Journal of Innovation, Business and Entrepreneurship
Vol 4, No 2 (2019)

An examination of plus-size people’s clothes purchasing preferences in e-commerce

Aulia, Muhammad Rizki (School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Dellyana, Dina (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2020

Abstract

Globalization has had a major impact on digital business in the past 20 years,the ease of online transactions is also felt by Indonesians affected by obesity, which reached 19.6% in 2013, this of course has an impact also on the people who categorized as Plus-size. Based on the Asia-Pacific standard for obesity, a person is said to be plus size when the waist circumference exceeds 90 inches for men and 80 inches for women.Clothing products are considered high risk items, therefore various companies are willing to promote their products to facilitate customers. This study aims to analyze of the preferences of plus size people in the transaction of clothing through e-commerce, a sample of 122 people was used in this study to measure dominant preferences in each of the factors, further researchers use quantitative analysis to validate data to respondents. The method used in this study is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) because the researcher wants to know what factors most influence their preferences in shopping online using ExpertChoiceTM software. Based on the results of the study, researchers want to provide insight in the form of factors that influence consumer preferences.Keywords: AHP, customer preference, e-commerce, pairwise comparison, plus-size people

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JIBE

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management

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Journal of Innovation, Business and Entrepreneurship is intended to be an effective channel of communications and knowledge sharing among various types of stakeholder interested in the study of innovation, business and entrepreneurship, both from a theoretical and practical perspective. While ...