Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian

A customer-perceived quality service has been widely used towards enhancing the customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. The same situation is also applicable for the online services; in an increased use of websites as a channel for information presentation and provision of other services. Hence, the w...

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Main Authors: Voon, Boo Ho, Kueh, Karen Meng Koon, Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi
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Language:English
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spelling uitm-130782016-06-30T00:39:44Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13078/ Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian Voon, Boo Ho Kueh, Karen Meng Koon Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi Marketing Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development A customer-perceived quality service has been widely used towards enhancing the customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. The same situation is also applicable for the online services; in an increased use of websites as a channel for information presentation and provision of other services. Hence, the website service quality perceptions of users need to be understood so as to be managed more effectively. The key dimension of this study is to identify the website service quality through the qualitative and quantitative approaches. The website quality theories, focus groups and survey results generate numerous dimensions and items for the understanding and measuring the website service quality of various public-listed companies in Malaysia, particularly from the users’ viewpoint. The laboratory-based method obtains data from the external users’ websites whereas mail surveys aims to gather the views from the organizations’ website. These two approaches use to obtain the perceptual data for further quantitative analysis. Based on the Reliability and Factor Analysis as well as Structural Equation Modeling, there are six valid and reliable dimensions of website service quality identified, namely: Assurance, Tangibles, Content Quality, Technical Quality, Organisation Information, and Address. The implications and future research directions will be also discussed in the following sections of this study. Research Management Institute (RMI) 2009 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13078/1/AJ_VOON%20BOO%20HO%20SMRJ%20%2009%201.pdf Voon, Boo Ho and Kueh, Karen Meng Koon and Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi (2009) Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian. Social and Management Research Journal, 6 (2). pp. 71-81. ISSN 1675-7017
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topic Marketing
Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development
spellingShingle Marketing
Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
World Wide Web. Web portals. Web site development
Voon, Boo Ho
Kueh, Karen Meng Koon
Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi
Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
description A customer-perceived quality service has been widely used towards enhancing the customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. The same situation is also applicable for the online services; in an increased use of websites as a channel for information presentation and provision of other services. Hence, the website service quality perceptions of users need to be understood so as to be managed more effectively. The key dimension of this study is to identify the website service quality through the qualitative and quantitative approaches. The website quality theories, focus groups and survey results generate numerous dimensions and items for the understanding and measuring the website service quality of various public-listed companies in Malaysia, particularly from the users’ viewpoint. The laboratory-based method obtains data from the external users’ websites whereas mail surveys aims to gather the views from the organizations’ website. These two approaches use to obtain the perceptual data for further quantitative analysis. Based on the Reliability and Factor Analysis as well as Structural Equation Modeling, there are six valid and reliable dimensions of website service quality identified, namely: Assurance, Tangibles, Content Quality, Technical Quality, Organisation Information, and Address. The implications and future research directions will be also discussed in the following sections of this study.
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author Voon, Boo Ho
Kueh, Karen Meng Koon
Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi
author_facet Voon, Boo Ho
Kueh, Karen Meng Koon
Mohd Zafian, Mohd Zawawi
author_sort Voon, Boo Ho
title Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
title_short Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
title_full Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
title_fullStr Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
title_full_unstemmed Measuring website service quality for Malaysian companies / Voon Boo Ho, Karen Kueh and Mohd Zawawi Mohd Zafian
title_sort measuring website service quality for malaysian companies / voon boo ho, karen kueh and mohd zawawi mohd zafian
publisher Research Management Institute (RMI)
publishDate 2009
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13078/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13078/1/AJ_VOON%20BOO%20HO%20SMRJ%20%2009%201.pdf
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