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计算机与信息学院 本科毕业设计(论文)

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An Empirical Study On Consumer Trust in B2C ecommerce

in China

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Yujie Bao, Yan Li,* Xin Meng, Yuchang Liu, Weiming Wang

International College at Beijing

China Agricultural University

Beijing, China

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Abstract—Consumer trust has been more and more recognized as an important factor for a

successful e-commerce vendor. Based on the previous research, this paper developed an extended

model for analyzing the main attributes of trust of the users in China. A survey regarding the trust of

e-commerce users is conducted to empirically test the model. The result shows the perceived

reputation and size; the level of multi-channel integration, the system assurance, consumers’

propensity to trust and experienced-based familiarity are all positively related with consumers’ trust

in the vendor. The findings may provide the suggestions for the vendors to consider the trustworthy

by the consumers.

Keywords: e-commerce; consumer trust; China

I. INTRODUCTION

E-business (electronic commerce) is described as the process of buying, selling, transferring, or

exchanging products, services, and/or information via computer networks,including the Internet.

There are many advantages driving the growth of e-commerce in the recent decades. Time saving, a

greater variety of choices and cheaper prices are the three main advantages. But like the traditional

business, problems emerge as e-commerce becomes more popular. The consumers’ trust in

e-commerce is becoming the most significant problem. One of the key factors that make an

e-commerce successful is the ability to gain consumer trust.

Trust is defined as in this study as a consumer’s positive expectations regarding an e-vendor’s

conduct, characterized as faith, confidence and assurance. Trust create positive feelings towards

transactions with web retailers, and thus is considered as one of the major mechanisms to reduce

perceptions of behavioral uncertainty related to actions of web retailers [7].This research is focused

on examining the influential factors of consumer trust by empirical experimentation to provide a

basis for e-commerce vendors to improve their businesses.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW, RESEARCH MODEL AND

HYPOTHESES

Trust is an important factor in many social and economic activities. In the context of Internet

business, trust is critical because of the nature and also the limitations of online business—the 计算机与信息学院 本科毕业设计(论文)

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physical separation between buyers [1]. These limitations cause greater uncertainty that all

consumers try to avoid when making any purchase decisions.

In prior research, Mayer [2] proposed a model incorporating both a trusting party (trustor) and a

party to be trusted (trustee). They discussed the trustor’s perception about the trustees’

characteristics. Jarvenpaa [3] examined whether customers’ perceptions about the reputation and size

of an Internet store affect their trust in the store and Bendoly examined the channel integration on

consumer’s loyalty to a multi-channel firm.

Some of the previous research identified and examined the trust in term of one single aspect of

the trustees and trustors respectively. Our research develops a research model by involving the

attributes all variables from both aspects of trustors and trustees. As shown in Figure 1, the

consumer’s trust is mainly influenced by perceived reputation and size, multichannel integration,

system assurance, consumer feedback mechanism, propensity to trust and experience.

Figure 1. Research Model.

A. Characteristics of trustees (e-commerce vendors)

a) Perceived reputation and size

Research in traditional industrial buyer-seller relationships revealed that buyer’s perceptions of

seller’s reputation and size are the factors of trustworthiness [4].

Reputation is defined as the extent to which buyers believe a seller is professionally competent

or honest and benevolent. Reputation is vulnerable because it is harder to form a reputation than to

lose it [6]. For instance, due to the Sanlu milk powder event, customers showed great decrease in

trust in domestic milk powder producers.