Research has consistently presented an increasing demand for Fair trade because of rising numbers of ethically concerned consumers. While few studies have examined Asian's purchase intention for fair trade coffee. The purpose of this study is to expla...
Research has consistently presented an increasing demand for Fair trade because of rising numbers of ethically concerned consumers. While few studies have examined Asian's purchase intention for fair trade coffee. The purpose of this study is to explain the purchase intention of consumers for fair trade coffee. This study modified the theory of planned behavior(TPB) including some variables such as ethical obligation, self-identification. Furthermore, we compared the consumer who has purchase experiences of fair trade coffee with the consumers who don't have a purchase experience of fair trade coffee toward consumer behavioral attribute.
A sample of 325 randomly selected participants was asked to complete a survey. Results of the study reveal that ethical obligation and self-identification directly impact on attitude. attitude had a significant effect on the purchase intention for fair trade coffee.
The consumer who has purchase experiences of fair trade coffee or not show differences such as gender, background which called a demographic factor. Accoding to result, 44.3% of consumers who don't have a puchase experience of fair trade coffee didn't know about fair trade, the other(19.8%) answered they found out through acquaintances or friends. Contrastly, The consumer who has purchase experiences of fair trade coffee was widely known by Starbugs and fair trade coffee stores(31.9%). This resullt implies that two groups have apparently different information resources each other. In conclusion. Marketing implications for practice can be derived from based on result of this study.