomer dropouts represent a critical challenge to online vendors and have severely constrained the proliferation of electronic retailing, which greatly depends on the customer eventually clicking on the "confirm purchase" button. In this study, we investigate the relationship between customers' trust in an online vendor and their dropouts in different stages of the purchase process. Using a well-established consumer decision-making process, we analyze salient online trust antecedents for each purchase stage, develop specific hypotheses, and test them empirically. Our results suggest that customers' trust in an online vendor has significant effects on their decisions to exit from the vendor's website, and that salient trust antecedents vary in different stages of the consumer decision process. According to our findings, customers by and large depend on general, subjective antecedents pertaining to personal traits or perceptions about the website's ease of use to assess the trustworthiness of an online vendor in the early stages but focus on specific, objective, transaction-oriented antecedents directly related to their purchase decision making in the later stages. Our results have important implications for research and practice which are also discussed in the paper. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/177985
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2023 Impact Factor: 5.9
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.338
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dc.contributor.authorHu, PJHen_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, BLPen_US
dc.contributor.authorAu, AKKen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-19T09:41:10Z-
dc.date.available2012-12-19T09:41:10Z-
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.identifier.citationElectronic Commerce Research And Applications, 2007, v. 6 n. 2, p. 171-182en_US
dc.identifier.issn1567-4223en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/177985-
dc.description.abstractCustomer dropouts represent a critical challenge to online vendors and have severely constrained the proliferation of electronic retailing, which greatly depends on the customer eventually clicking on the "confirm purchase" button. In this study, we investigate the relationship between customers' trust in an online vendor and their dropouts in different stages of the purchase process. Using a well-established consumer decision-making process, we analyze salient online trust antecedents for each purchase stage, develop specific hypotheses, and test them empirically. Our results suggest that customers' trust in an online vendor has significant effects on their decisions to exit from the vendor's website, and that salient trust antecedents vary in different stages of the consumer decision process. According to our findings, customers by and large depend on general, subjective antecedents pertaining to personal traits or perceptions about the website's ease of use to assess the trustworthiness of an online vendor in the early stages but focus on specific, objective, transaction-oriented antecedents directly related to their purchase decision making in the later stages. Our results have important implications for research and practice which are also discussed in the paper. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/elerapen_US
dc.relation.ispartofElectronic Commerce Research and Applicationsen_US
dc.rightsElectronic Commerce Research and Applications. Copyright © Elsevier BV.-
dc.subjectConsumer Decision Processen_US
dc.subjectConsumer Dropouten_US
dc.subjectE-Commerceen_US
dc.subjectTrusten_US
dc.subjectTrust Antecedentsen_US
dc.titleExamining customers' trust in online vendors and their dropout decisions: An empirical studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.elerap.2006.11.008en_US
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