When customers come to the choice of quality, they prefer to check workmanship. If it is high and really carefully made, they think that product is reliable. Quality can be defined broadly as superiority or excellence. Quality is one of the main factors that could influence on consumer perceived values. To check the understanding of quality customer, there are lots of factors that could influence on consumer perceived value however in this thesis quality was chosen as a one of the factors. When consumers make a decision on purchasing, consumers’ perceptions of the quality of the brand would be expected to be involved. If there were no brands, consumer’s first choice could be product’s quality. Checking whether quality is influences on consumer’s perceived value here is what proposed:
Hypothesis 1: Quality
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It would also be useful to consider whether the effect could vary across relationship between independent variables and dependent variable, as suggested by some researchers (Liefeld 1993; Ahmed & d’Astous 2001, 2004). Hence, the following hypothesis is formulated for testing:
Hypothesis 4: The relationship between quality and consumer perceived value is moderated by country of origin positively.
As mentioned in the earlier hypothesis, the researcher proposed that there is a positive relationship between price and consumer perceived value. However if this relationship is moderated by COO what could be happened. Consumer’s perceived value to the product can increase or decrease. For example if there is high developed country or has a good economic, consumers have expect that from those country’s products price could be expensive and high. According to the check this hypothesis here is what the researcher proposed:
Hypothesis 5: The relationship between price and consumer perceived value is moderated by country of origin
Consumers in Western cultures, such as those from Canada, have developed consistent trends in their buying habits. The instinct of a consumer is to buy goods based on their cheap price other than anything else, such as the location in which the goods were made. Whether the goods were made by a in a local Canadian factory or by a sweatshop laborer in an underdeveloped Third World country doesn’t matter nearly as much to the consumer as the price does. This is because Canadian consumers want to save money, especially with their wages beginning to go down. What these people don’t realize, however, is that the wages going down and the low price of foreign made goods are related.
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Academic Year: 2017-2018 Contents Academic Honesty 3 Safe Assign 4 Introduction 5 Aim and Objectives 6 Methodology 6 Data Sources and Sample Size 7 Research Design 7 SWOT Analysis 7 Proposed Study Timeline 8 Conclusion and Leaning Objectives 11 References 12 Academic Honesty ACADEMIC HONESTY DECLARATION: This assignment is entirely my own work except where I have duly acknowledged other sources in the text and listed those sources at the end of the assignment. I have not previously submitted this work to the HCT. I understand that I may be orally examined on my submission. I understand that I must not attempt to gain marks dishonestly during an assessed task as this is considered cheating.
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