Empirical Analysis of Factors Influencing Consumers' Satisfaction in Online Shopping Agricultural Products in China

• DOI: 10.4018/jeco.2018070106
• Publication Date: 2018-06-05T17:29:41Z
• Authors: Wu Yanyan
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences

With the development of e-commerce, online shopping for agricultural products has been more popular. And how to improve consumer's satisfaction has become more important. Literature review shows that few researches on online purchasing agricultural food focus on the consumers' satisfaction. This article designs a questionnaire, including 20 factors based on agricultural product characteristics, website quality and service quality to evaluate consumers' satisfaction. The evaluation shows that service quality, agricultural products' safety, brand and website quality significantly impact consumer satisfaction. Moreover, service quality is the most important factor. Finally, some recommendations are made in this article to develop cold chain logistics system, strictly control the agricultural products quality, build an agricultural products brand, improve the quality of agricultural product websites and strengthen policy control and guidance.