5. Conclusions
This paper is an attempt to identify the main factors affecting the online service satisfaction of the e-commerce websites in China, and Fuzzy TOPSIS is employed to evaluate the e-service quality through internet for the online consumers. Considering the differences among B2C, C2C and B2B e-commerce, and this research is focus on B2C e-commerce websites in China, the top 15 B2C e-commerce websites in retail market are selected based on the user coverage.
According to the result of this research, there exist large gap among the selected top 15 B2C e-commerce websites in China in terms of the e-service quality, for example, the highest score among these e-commerce websites is 0.899587, whereas the lowest scores is 0.212731. The top three e-commerce websites (Tmall, Jingdong Mall and Tencent) have the relatively better performance than others. According to the criteria weights derived from this section earlier, the suggestions for these e-commerce websites to improve their e-service are: (1) the e-commerce companies shall improve the customer service to excellent standards; (2) the e-commerce companies shall focus on flexibility and responsiveness to be able to adapt to market changes; (3) the e-commerce companies shall focus on efficiency to make sure the online shoppers can search the goods they wanted in short time; (4) the e-commerce companies shall improve the assurance to absorb more online shoppers and (5) the e-commerce companies should promote ease of use through better user interface design on the websites.