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Measuring service convenience of e-retailers:
an exploratory study in India
Sablu Khan* and Mohd Afaq Khan
Department of Business Administration,
Faculty of Management Studies and Research,
Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India
Email: sablumba@gmail.com
Email: afaq061960@gmail.com
*Corresponding author
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to conceptualise and explore the
strategic importance of e-retailers’ service convenience. This study suggests
that e-service convenience is a vital factor in the e-buyers buying behaviour.
E-service convenience provides customer experience during e-shopping. The
present study is done to adapt the scale developed by Jiang et al. (2013) to
measure e-service convenience for the e-retailers. The findings of the present
study contribute and extend theory by adapting the e-service convenience scale
for e-retailers. This study has also added two new constructs (e.g., order
convenience and logistics/reverse-logistics convenience) for e-service
convenience in e-retailing context. The findings and the new e-service
convenience scale will be helpful for e-retailers and marketers to improve its
services.
Keywords: e-commerce; e-service convenience scale; e-retailer; e-shopping;
India.
Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Khan, S. and Khan, M.A.
(2018) ‘Measuring service convenience of e-retailers: an exploratory study in
India’, Int. J. Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 3,
pp.353–367.
Biographical notes: Sablu Khan is working as a Senior Research Fellow
(SRF-UGC) in the Department of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim
University, Aligarh, India. He delivered his lectures in International Marketing
and Service Marketing. His areas of interest include the emerging sectors like
social media marketing, e-retailing and service marketing of e-retailers. He
participated in different national and international conferences in management.
Mohd Afaq Khan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Business Administration, Faculty of Management Studies and Research,
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He has done his PhD in Business
Administration on Overseas Marketing of Floriculture Products from the
Faculty of Management Studies and Research, Aligarh Muslim University. He
has been teaching International Business to the students of MBA since the last
15 years. He published more than a 20 research papers in reputed/refereed
journals and guided PhD Scholars, seven of whom have been awarded degrees.
His areas of interest include emerging sectors like BPO/KPO, pharmaceuticals,
textiles and garments, and floriculture. He has been delivering lectures on
WTO to exporters of brassware, building fittings and hardware at the National
Small Industries Corporation, Aligarh.