Abstract
In an increasingly competitive market, retaining customers is essential for both e-retailers and online shopping platforms. This study focuses on relationship quality as it pertains to repurchase intentions in Ghana. The mediating role of price level is addressed. The results show that customer trust, customer commitment, and customer satisfaction affect price level. Customer trust and satisfaction affect repurchase intention, but customer commitment does not affect repurchase intention. Also, price level mediates the relationship between relationship quality and repurchase intention. Implications of these findings are discussed.
1. Introduction
The recent technological growth and innovations have made more companies come into the scene. For example, the government of Ghana’s flagship program dubbed the One-District-One-Factory (1d1f), when completed, is expected to increase the country’s number by at least two hundred and seventy (270). The effect of the risen number of companies (both online and offline companies) is that competition in the market will be high, so as customer retention.
6. Conclusion
This study investigates how relationship quality constructs influence online consumer intention to repurchase in the Ghanaian context. To achieve this, a conceptual framework was developed, and hypotheses were raised. The empirical findings provided some contributions. Despite this, the research has some limitations. The study area was Ghana, and as such, the findings may not apply to other geographical regions. Also, the study measured only the online consumers repurchase intention. Future research should measure the consumers’ actual repurchase behavior to test our conceptual model. Lastly, the research variables were measured at one time. We suggest future studies should take a longitudinal technique into consideration to confirm if the findings would remain the same as consumers continue to repurchase from the same e-retailer or e-commerce platform.
