Evaluation of quality of online shopping services in times of COVID-19 based on E-S-QUAL model and Fuzzy TOPSIS method.

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Av. Academico Helio Ramos, S/N, CDU, Recife, Pernambuco 50.740-530 Brazil Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Published: December 2022

This paper aims to propose an approach to evaluate the quality of online shopping services in times of pandemic COVID-19, from the ordering of quality attributes taking into account customers' perception. The proposed approach was developed from a structured questionnaire containing 25 quality attributes adapted from the E-S-QUAL model and applied to consumers of online shopping services. Fuzzy set theory was used in the approach to simplify the subjectivity of human judgment, along with the extension of Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Therefore, this research was classified as applied, exploratory, quantitative and survey. To achieve the research objective, 819 questionnaires were collected. Among the main findings, it is highlighted that the attributes "product availability", "products with excellent quality", "confidence in online shopping processes" and "ease of buying online" were the ones that presented the best perceptions of quality by the respondents. At the other end, the attributes "opinion sharing on social networks", "buying online is a good option when you have little time", "distraction in online shopping searches" and "shopping online is a pleasure" showed the highest level of dissatisfaction with the service. Thus, this article highlights the importance of online shopping services in times of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, and its main contribution and originality is the development of an approach that aims to support the decision-making process, establishing strategic actions for the continuous improvement of online shopping services with the reduction of subjectivity in customer perception and with successive refinements.

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