The aim of our study was to identify the factors that influence the Swedish consumer to
purchase handicrafts product that is represented by our research question - “What are the
determinant factors that influence their decision to purchase handicrafts product?”. As the
research is designed for the exploratory purpose so the idea has been generated and
followed by hypothesis and ended up with the result from the primary data. So, from the
result of our study it is clear that each of the hypothesized factors have influences on
making consumers decision about purchasing handicrafts which has its own interpretation.
The summary of the interpretation of the result of our three hypothesis shows that our
research question is answered.
From our study we explored that friends and family have the highest influences on their
decision making while Swedish customers purchase any hand made products,. The product
appearance also has an impact on their decision making but compare with the friends and
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family influences product appearance has lower impact. In addition, we have discovered
that Swedish people buy hand-made product to show up their social status too. These three
influential factors are described and supported by three key elements of theory of planed
behavior. First of all, normative belief shows that Swedish customers are motivated by the
social pressures from important social groups. Secondly, behavioral believe explains that
they are also motivated by the outlook and the quality of handmade crafts. Last but not the
least, Swedish handicraft customers judgment about their social level is described by the
control belief too.
From the correlation analysis it has been proved that among the three factors the friends
and family has the highest relation with the purchase decision (action); appearances of the
product has the second highest and showing status has third highest relation. Although
showing status has the lowest correlation, ANOVA analysis presents that there are
significant differences within some income groups regarding showing status.