FACTORS INFLUENCING GENERATION Y'S ONLINE PURCHASE INTENTION TOWARD XYZ ONLINE STORE IN THAILAND

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FACTORS INFLUENCING GENERATION Y’S ONLINE PURCHASE
   INTENTION TOWARD XYZ ONLINE STORE IN THAILAND
                             Tuangporn Kongprapunt1 and Nathaya Pupat2

Abstract: Electronic commerce is an essential tool and increasing growth in businesses, most
of businesses run their operations via an online. Online purchasing is a part of human life as
a providing more conveniences and efficiencies of a vendor and a consumer when people
compare to traditional purchasing. For generation Y has the high commitment in various
channels of purchasing and this generation perceived online shopping was more sage and
capable. This study aimed to determine factors influencing generation Y’s online purchase
intention toward XYZ online store in Thailand. The researcher collected 400 questionnaires,
all questionnaires were distributed in Thailand via Google form to respondents who are
intended to online purchase via XYZ online store in past 3 months and generation Y who ages
between 18-38 years old in 2018. The results of hypotheses testing showed that generation Y
considers quality, brand image, convenience, promotion and trust had a significant influence
to online purchase intention. Moreover, the result presented that trust has the strongest
significant influencing on online purchase intention. All variables are referred to XYZ Online
Store’s website including application

Keywords: Quality, Brand Image, Convenience, Promotion, Trust, Online Purchase Intention,
Online Store and Generation Y

INTRODUCTION                                                 The E-commerce landscape in
                                                     Thailand includes many businesses such as
        Internet is a powerful tool of social        online stores, logistics and payment & E-
dynamics and economic growths (Dalberg               wallet. All of them are connected to
Survey Report, 2013) and electronic                  complete the online transactions.
commerce rapidly comes up with the                           Thailand has an increasing number
increase of fresh technologies and                   of E-commerce every year. In 2017, the
modernization. Nowadays, Internet uses               value of Thai E-commerce was $2.9 billion
speedily increases the number of                     and expected growth rates will be 14.5%
information technologies and internet                per year which will impact to market value
access. In 2018, there were 7.634 billion of         to $5.8 billion in 2022 and $11.1 billion in
total population around the world and the            2025. In Thailand, the E-commerce is
internet users were 3.956 billion.                   divided into B2B, B2C, C2C and B2A.
        From previous data we can see that           However, Thailand E-commerce could not
every region continues to grow. The top              be successful, if they are no great facilities
three of retail E-commerce sales are Asia-           such as internet network, internet banks and
Pacific, China and Japan and the highest             logistics because they work and support
proportion is Asia-Pacific, Its Asia’s               each other.
estimated sales was around $1,892.07
billion in 2018 and it is growing faster than        OBJECTIVES
others.
                                                     1.To study factors influence Generation Y’s
1MBA graduate at Assumption University,              online purchase intention toward XYZ
Graduate School of Business                          Online Store
2Lecturer at Assumption University, Graduate         2.To examine the factor significant
School of Business
                                                     influencing Generation Y’s online purchase
                                                     intention toward XYZ Online Store

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3.To find the most important factor that has                 Beauchamp and Ponder (2010)
a significant influence to Generation Y’s            found the different point of convenience
online purchase intention toward XYZ                 between traditional store as an in-store and
Online Store.                                        online store, access and search convenience
                                                     were the most convenient element on
LITERATURE REVIEW                                    customers’ perception on online shopping.
                                                     Previous researchers studied that access
Quality                                              convenience referred to consumers’
        Gavin (1987) defined quality as              convenient reach to products, shopping
user-based where products meet customers’            processes and stores (Jones et al., 2000;
expectation. This study refers to customers’         Seiders et al., 2000). Rishi (2010) formed
expectation in information quality which             that convenience and accessibility were the
the information of accuracy, currency,               main factors that stimulate consumers to do
completeness and format about goods and              online purchase intention.
services on web site/application. Lee and
Shin (2014) presented that quality of                Promotion
information had a positive influence to                       Promotion is one of marketing mix
online purchase intention. While other               is an effective tool for the businesses and
quality will be service quality are as an            sellers to use to communicate and persuade
important issue that consumers expected to           their consumers to purchase the product by
receive     from      company         service        using      promotion     (Ehrman,     2011).
(SERVQUAL model). In this study, the                 Promotion is the technique that makes the
researcher focuses on responsiveness as              products more attractive by a vendor by
service quality: 24 hours/ 7 days customer           adding more special offers to buyers.
service and Frequently Asked Questions               Rojuee and Rojuee (2017) referred when
(FAQs) that the way that online stores               the business had the promotion on the
prompt responded and interacted to their             goods and services, consumers would buy
consumers. Sun et al. (2015) found that e-           in large quantities. Sun (2010) also showed
service has a significant influence to               that promotion techniques had a significant
purchase intention.                                  impact on purchase intention in online.

Brand image                                          Trust
        Brand is a specific name and                          Trust     refers     to    reliability,
commercial symbol which are connected                confidence and credibility and all are
with the meaning and characteristic of the           important elements on e-commerce (Gao et
business. Consumers could identify and               al., 2002). Brannigan and De Jager (2003)
distinguish the company name from other              stated trust online transactions referred to
rivals when the brand are associated by              trust in online vendor and trust in online
consumers’ memory (Aaker, 1991; Dobni                trade. Pan and Chiou (2011) confirmed that
and Zinkhan, 1990; Keller, 1993; Okada               when consumers purchased via online
and Reibstein, 1998). Moreover, the                  stores, trust has a significant part to online
researcher explained functional benefits,            sellers. Lee et al. (2011) stated that the high
experimental benefits and symbolic                   level of trust has a positive influence to
benefits also referred to brand (Park et             online purchase intention
al.,2010). The study of Yea (2013) also
confirmed that brand has a positive                  Online Purchase intention
significance on purchase intention.                        Hausman and Siekpe (2009) stated
                                                     that online purchase intention in E-
Convenience                                          commerce is a key element that influence to
                                                     consumers would be actual purchasing in

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the future and other researchers emphasized         information. For part 2-7, it was the
that online shopping intention played as a          question for independent variables and
significant forecast for real purchasing            dependent variable by using a 5 Point
behavior (Angela and Monika 2010, Kim               Likert scale as a research technique. Lastly,
and lennon 2013, Arun and Xavier 2013).             the part was personal information. The
Moreover, online shopping intention                 Cronbach’s alpha was conducted to test the
influenced on the demand of consumers to            reliability of questionnaires. The research
buy the goods or service via online stores.         technique that used to investigate five
The observation on online purchase                  hypotheses was Multiple Linear Regression
intention could be measured when                    (MLR).
consumers search and reach to a web site of
the company (Pavlou, 2003).                         Table 1: Summary of reliability of each variable
                                                    in research questionnaire (n=30)
RESEARCH HYPOTHESES                                                                       Cronbac
                                                        Variable        Questionnaire         h
                                                                                           Alpha
H10: Quality has no significant influence on          Quality       Shopee’s website        0.729
online purchase intention                                           and application
H1a: Quality has a significant influence on                         produce the most
online purchase intention                                           current information
H20: Brand image has no significant                                 The provided            0.788
                                                                    information by
influence on online purchase intention                              Shopee website and
H2a: Brand image has a significant                                  application is
influence on online purchase intention                              accurate
H30: Convenience has no significant                                 I think Shopee          0.714
influence on online purchase intention                              gives prompt
                                                                    services
H3a: Convenience has a significant                                  I believe the           0.748
influence on online purchase intention                              Shopee is always
H40: Promotion has no significant                                   willing to have a
influence on online purchase intention                              quick response to
H4a: Promotion has a significant influence                          customers
                                                      Brand Image If I buy                  0.735
on online purchase intention                                        products/services
H50: Trust has no significant influence on                          from online stores
online purchase intention                                           that I am familiar
H5a: Trust has a significant influence on                           with, I would prefer
online purchase intention                                           to buy from Shopee
                                                                    as Shopee is well-
                                                                    known online store
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY                                                Once I find             0.831
                                                                    products I like
        The research method is quantitative                         through Shopee
research and a convenient sampling                                  website/application
                                                                    , I slick with the
approach is applied and snowball method is
                                                                    brand
used in this research as my family, friends                         I would purchase        0.749
and      co-workers       forwarded     my                          products and
questionnaire to their friends as well. The                         services from
target population was the people who had                            Shopee as Shopee
intended to purchase on XYZ Online Store                            online store is
                                                                    attractive
in Thailand within past 3 months and aged                           Shopee online store     0.763
between 18-38 years old in 2018. The                                has a good
questionnaire consisted of 8 parts with 34                          reputation in
questions. The first part was screening                             Thailand

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Cronbac                                             Cronbac
 Variable      Questionnaire            h              Variable       Questionnaire         h
                                      Alpha                                               Alpha
Convenienc   The website and          0.849                        from Shopee, I
e            application of                                        would consider
             Shopee is always                                      purchasing this
             accessible                                            online store at the
             I prefer to              0.870                        price shown
             purchasing process                                    The high                0.795
             from Shopee online                                    probability that I
             store                                                 would consider
             I think I am able to     0.835                        purchasing Shopee
             shop efficiently                                      My willingness to       0.681
             through online                                        purchase Shopee is
             store of Shopee                                       high
             I believe I am able      0.813
             to make my
                                                    The research showed the outcome (n=30) of
             purchases
             conveniently                           the reliability test by following alpha value
             through online                         of five independent variables and the
             store of Shopee                        dependent variable. Cronbach’s alpha of
Promotion    I like to receive        0.813         quality was 0.796, brand image was 0.815,
             Shopee promotions
                                                    convenience was 0.877, promotion was
             through
             advertisement                          0.801, trust was 0.863 and online purchase
             I like to receive        0.739         intention was 0.811. In this research, the
             promotion discount                     researcher found that all of 6 variables were
             for purchasing from                    reliable and consistent and questionnaires
             Shopee                                 were valid and reliable for using to setting
             I like to receive        0.667
             privilege for special
                                                    the research hypotheses.
             items from Shopee
             promotions                             Table 2: Summary results from hypothesis test by
             I like to receive        0.786         using Multiple Regression
             privilege for                           Rank Indepe
             outdoor or travel                        from     ndent
             from Shopee                             stron      and              Level
                                                                        Coeffi           Implica
             promotion                                 gest   Depend               of
                                                                        cient               tions
Trust        What Shopee says         0.835             to       ent             Signifi
                                                                          (β)
             about its products                      weak variabl                 cant
             and services are                           est       e
             true                                                                          Trust
             I have a positive        0.823                                                  has
             attitude with                                      Trust             .000    signific
             Shopee online store                                 and                          ant
             I believe Shopee         0.814               st   online                    influenc
                                                        1
             would be reliable                                purchas                        e on
                                                      Rank               .370
             I can trust the          0.831                       e                        online
             performance of                                   intentio                   purchas
             Shopee online store                                  n                            e
             to be good                                                                   intentio
Online       After reviewing the      0.786                                                    n
purchase     Shopee                                                                      Promoti
                                                              Promoti
intention    website/application                                                           on has
                                                               on and
             , the likelihood of                                                  .000    signific
                                                               online
             purchasing Shopee                          2nd                                   ant
                                                              purchas    .176
             is high                                  Rank                               influenc
                                                                  e
             If I am going to         0.782                                                  e on
                                                              intentio
             purchase products                                                             online
                                                                  n
                                                                                         purchas

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Rank    Indepe                                        brand image, convenience, promotion and
 from     ndent                                        trust. VIF was the number between 1.008 to
 stron     and               Level
  gest   Depend
                    Coeffi
                               of
                                       Implica         1.489. And the results displayed the
                    cient               tions          variables of quality, brand Image,
   to      ent               Signifi
                     (β)                               convenience, promotion and trust were not
 weak    variabl              cant
   est      e                                          standard error for regression
                                           e           model. For Coefficient, Trust has strongest
                                       intentio
                                                       significant influence on online purchase
                                           n
                                                       intention (Beta=.370), following by
                                                       Promotion         (Beta=.176),      Quality
                                        Quality
                                          has
                                                       (Beta=.149), Convenience (Beta=.136) and
         Quality              .002     signific        Brand image has weakest significant
           and                            ant          influence on online purchase intention
          online                       influenc        (Beta=.086)
  3rd
         purchas                         e on
 Rank               .149
             e                          online
         intentio                      purchas         CONCLUSION AND
             n                             e           RECOMMENDATIONS
                                       intentio
                                           n
                                       Conveni         Conclusion
                                       ence has               The researcher concluded the
         Conveni
                              .003     signific        results by following the highest of
           ence
                                          ant          frequency and percentage. For gender is
           and
                                       influenc
  4th     online                                       67.5% or 270 respondents of female, marital
                    .136                 e on
 Rank    purchas
             e
                                        online         status which is Single status with 302
         intentio
                                       purchas         respondents (75.5%), 159 respondents who
                                           e
             n                                         age is 23-27 years old around 39.8%. In
                                       intentio
                                           n           addition, the 118 respondents have their
                                        Brand          income 20,001-30,000 Baht/Month with
                                        image
          Brand               .027        has          29.5%. Most of 122 respondents have spent
          image                        signific        approximately less than 1,000 Baht per
           and                            ant          month with 30.5%, 104 respondents (26%)
  5th     online                       influenc
                    .086                               have intended to purchase about
 Rank    purchas                         e on
             e                          online         Health&Beauty. For education level at
         intentio                      purchas         Bachelor’s Degree was 70.3% or 281
             n                             e
                                       intentio        respondents and lastly, 170 respondents
                                           n           work at Private company at 42.5%.

RESULTS        AND     DISCUSSION           OF         Table 3: Summary results of demographic
RESULTS                                                factors in term of the highest frequency and
                                                       percentage
       The research used Multiple Linear
                                                        Demogra     Characteri   Freque    Percent
Regression to test five hypotheses. In this               phic         stic      ncy )ƒ(   age )%(
study, the value of adjust R square was                  Factor
0.412 or 41.2% and the researcher could                  Gender      Female       270      67.5%
conclude that 41.2% of Generation Y’s
                                                         Marital      Single      302      75.5%
online purchase intention toward XYZ                     status
online store was influenced by quality,

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Demogra       Characteri    Freque    Percent             Rank
                                                                    Independe
   phic           stic       ncy )ƒ(   age )%(             from                   Coefficie
                                                                       nt and                 Implicatio
  Factor                                                 stronge                     nt
                                                                    Dependen                     ns
   Age         23-27 years    159       39.8%              st to                    (β)
                                                                     t variable
                   old                                    lowest
   Income        20,001-      118       29.5%                                                 Quality
                 30,000                                                                       has
                                                                    Quality
               Baht/Mont                                                                      significant
                                                           3rd      and online
                    h                                                                         influence
                                                          Rank      purchase       .149**
    Online      less than     122       30.5%                                                 on online
                                                                    intention
  shopping     1,000 Baht                                                                     purchase
   expense     Baht/Mont                                                                      intention
                    h                                                                         Convenien
                                                                    Convenien                 ce has
   Product      Health&       104        26%                  th    ce and                    significant
                                                            4
 category in    Beauty                                              online         .136**     influence
                                                          Rank
    online                                                          purchase                  on online
  shopping                                                          intention                 purchase
  intention                                                                                   intention
                                                                                              Brand
 Education     Bachelor’s     281       70.3%                       Brand                     image has
   level        Degree                                        th    image and                 significant
                                                            5
                                                                    online          .086*     influence
                                                          Rank
                                                                    purchase                  on online
 Occupatio      Private       170       42.5%                       intention                 purchase
    n          company                                                                        intention
               employee                                 Notes: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; *** p< 0.001

                                                        Recommendation
                                                                The researcher would recommend
The result of five hypotheses testing by                XYZ managers to concentrated on all of
using Multiple Linear Regression analysis               variables to build and stimulate the online
showed that Trust was the strongest                     purchase intention toward XYZ in the near
significant influence factor and following              future. Trust was the key factor that the
by Promotion, Quality, Convenience and                  respondents concern with online purchase
Brand Image, respectively.                              intention then XYZ manager needs to
Table 4: The strength of influence between              develop trust by keeping what about XYZ
independent variables and dependent variable            announces to customers. All of XYZ
using Multiple Linear Regression                        purchased processes should be made the
    Rank                                                confidence for customers such as customer
           Independe
    from                  Coefficie                     information, payment and the way to
              nt and                 Implicatio
  stronge                    nt
    st to
            Dependen
                             (β)
                                          ns            receive the products because when
            t variable                                  consumers have more positive attitude and
   lowest
                                     Trust has          relationship with XYZ and after that more
           Trust and                 significant        trust could be occurred. Promotion was the
           online                    influence          second influence factor then XYZ should
  1st Rank                .370***
           purchase                  on online
           intention                 purchase
                                                        concern about more advertising of online
                                     intention          and offline channels and offer the
                                     Promotion          marketing campaign about sales promotion.
           Promotion
                                     has                Quality was the third influence factor then
        nd                           significant        XYZ manger should provide more updated
      2    and online
                                     influence
    Rank   purchase       .176***                       and clear information of goods and prices
                                     on online
           intention                                    to customers. Convenience is the fourth
                                     purchase
                                     intention          influence factor then XYZ manger should
                                                        develop and improve to Convenience by
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setting more reliable and available system           Aaker, 1991; Yoo et al., 2000. Factors
for the purchased processes and making                   Affecting Purchase Intention of Online
XYZ website and application work 24                      Game Prepayment Card-Evidence
hours per a day and 7 days per a week as the             from Thailand, Journal of Internet
standard of online store. Brand Image is the             Banking and Commerce, 18(3),
fifth influence factor then the XYZ                      December 2013.
manager should build XYZ brand to be
well-known and good reputation by                    Aghekyan-Simonian et al. (2012). Effects
keeping the standard quality, meeting                   of customer brand perceptions on store
customer requirement and more promoting                 image and purchase intention: An
the brand as XYZ is the new online store in             application in apparel clothing.
Thailand.                                               Procedia - Social and Behavioral
                                                        Sciences 207 (2015), 196 – 205.
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researcher focused on people who age 18-             Akinwande et al. (2015). Variance Inflation
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