Understanding student's online shopping behaviour: A study among undergraduate students in UUM

The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence student's behavior towards online shopping. Students are one of the target markets towards the online retailer as they have money and interest. Most of these students are not working and most of them are provided with the education...

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Main Author: Fatin Alia, Shahar
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Understanding student's online shopping behaviour: A study among undergraduate students in UUM
description The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence student's behavior towards online shopping. Students are one of the target markets towards the online retailer as they have money and interest. Most of these students are not working and most of them are provided with the educational loans. However, there are circumstances that they should not involve in online shopping due to many invalid transaction such h u d and theft. This could cause them of the financial loss. There are two theories that used in this study which are Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planning Behavior. The independent variables suggests by the researcher in this study is ease of use, perceived usefulness, brand orientation and website design. To investigate these hypotheses, 350 questionnaires distributed among the undergraduate students of School of Business Management. Finally regression analysis was used on data in order to test hypothesizes of study. This study can be considered as an applied research £tom purpose perspective and descriptive-survey with regard to the nature and method (type of correlation). The study identified that all the independent variables are correlate with the dependent variable.
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spelling my-uum-etd.60042021-04-05T02:17:48Z Understanding student's online shopping behaviour: A study among undergraduate students in UUM 2016 Fatin Alia, Shahar Ishak, Khairol Anuar School of Business Management School of Business Management HF5415.33 Consumer Behavior. The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence student's behavior towards online shopping. Students are one of the target markets towards the online retailer as they have money and interest. Most of these students are not working and most of them are provided with the educational loans. However, there are circumstances that they should not involve in online shopping due to many invalid transaction such h u d and theft. This could cause them of the financial loss. There are two theories that used in this study which are Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planning Behavior. The independent variables suggests by the researcher in this study is ease of use, perceived usefulness, brand orientation and website design. To investigate these hypotheses, 350 questionnaires distributed among the undergraduate students of School of Business Management. Finally regression analysis was used on data in order to test hypothesizes of study. This study can be considered as an applied research £tom purpose perspective and descriptive-survey with regard to the nature and method (type of correlation). The study identified that all the independent variables are correlate with the dependent variable. 2016 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/6004/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/6004/1/s818220_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/6004/2/s818220_02.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Aaker, D.A. (1991). Managing brand equity: Capitalizing on the value of brand name, New York: Free Press Ajzen, I. & Fishben, M. (1980). 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