Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia

The globalization of business and marketing has provided consumers, all over the world, with many options to purchase products. The situation is more complex especially in the area where the regions as part of the share lands and boundaries between countries like Sarawak Malaysia and Kalimantan Bara...

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Main Author: Heriyadi, Kusyarnadi
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Published: 2016
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spelling my-unimas-ir.209202023-04-17T07:47:28Z Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia 2016 Heriyadi, Kusyarnadi H Social Sciences (General) The globalization of business and marketing has provided consumers, all over the world, with many options to purchase products. The situation is more complex especially in the area where the regions as part of the share lands and boundaries between countries like Sarawak Malaysia and Kalimantan Barat-Indonesia. In the international marketing literature’s theories, tremendous attention has been given to examining the extent to which the image of the country-of-origin of the product and consumer ethnocentrism influences consumer perception and product evaluation. But still, the research about country image and consumer ethnocentrism that is conducted in the border area is very rare and limited. This study investigates the attitudes of the consumers and how they evaluate the products from both countries (Indonesia-Malaysia). The objectives of this thesis is to justify the relationship among variables (consumer ethnocentrism, country of origin image, Beliefs, and Attitudes) based on the framework of the proposed model. Moreover, this thesis explores the mediating role of COI and Beliefs on the relationship of consumer ethnocentrism with attitudes and relationship between COI and attitudes. These relationships will each be assessed at the level of product involvement (High-Low), cross-national characteristics (Indonesia-Malaysia), and the cross-culture of the ethnic groups (Malay-Chinese Malaysian Chinese and Malay Indonesian). The structural equation modeling (SEM) approach is employed in this study. The proposed reach a better goodness of fit. Hence, the proposed model can be used to explain the influence of Consumer Ethnocentrism and Country of origin image on beliefs and attitudes for both Car and Noodle. All hypothesized relationship and mediating effect are supported. unimas 2016 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20920/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20920/1/Heriyadi.pdf text en validuser other UNIMAS
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Heriyadi, Kusyarnadi
Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
description The globalization of business and marketing has provided consumers, all over the world, with many options to purchase products. The situation is more complex especially in the area where the regions as part of the share lands and boundaries between countries like Sarawak Malaysia and Kalimantan Barat-Indonesia. In the international marketing literature’s theories, tremendous attention has been given to examining the extent to which the image of the country-of-origin of the product and consumer ethnocentrism influences consumer perception and product evaluation. But still, the research about country image and consumer ethnocentrism that is conducted in the border area is very rare and limited. This study investigates the attitudes of the consumers and how they evaluate the products from both countries (Indonesia-Malaysia). The objectives of this thesis is to justify the relationship among variables (consumer ethnocentrism, country of origin image, Beliefs, and Attitudes) based on the framework of the proposed model. Moreover, this thesis explores the mediating role of COI and Beliefs on the relationship of consumer ethnocentrism with attitudes and relationship between COI and attitudes. These relationships will each be assessed at the level of product involvement (High-Low), cross-national characteristics (Indonesia-Malaysia), and the cross-culture of the ethnic groups (Malay-Chinese Malaysian Chinese and Malay Indonesian). The structural equation modeling (SEM) approach is employed in this study. The proposed reach a better goodness of fit. Hence, the proposed model can be used to explain the influence of Consumer Ethnocentrism and Country of origin image on beliefs and attitudes for both Car and Noodle. All hypothesized relationship and mediating effect are supported.
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title Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
title_short Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
title_full Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
title_fullStr Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in Indonesia and Malaysia : Case study of West Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia
title_sort impact of consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin image on consumer beliefs and attitudes to purchase products made in indonesia and malaysia : case study of west kalimantan, indonesia and sarawak, malaysia
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