The Mediating Role of Customer Experience on the Relationship between Online Shopping Determinants and Customer Satisfaction in Vietnam

Abstract

The negative impacts of COVID-19 to every aspects of social-economic structure lead to the retail industry’s changes by shifting from traditional way to online shopping. Although Vietnam is potential market of e-commerce, there are still lots of barriers of online shopping to customer behaviour, especially how to improve the customer experience in purchasing process. Therefore, this paper analyses the mediating role of customer experience on the relationship between online shopping determinants such as: payment barrier, bad complaint resolve, slow delivery process, poor product quality, technical problem, and customer satisfaction in Vietnam. The online survey is conducted according to the related theories, relevant empirical evidence, and pilot study to collect reliable data from 360-400 respondents in Ho Chi Minh city and Ha Noi city. Some quantitative data analysis techniques are proposed and used in this study, including descriptive statistics, reliability, explanatory factor analysis, variance analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. For using them, the researcher expects that all factors have significant and negative effect on customer satisfaction through customer experience. By developing one of the first research attempt on pre-normal phase of COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers believes the marketers and top managers at e-commerce companies in Vietnam to have sufficient information about how their customers’ experience with online shopping platforms and related services.