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Chapter 22
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to determine the factors afecting electronic service brand equity and to
investigate consumers’ perceptions of the electronic service brands they prefer. Additionally, the study,
based on the Rios and Riquelme’s electronic brand equity model, determines whether demographic
characteristics of consumers cause signiicant diferences regarding perceptions of electronic service
brand equity. Within the context of this study, an electronic service site in the book/magazine sector was
employed. The survey sample size was 675 as a result of an electronic survey administered on selected
Websites. The reliability of the scales used in the survey was tested via Cronbach’s Alfa Method and the
validity of the scales were tested via Factor Analysis. Hypotheses of the survey were tested using diference
methods (e.g., ANOVA, multiple regression analysis, T-test). It was determined that e-image, e-quality,
e-loyalty, e-trust, e-awareness, and e-value factors are efective for developing electronic service brand
equity. Furthermore, it can be claimed that age, income, and education cause signiicant diferences
regarding perceptions of electronic service brand equity, while gender, occupation, and marital status
do not cause signiicant diferences of perceptions regarding the same.
Factors Affecting Electronic
Service Brand Equity
Salih Yıldız
Gümüşhane University, Turkey
Hüseyin Sabri Kurtuldu
Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4749-7.ch022