Wang, Juanjuan; Jiang, Lin and Liu, Wentong. 2023. Will Alibaba’s additional financial service contribute to sellers’ satisfaction and loyalty during the pandemic? – Evidence from Taobao sellers. Asia Pacific Business Review, 29(2), pp. 417-438. ISSN 1360-2381 [Article]

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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has shown dramatic growth in recent decades, and sellers on e-commerce platforms have also been affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic. By collecting data from 313 Taobao sellers, we investigated the relationships among e-commerce platform additional financial service quality, sellers’ satisfaction, and loyalty to the platform, as well as the moderating roles of sellers’ financial pressure during the pandemic and perceived COVID-19 government financial support in the satisfaction-loyalty relationship. Our results show that better financial service quality enhances sellers’ satisfaction with the platform, which in turn translates into platform loyalty. We also evidence the moderating effects of COVID-related financial pressure and sellers’ perception of COVID-related government financial relief policy on the satisfaction-loyalty relationship. Our research makes potential contributions to the e-commerce field and provides timely guidance for e-commerce practice in the pandemic period.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2022.2126167
Additional Information:	“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Asia Pacific Business Review on 4 October 2022, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13602381.2022.2126167. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”
Keywords:	Electronic commerce; e-commerce platform; financial service quality; satisfaction-loyalty relationship; COVID-19; government financial support
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute of Management Studies
Dates:	Date Event 15 September 2022 Accepted 4 October 2022 Published Online 2023 Published
Item ID:	32347
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2022 13:24
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2024 01:26
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32347

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