英文摘要 |
The current dilemma facing the online shop is the dramatically increasing cost of returning goods. The loss and required mechanism of handling the returning goods would significantly cut the profit. Nevertheless, the research literature using the quantitative and probability models to deal with the issue of returning goods is scarce. This study proposes the quantitative and probability models and collects data through three ways: the online shopping discussion board of the largest BBS in Taiwan, and sending email and paper survey to the students of the college of management, reporting data collected from 544 respondents. The results of the analysis of hierarchical logistic regression show that the customer service dimension and product dimension significantly influence whether the customers return goods after experiencing service failure, while the security dimension does not. The probability of returning goods for the customers thinking highly of customer service is 1.948 times than that of the customers who do not. The probability of returning goods for the customers thinking highly of product dimension is 1.509 times than that of the customers who do not. The results also indicate that online shopping experience significantly affects whether the customers return goods or not over the Internet. The probability of returning goods for the customers with half a year of online shopping experience is 0.204 times than the ones with more than two years of online shopping experience. Additionally, the probability of returning goods for the cutomers with more than two years of online shopping experience and experiencing returning goods is significantly higher than the ones that do not. The precision rate of predicting whether the customers return goods, using our models, is higher than 75%. According to our models, the probability of returning goods for the customers who experience the service failure is 70%. The managerial implications will be provided. |