Record Details

Millennials’ Attitudes Toward Online Luxury Buying Behavior in South Korea: A Q-methodology Approach

Asian Business Research

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Millennials’ Attitudes Toward Online Luxury Buying Behavior in South Korea: A Q-methodology Approach
 
Creator Burnasheva, Regina
GuSuh, Yong
Villalobos-Moron, Katherine
 
Description The millennials are a crucial generational cohort of customers who buy luxury goods online. Asian luxury consumers became the major driver of global luxury sales growth. While there are a number of papers from developing countries in Asia, this study explores millennials’ attitudes toward shopping online for luxury goods from among the most world’s leading economy of South Korea.This paper has used Q methodology to examine and categorize millennials’ behavior toward online luxury consumption. The QUANAL program was employed for data collection and results revealed that there is a significant behavioral distinction between three types of shoppers such as Online Convenience Shopper, Online Economic Shopper and Traditional Shopper.The findings of this study have a managerial contribution by understanding the typology of online luxury goods consumers among Korean millennials. As one of the sizable cohorts who are purchasing luxury online, this paper could help managers to maintain and increase sales growth among millennials online. This study has also a theoretical or academic contribution by creating a new consumer type and broadening the knowledge about online luxury buying behavior.
 
Publisher July Press Pte. Ltd.
 
Contributor
 
Date 2018-11-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/abr/article/view/512
10.20849/abr.v3i3.512
 
Source Asian Business Research; Vol 3, No 3 (2018); p1
2424-8983
2424-8479
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/abr/article/view/512/386
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Regina Burnasheva, Yong GuSuh, Katherine Villalobos-Moron
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0