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Article history:
Received 9 November 2012
Received in revised form
31 March 2013
Accepted 12 May 2013
Available online 25 June 2013
This paper examines the effects of security/privacy and social presence of retailers on consumer's e-trust
in two different contexts: pure click and click and brick retailers. It explores how e-trust affects consumer
attitudes toward websites and WOM. A conceptual model is tested using Structural Equation Modeling,
on a random sample of 989 French customers. Results suggest that perceived website social presence and
perceived security/privacy exert strong and positive impacts on website credibility and benevolence,
which in turn directly inuence website attitudes and indirectly inuence word-of-mouth. One major
difference between pure click and click-and-brick retailers is that the role of social presence in
developing online benevolence is more important in the case of pure click retailers. The study concludes
with managerial implications that may be useful in retail marketing.
& 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Online customer trust
Retailer multichannel
Website security/privacy
Website social presence
Benevolence
Credibility
1. Introduction
The notion of trust has been widely studied in its different
approaches (interpersonal trust, organizational trust, trust towards
the brand, etc.) and in different areas such as psychology, management, nance or marketing (Grabner-Kruter and Kaluscha, 2003).
Also, academics have highlighted the importance of trust in
e-commerce relationships (e.g. Gefen, 2000; Pavlou, 2003).
According to Gefen and Straub (2004), trust is emphasized more
in an e-commerce context than in a traditional one because
e-vendors' unethical behaviors carry a high risk (Gefen and
Straub, 2003; Gefen and Straub, 2004; Palvia, 2009) and sometimes consumers perceive a degree of social complexity in online
transactions. Indeed, higher e-trust levels may lead to a higher
e-loyalty toward a website and more online shopping intentions
(Cyr et al., 2007; Doong et al., 2011; Flavin and Guinalu, 2006) as
well as increased intentions to participate in exchange relationships with online retailers (Palvia, 2009).
Online trust is dened as the conviction that allows consumers
to willingly become exposed to web retailers after having taken
the retailers' characteristics into consideration (Pavlou, 2003). The
importance of trust is further emphasized in an online transaction
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2. Literature review
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2.2.1. Security/privacy
Security/privacy is among the more challenging issues in online
services and the development of e-commerce (Aladwani, 2001;
Chen and Dibb, 2010; Dong-Her et al., 2004). Many studies on
website usage safety and consumer security and privacy protection have been published (e.g., Chen and Dibb, 2010; Miyazaki and
Krishnamurthy, 2002). Flavin and Guinalu (2006: 604) dene
perceived security as the subjective probability with which
consumers believe that their personal information (private and
monetary) will not be viewed, stored, and manipulated during
transit and storage by inappropriate parties in a manner consistent
with their condent expectations. Security issues in e-commerce
are related to the abilities of e-merchants to protect their online
transaction systems (Angriawan and Thakur, 2008). Consumers
consider security as an important factor when purchasing goods or
services on the Internet (Belanger et al., 2002). For this reason,
seals of approval, which are perceived as indicators of security by
consumers, have been adopted by many websites and have been
reported to have positive effects on trustworthiness (Bart et al.,
2005). According to Angriawan and Thakur (2008), system security perception is a crucial component of online trust.
Privacy, however, is generally dened as the individuals ability to
control the terms by which his personal information is acquired and
used (Galanxhi-Janaqi and Fui-Hoon Nah, 2004). According to Flavin
and Guinalu (2006), the close relationship between the concepts of
privacy and security exists at three different levels: the consumer level
(there is a close relationship between the two concepts in the minds of
consumers); the company level (companies tend to handle both
concepts jointly); and the public level (the public, including government and legislation, views both concepts as closely related). Chen and
Dibb (2010) nd that security and privacy assurances, as well as
product information quality, are among the signicant website-related
antecedents of online trust. Flavin and Guinalu (2006) conrm that
trust in the Internet is chiey inuenced by the security consumers
perceive with respect to the use of their private data. Thus, online
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542
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Table 1
Measurement scales.
Constructs and indicators
Security/Privacy
I am reassured by the payment security on this website
I believe that my personal and nancial data are well-protected on this website
I believe that this website guarantees the privacy of my transactions
Social presence
I feel a sense of human contact on this website
I feel a sense of sociability on this website
I feel a sense of human warmth on this website
Cronbach's
alpha
St.
loading
Composite
reliability
Convergence
index
AVEa
0.89
0.85
0.86
0.86
0.89
0.73
0.94
0.92
0.91
0.92
0.96
0.84
0.89
0.81
0.77
0.89
0.82
0.90
0.70
0.91
0.90
0.86
0.88
0.89
0.76
0.94
0.94
0.94
Credibility
I believe this website is an expert in his eld
0.92
I can count on this website to complete my transactions in the promised time delay
I know what to expect from this website
This website respects its engagements in terms of rates and prices posted
I believe the promised service or the product delivered corresponds to the description presented on
the website
Benevolence
I think this website will be prepared to solve my problems
In case of problems, I think it is easy to lodge a complaint on this website
In case of problems, I think this website would make all the necessary efforts to solve them
Website's attitude
My overall opinion on this website is very favorable
This website leaves a very good impression to its visitors
a
0.88
Average Variance Extracted (AVE) for each construct (Fornell and Larcker, 1981).
Fig. 1 shows the theoretical framework of our research, illustrating the proposed relationships/hypotheses:
3. Methodology
3.1. Procedure and sample
An online survey was administered to respondents with online
purchase experience (e.g., books, CDs, DVDs, etc.). Data were gathered
by Easy Panel, an online French company specializing in online
marketing research. Easy Panel has an online Access Panel of approximately 120,000 Internet users, with a response rate of 20 to 30%.
According to Comley (2007), online panels are increasingly being used
as a mode of data collection for market research.
A sample of respondents, drawn randomly from the companys
online panel, was invited by e-mail to participate in the 15-min
survey. The sample included consumers who made a purchase
from one of ve online vendors in the past six months: Priceminister, La redoute, Amazon, FNAC and C-Discount. A total of 1152
consumers answered the survey, and 163 questionnaires were
eliminated from the analysis due to missing data. Therefore 989
questionnaires constituted the nal sample for analysis. The
sample consisted of 51% of men and 49% of women. Respondents
age varied between 18 and 83 years with an average age of 40
years. Of the sample, 69.6% were living with a partner or a spouse.
More than a half of respondents (52%) were employees in public or
private institutions and 22% were merchants or entrepreneurs.
3.2. Measurement
Measures were adopted or derived from previous studies on
online shopping for consistency. The dimensions of trust, credibility and benevolence, were measured by six and four items
respectively. All items measuring trust components were derived
from Hess (1995), Gefen and Straub (2004) and Gurviez and
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1. Security/privacy
2. Social presence
3. Credibility
4. Benevolence
5. Website attitude
6. Word of mouth
0.73
0.21
0.69
0.56
0.49
0.42
0.84
0.18
0.45
0.37
0.20
0.69
0.60
0.62
0.55
0.88
0.74
0.90
a
Average variance extracted on the diagonal and squared correlations between
constructs off diagonal.
5. Discussion
This study highlights the importance of nurturing consumer
trust in the context of e-commerce. The results show that
Table 3
T-test comparison between pure click and click-and-brick.
545
Construct
Type of presence
Mean (s)
t (sig. 2-tailed)
Security/privacy
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
Click
600
389
600
389
600
389
600
389
600
389
7.52
7.72
5.62
5.79
7.62
7.77
6.68
7.13
7.22
7.32
1.82 (0.07)n
6. Managerial implications
1.01 (0.31)
Social presence
Credibility
Benevolence
Website attitude
Sig at 10%.
Sig at 5%.
nn
and brick
and brick
and brick
and brick
and brick
(1.6)
(1.7)
(2.1)
(2.0)
(1.6)
(1.7)
(2.0)
(1.8)
(1.7)
(1.7)
1.32 (0.18)
3.52 (0.00)nn
0.81 (0.42)
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Table 4
Results for the cross-group analysis: pure click versus click and brick.
Click
Click and brick
Congural invariance
Full metric invariance
Partial metric invariance
Full structural invariance
Partial structural invariance
Chi2
df
Chi2/df
RMSEA
GFI
NFI
TLI
CFI
Diff chi2
Action
473.336
362.300
835.667
855.383
851.745
877.815
872.827
112
112
224
235
234
241
240
4.226
3.235
3.731
3.640
3.640
3.642
3.637
0.073
0.076
0.053
0.052
0.052
0.052
0.052
0.915
0.902
0.910
0.908
0.908
0.904
0.904
0.954
0.948
0.952
0.951
0.951
0.949
0.950
0.957
0.956
0.956
0.958
0.958
0.958
0.958
0.964
0.964
0.964
0.964
0.964
0.963
0.963
0.049
0.097
0.05
0.18
Table 5
Regression results for the cross-group analysis: pure click versus click and brick.
Click
Social presence-Benevolence
Social presence-Credibility
Security-Credibility
Security-Benevolence
Benevolence-Attitude
Credibility-Attitude
Click-and-brick
0.387
0.068
0.886
0.742
0.287
0.579
13.669
3.992
26.143
22.460
9.892
15.975
***
***
***
***
***
***
0.308
0.068
0.886
0.742
0.287
0.579
11.089
3.992
26.143
22.460
9.892
15.975
***
***
***
***
***
***
Acknowledgment
The authors acknowledge the generous participation of Christian Barbaray, CEO of INIT Marketing, and his consulting company
http://www.init-marketing.fr/ in gathering the data from French
consumers.
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