Title :
Main business service dimensions in an e-commerce environment
Author :
Yang, Ying ; Humphreys, Paul ; McIvor, Ronan ; Yang, Biao
Author_Institution :
Ulster Univ., UK
Abstract :
Improving service quality has long been recognized as a key business strategy in consumer market. However, little is written in the literature about service among business organizations. The shortage of knowledge on business service (BS) poses a significant challenge in tracking and improving BS quality in today´s e-commerce environment. To address this, this paper takes a first step to identify main BS dimensions in an e-commerce environment. It first provides a review on BS. Then the BS gap model and main BS dimension are identified. The paper concludes with a summary and future research suggestions.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; business organization; business service dimension; business strategy; consumer market; e-commerce environment; service quality; Companies; Electronic commerce; Information retrieval; Mass customization; Organizational aspects; Quality management; Supply chains; Technological innovation; Uncertainty; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Web Services, 2005. ICWS 2005. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2409-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICWS.2005.73