Volume 11, Issue 4 (April 2024), Pages: 9-21
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Original Research Paper
Exploring the interplay between website quality and consumer purchase behavior in e-commerce after the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of Shopee Vietnam
Author(s):
Trong Hung To 1, Tien Dat Nguyen 2, The Tuan Tran 3, *, Diem-Chau Tran-Ngoc 4, Thien Kim Ly-Ngoc 5
Affiliation(s):
1Academy of Policy and Development, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Hanoi, Vietnam
2Faculty of Economics-Law, Ba Ria Vung Tau University, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam
3Faculty of Transport Economics, University of Transport Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
4Research and Development, International University, VNUHCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
5Faculty of Business Administration, FPT University CanTho Campus, Can Tho City, Vietnam
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Abstract
Vietnam is recognized for its significant growth in e-commerce. Shopee has become the leading e-commerce platform in Vietnam in terms of revenue and market share. However, Shopee Vietnam faces several challenges, including how customers perceive its services. There is also a lack of academic studies on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected consumer buying habits, especially in relation to Shopee Vietnam. This research looks into how the quality of Shopee's website - including its system, information, and service quality - affects customer buying behavior. The study uses a theoretical framework and tests ten hypotheses using a quantitative approach. Data was collected from 309 Shopee users through a questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS and AMOS 22.0 software. The results show that only information quality and system quality significantly influence customer buying behavior, with service quality having no notable effect. Information quality is the most influential factor. The study concludes that customers view Shopee.vn not just as a place to buy, sell, and ship goods but also as a source of information for searching, exploring, and comparing data.
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Keywords
System quality, Information quality, Service quality, Customer buying behavior, Shopee Vietnam
Article history
Received 19 September 2023, Received in revised form 29 January 2024, Accepted 15 March 2024
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Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Citation:
To TH, Nguyen TD, Tran TT, Tran-Ngoc DC, and Ly-Ngoc TK (2024). Exploring the interplay between website quality and consumer purchase behavior in e-commerce after the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of Shopee Vietnam. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 11(4): 9-21
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