The Quality of Corporate Website and its Relationship with Reputation Formation

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the impact of website quality & its Relationship with the corporate reputation forming &management; applied on DAL - Sudan by studying the corporate website users, using the descriptive analytical approach for collecting and analyzing data. The study community was (656257) users of DAL corporate website, and the study sample consisted of (400) users were taken and selected in a simple random manner to represent different age groups, gender and educational levels; by questionnaire checked with Alpha Cranach's formula for validity& reliability. The results showed that there was an effect of website quality with its dimensions (easy access & use, quality & adequacy of information, simplicity & attractiveness of design)on forming &management the corporate reputation among the website's users & followers, and there is a relationship between the interaction of website admins with users' comments & the amount of time users spend on the website, the study found that interest in users' comments contributes to their increased stay on the website and their interaction with its electronic content, in addition to its relationship with reputation forming and management. The study recommended a greater focus on the intensive application of web technologies on the website, to meet the needs and desires of users, and attention to periodic user surveys to determine the corporate status and satisfaction scores, and use it as a tool to manage and measure the corporate reputation, as the website can measure reputation electronically through users' feedback and interaction with the website content.