Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car

Malaysia is one of the Asian countries that triumph in producing national car with an outstanding achievements in automotive industry. Nowadays, Proton and Perodua are the famous Malaysian car brands among its citizens, where Perodua become the top of the list. Malaysian citizens appreciate and supp...

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Main Authors: Che Aniza Che Wel, Syed Shah Alam, Nor Rahimy Khalid, Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20177/
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author Che Aniza Che Wel,
Syed Shah Alam,
Nor Rahimy Khalid,
Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin,
author_facet Che Aniza Che Wel,
Syed Shah Alam,
Nor Rahimy Khalid,
Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin,
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description Malaysia is one of the Asian countries that triumph in producing national car with an outstanding achievements in automotive industry. Nowadays, Proton and Perodua are the famous Malaysian car brands among its citizens, where Perodua become the top of the list. Malaysian citizens appreciate and support Malaysian brand to demonstrate their ethnocentrism and patriotism. Therefore, it is inspiring to comprehend consumer buying intention, towards Malaysian national car. Thus, this study is intended to examine consumer’s buying intention of Malaysian national car by examining their ethnocentrism and patriotism by utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior. This study was conducted in Klang Valley covering respondents from various occupational levels. The finding of this study indicates that, patriotism, attitude and subjective norm affect consumer buying intention toward Malaysian national car. Therefore, this finding provides evidence to the Malaysian car provider upon the degree of ethnocentrism and patriotism in influencing Malaysian consumer’s buying intention.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:201772022-10-21T03:29:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20177/ Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car Che Aniza Che Wel, Syed Shah Alam, Nor Rahimy Khalid, Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin, Malaysia is one of the Asian countries that triumph in producing national car with an outstanding achievements in automotive industry. Nowadays, Proton and Perodua are the famous Malaysian car brands among its citizens, where Perodua become the top of the list. Malaysian citizens appreciate and support Malaysian brand to demonstrate their ethnocentrism and patriotism. Therefore, it is inspiring to comprehend consumer buying intention, towards Malaysian national car. Thus, this study is intended to examine consumer’s buying intention of Malaysian national car by examining their ethnocentrism and patriotism by utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior. This study was conducted in Klang Valley covering respondents from various occupational levels. The finding of this study indicates that, patriotism, attitude and subjective norm affect consumer buying intention toward Malaysian national car. Therefore, this finding provides evidence to the Malaysian car provider upon the degree of ethnocentrism and patriotism in influencing Malaysian consumer’s buying intention. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20177/1/26177-88586-1-PB.pdf Che Aniza Che Wel, and Syed Shah Alam, and Nor Rahimy Khalid, and Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin, (2018) Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car. Jurnal Pengurusan, 52 . pp. 169-179. ISSN 0127-2713 https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/1093
spellingShingle Che Aniza Che Wel,
Syed Shah Alam,
Nor Rahimy Khalid,
Suraya Akmar Mokhtaruddin,
Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title_full Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title_fullStr Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title_full_unstemmed Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title_short Effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of Malaysian national car
title_sort effect of ethnocentrism and patriotism on the buying intention of malaysian national car
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20177/
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http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20177/1/26177-88586-1-PB.pdf