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Abstract
Abstract Service strategy literature emphasizes the alignment of target market, service concept, and service delivery system. This article reports scale development of a resource bundle that is useful to implement service strategies in Internet retailing. Three dimensions of the resource bundle are proposed in this study. They cover three alignment parts between target market and service concept, service concept and service delivery system, and target market and service delivery system. To rigorously develop the measurement scale, this study uses a two-stage procedure which comprises an item-level study that uses judges and a scale-level study that employs a survey of Internet retailers. Finally, a second-order measurement model of the resource bundle with a total of 14 measurement items was established. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis reveal empirical evidence of resource complementarities, thereby providing critical information about desirable resource allocation for Internet commerce and, in turn, carrying some managerial implications.
期刊介绍:
The business world has undergone many changes because of information technology, and the impact of the Internet may cause one of the biggest yet. While many people use the Internet for educational and entertainment purposes, organizations and companies are looking for ways to tie their internal networks to this global network to conduct electronic commerce. While companies have been conducting business electronically with suppliers and customers for many years, conducting online commerce via the Internet offers even greater opportunities for multinational, national, and even small businesses to cut costs, improve efficiency, and reach a global market.