Journal of Information Technology Management

Journal of Information Technology Management

The Effect of Electronic Services Quality on Trust-Building in Online Customers of Tehran’s Brokerage Firms

Authors
Ali Asghar Sajedi Far
Mohammad Rahim Esfidani
Mohammad Hosein Vahdatzad
Meysam Mahmoudi Azar
10.22059/jitm.2012.25001
Abstract
In today's world, with the growth of electronic commerce, customer’s trust has become very important. Electronic services provide a unique opportunity for businesses to present new models of value creation to customers. The quality of electronic services has a considerable effect on customers’ mental judgments about services and plays an important role in building the trust in them. This article is trying to analyze the effect of electronic services quality of Tehran brokerage firms in building customers trust regarding the importance of their trust in these services. In order to accomplish the above-mentioned objective, a questionnaire has been designed and surveyed, aimed to provide a model to express the factors affecting trust, emphasizing the role of electronic service quality, perceived risk and perceived value. Gathering the data from 373 customers and using structural equation modeling to analyze, some suggestions have been presented in order to improve the electronic services quality of brokerage firms. The results show that, in brokerage firms, there is a positive and meaningful relation between electronic services quality and customers’ trust.
Keywords
Brokerage Firm
Electronic Services Quality
Online Trust
Structural Equation Modeling
Journal of Information Technology Management
Volume 4, Issue 11 - Serial Number 11
مدیریت فناوری اطلاعات
Summer 2012
Pages 47-68