Conceptualization of Online Customer Satisfaction. For the
conceptualization of customer satisfaction, Fornell (1992) and Anderson, Fornell, and
Lehmann (1994) pointed out that customer satisfaction can be defined as a positive
evaluation of performance based on all prior experiences with a firm. Furthermore,
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Oliver (1997) considered that "satisfaction is the consumer's fulfillment response. It is
a judgment that a product or service feature, or the product or service itself, provided (or
is providing) a pleasurable level of consumption-related fulfillment, including levels of
under - or overfulfillment" (Oliver, 1997, p. 13).