Refining e-shoppers’ perceived risks: Development and validation of new measurement scale

Shahid Bashir, Muddasar Ghani Khwaja, Asif Mahmood, Jamshid Ali Turi, Khawaja Fawad Latif

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Abstract

Due to the rapid expansion of perceived e-shopping risks, and highly isolated and inconsistent presentation of literature about this concept, understanding e-shopper's behavior has become more difficult. In this regard, this study brings together different views, evidences and facts about perceived e-shopping risks from both scholars and practitioners of South-East Asian and Western countries. It then interprets the information in the form of a new scale which offers more adequacy, assemblage and uniformity than the existing models of perceived risks of e-shoppers. The new scale of construct has 11 dimensions comprising a pool of 38 items, which has been empirically validated through the data collected from 537 Malaysian e-shoppers. The dimensions are: high price risk, deception risk, transaction failure risk, dissimilar product risk, incapable service risk, illegitimate product risk, isolation risk, unease risk, displeasure risk, prior-purchase time delays risk, and post-purchase time delays risk. The theoretical and managerial implications and research limitations have also been discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102285
JournalJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Volume58
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Consumer behavior
  • E-business
  • E-shopping
  • Perceived e-shopping risks
  • Scale development

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