Bir e-ticaret platformunda müşteri memnuniyetini etkileyen faktörler: İran'da bulunan Digikala'nın vaka analizi

In the era of globalization, E-commerce is a great revolution, which has made life simple and innovative for everyone. In online shopping, customers demand to receive high quality products and services. If they perceive that the current website is unsatisfactory, they move away to another one easily. So customer satisfaction in e-commerce is different from physical market where customers have access to see products. Like other countries, online shopping has gradually become more popular in Iran and competition among e-retailors becomes continuously fierce in this industry. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the key factors that affect the level of customer satisfaction in Digikala Company, which is one of the biggest Iranian B2C e-commerce platforms. For this reason, emphasis took place on the elements of website design, information quality, website usability, order fulfillment quality, security and privacy and also trust. Based on these factors, six hypotheses of the study were developed as part of the research model. Conducted research method was quantitative research, based on a self-administered questionnaire that was sent by email to the respondents. The data was collected from 416 respondents, who had done online shopping at least four times monthly. Acquired data were analyzed with Multiple Regression in SPSS 18.0 and AMOS software. The findings revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between all mentioned factors and customer satisfaction. Out of these six significant factors, security and privacy played a stronger influence than other ones. Based on the results, conclusion, managerial implications, suggestions and limitations were discussed. E-retailors and e-commerce service designers can utilize findings of this study to know about how to improve satisfaction level of their customers and as a result gain competitive advantage based on a better understanding of their customers' needs, wants and expectations.