Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques
2020, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages: 6-12
the external factors in moderating the customer reaction of
perceived service (9). However, the presence of internal
characteristics, such as personal innovativeness is still limited.
So far, research examining the influence of personal
innovativeness that potentially moderates the customers post-
adoption of M-commerce is limited or not extensive (5, 32).
Therefore, this study tries to address this issue and fulfill the
gap in the literature by investigating the influence of perceived
OFD service quality on customer satisfaction and customer
loyalty and the role of personal innovativeness in moderating
the customer satisfaction and customer loyalty linkage.
In this regard, this study adopts the quantitative and cross-
sectional approach using M-S-QUAL (23) as the instrument to
capture the perceived OFD service quality. This paper firstly
proceeds with an introduction, the objectives of the study and
the test conducted to obtain the reliable measures of the
variables; Secondly, it continues with a brief literature review;
Thirdly, it describes the conceptual framework consisting of
the conceptual model and hypothesis related to Online food
delivery (OFD) service quality, customer satisfaction,
customer loyalty, personal innovativeness based on the review
of the current evidence of these relationships. Fourthly, it
discusses the methodology used. Fifth, it highlights the results
of the analysis using correlation and Moderated Regression
analyses. Finally, the results are then discussed and
implications highlighted.
comprises of 22 items in four dimensions: efficiency,
fulfillment, system availability, and privacy. Additionally, in
the same study, to measure the recovery aspect of service
quality the authors also developed e-recovery scale (E-RecS-
QUAL) which consist of 11 items in three dimensions:
Responsiveness, Compensation, and Contact (38). Even
though, m-commerce is often portrayed as the continuation of
e-commerce the existing electronic service quality may not be
proper. It leads to the need of specific measurement for mobile
commerce service quality as it has its own characteristics (33).
A number of scholars have formulated and suggested
various factors to operationalize mobile service quality.
According to Lu et al., m-service quality perceived is the form
of interaction, environment, and outcome qualities (32,33).
These are evaluated based on sub-dimensions of each
dimension, namely attitude, expertise, problem-solving and
information for interaction quality, equipment, design, and
situation for environmental quality, and punctuality, tangibles,
and valence for outcome quality. Lin state dimensions to assess
mobile service quality differently (30,31). They suggest using
functionality, content, customer service and interface design.
Moreover, to measure mobile service quality that has physical
and virtual product Huang et al., introduce the specific
measurement for mobile quality service, namely M-S-QUAL,
which consists of five dimensions: contact, responsiveness,
fulfillment, privacy and efficiency of virtual product and four
dimensions for physical product: contact, responsiveness,
fulfillment and efficiency. In the context of OFD, this present
study adopts a mobile service quality scale (M-S-QUAL)
developed by Huang et al., that has been widely used to
operationalize service quality for virtual and physical products
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Literature Review
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.1 Mobile Service Quality
As this study aims to examine the relationship of perceived
(
23).
service quality of OFD grounded from M-S-QUAL on
customer satisfaction and loyalty, it is important to understand
how the mobile service quality evolved in the literature.
Hence, the following paragraph starts with the initial service
quality model, followed by the evolving of the electronic
service quality literature and finally mobile service quality
literature in relation to this study setting.
Service quality has been substantially studied in the
literature (6, 12, 15, 17, 25) but SERVQUAL of Parasuraman
is the most influential seminal work which developed the
instrument of service quality dimensions, namely Tangibles,
Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy (40) .
Basically, service quality is the form of customer perception
during the purchasing process and also when the
product/service is being delivered and recognized as the gap
model which is the comparison between the customer’s
perception of perceived service with their expectation (39).
However, the evaluation of perceived service quality varies
according to industries (14, 33). Thus, the existing scale of
service quality may not be generalized in electronic service
quality setting.
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.2 Customer Satisfaction
Previous studies indicate that firms with high competitive
advantage must capture the customers’ positive response first
before reaching competitiveness (7, 11). This positive
response is characterized as a satisfied customer with the
service perceived after experiencing the service quality. In
fact, in mobile commerce, this attitudinal response is important
for the company to fully understand the quality of their service
(
27). So that, firms need to provide superior service in order to
achieve customer satisfaction. It explains that service quality
has a strong relationship with service quality (36). This link is
supported by Expectation Disconfirmation Theory (EDT) that
explains the post-purchase cognitive response of service.
H1: Mobile service quality positively affects customer
satisfaction
To improve the market share, mobile service business
needs to obtain a competitive strategy that caters to customers’
needs in order to achieve long-term success (29, 43). This
means the customer becomes loyal to the service. Unlike
satisfaction, customer loyalty can be categorized in behavioral
and attitudinal (11, 18). Furthermore, in technology-based
service perceived service quality has a positive impact on
customer loyalty (24). Therefore, there is a link between
service quality and customer loyalty and we hypothesized:
The wide advancement of technology and wired
communication devices have thriven the service quality
literature to adopt this advancement (16, 43). The
transformation of the way service is being delivered from
offline to online also lead this trend to the development an
Electronic Service Quality (E-S-QUAL) to gauge the service
quality delivered from websites (37,38). Initial E-S-QUAL
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