UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ Pham Thi My Hien ANTECEDENTS AND OUTCOME OF CONSUMER ATTITUDE TOWARD COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) SUPERVIOR Dr. Nguyen Thi Mai Trang Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 123doc Acknowledgement I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr Nguyen Thi Mai Trang for the valuable supervision, the support and encouragement she 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. Pham Thi My Hien March 2014 123doc Abstract Counterfeiting is increasing and becoming a complicated issue across different countries on the world and Vietnam is not exceptional, so the policy makers and managers always try to find ways to face with the counterfeiting and reduce counterfeit products in the market. This paper attempts to investigate the impact of the social cost and perceived risk on consumers’ attitude toward non-deceptive counterfeit products and behavioral intention to purchase these ones. In order to do this, basing on existing literature in this field, a questionnaire is designed and validated, then based on the data that were collected from the 176 respondents' answers to the designed questionnaire, the analysis is conducted and the results as well as the relations among the factors are explained.
The results show that the factor of social cost has an impact on consumers’ attitude and purchase intention toward counterfeit products. Moreover, the result indicates that intention to buy counterfeit products is influenced by consumers’ attitude toward these products. The hypotheses are tested with data collected from convenient sample of consumers in Ho Chi Minh City and the SPSS software is used to analyze the data gathered from the respondents. 123doc Table of Contents Abstract List of tables Chapter 1: Introduction .4 Research methodology and scopes.5 The structure of the study.
7 Chapter 2: Literature review and hypotheses .1 Purchase intention to counterfeit products .2 Consumers’ attitude toward purchasing counterfeit products .4 Social cost of counterfeits .5 The conceptual model. 15 Chapter 3: Research methodology .2 Measures of the constructs .4 Data analysis method. 23 Chapter 4: Data analysis and data results .2 The reliability test: The cronbach’s alpha test .3 Exploratory factor analysis (EFA).4 Multiple regression analysis. 31 Chapter 5: Conclusions, implications and limitations .4 Limitations and future research.
69 123doc List of Tables Table 3.1: The results of collecting questionnaires .2: The results of Cronbach’ alpha .3: KMO and Barlett’s Test .4: Total Variance Explained of Independent Variables .5: Rotated component maxtrix .6: Correlations matrix of social cost, risk and attitude .9: Regression result of “attitude” model .10: Correlations matrix of purchase, social cosk, risk and attitude. 45 Table 4:11: Model summary .13: Regression result of “purchase” model .14: Summary of hypotheses testing result. 48 123doc CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND Counterfeiting issue started since 1970s and is continuously spreading over the world as the result of the globalization and lowering the trading barriers in international transactions. Most of the countries have been influenced by counterfeit products and their economics have faced to the high crisis.
According to the International Chamber of Commerce, the international trade in counterfeit products is worth $650 billion. Vietnam is ranked fifty third globally about the size of its counterfeit market with total pirated market value of US$ 122 million (Counterfeit Goods and Piracy Industry, as cited in Cheng et al. According to Lai and Zaichowsky (1999), counterfeit products are identical copies of authentic brands and products. A product that has the same brand name or logo with legitimate one but without the permission of the registered owner is considered as a counterfeit or “fake” product.
According to the World Customs Organization, counterfeit products account for roughly from 7 to 10 percent of the world’s trade and their sales revenue are rising up (Arog Limited, 2008).