UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ VO MINH HUNG Assoc. Professor Le Nguyen Hau FACTORS AFFECTING THE CONSUMER PURCHASE INTENTION OF LAPTOP IN HO CHI MINH CITY MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) 1 Acknowledgement I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Assoc. Professor Le Nguyen Hau for the valuable supervision, the support and encouragement he gave me. I would like to express my gratitude to my ISB class friends for SPPS directions.
Your encouragement, excellent guidance, and critical comments have greatly contributed to this thesis. Finally, I would like to thank all of the respondents without whom, this research would have been impossible. Vo Minh Hung Febuary 2014 2 Abstract Nowadays, laptop has dramatically become a part of life tool for people around the world, especially for young adult. They use laptop to communicate with people, download songs and games, texting message and so on.
Laptop has the ability to provides, obtain, and shares personal and social information. Through these benefits, young adults can create visual form of communication method, update their status in time, and interacted with each other in anytime and anywhere. Laptop also provided the capabilities of integrating wireless connections, 3G. Although the demand of young adults towards laptop in market is high, there is still a slow growth of market demand in certain area.
The motivation of young adults to adopt a laptop in Vietnam is slightly lower than neighbor country, such as Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are the three biggest markets for such gadgets and collectively consume over 70 percent of the region‟s sales volume while contributing 67 percent to the overall dollar value (RickMartin 2012). Laptop firm does not have better understanding the preferences of consumer to own a laptop. Firms will face the difficulty of fast growth on the business and difficulty to expand business.
The main purpose of this research is to explore the factors affecting purchase intention of laptop in Vietnam. Researchers have identified four factors that affecting purchase intention of laptop during this research, which included relative advantages, price, social influence, compatibility. Throughout this research, firms may have a better understanding on the intention to purchase a laptop. This coming research will use 3 quantitative research method, conducted from surveying of laptop purchasers in Ho Chi Minh City Key words: Intention, Laptop, Relative Advantages, Price, Social Influence, Compatibility.
4 Table of Contents Abstract………………….3 Table of Content………………………………………………………………………….5 Table of Figure………………………………………………………….………………8 Table of Table……………………………………………………………………………9 1. Scope of the research. Significance of the Study. Structure of the Thesis.
Antecedents of purchase intention. Development of Research Hypotheses. Relationship between Price and Purchase Intension. Relationship between relative advantage, compatibility and Purchase Intension.
Relationship between Social Influences and Purchase Intension. Research Model and Hypothesis. Data Collection Methods. Data Analysis Technique.
Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Multiple Regression Analysis. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Multiple Regression Analysis.
Assumption: Homoscedasticity of residuals. Assumption: No multicollinearity. Relationship between relative advantage and purchase intention. Relationship between price and purchase intention.
Relationship between compatibility and purchase intention. Relationship between social influence and purchase intention. Limitation of the Study. Recommendations for Future Research .53 7 Table of Figures Figure 2.3: The research model and hypotheses.
25 8 Table of Tables Table 3.2: Survey item summary.2: Result of Reliability Test.1: KMO of Indepent Variable.2: KMO of Depent Variable.3: Rotated Component Matrix of Indepent Variable. 48 9 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The research explores the factors affecting purchase intention of laptop of users in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This chapter includes research background, research problem, research objective, and significance of the study. Research Background Most of the personal computers nowadays are laptops, because they are easier to carry and more connectivity than a desktop computer.
Laptop technology, with its utilities and powerful functionality, is inevitably changing peoples‟ behaviors; especially young adults using laptop frequently today. CourseSmart, which is the world„s largest provider of digital course materials and eTextbooks, found that university students can„t go long without checking their digital devices, including smartphone, laptop and more (CourseSmart, 2011).