• DocumentCode
    2244338
  • Title

    An empirical study on farmers´ consumer intention for agriculture machinery operations demand in Shanxi province

  • Author

    Du Pu ; Bao-feng, Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Econ. & Manage., China Agric. Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-15 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1333
  • Lastpage
    1338
  • Abstract
    With questionnaire survey, the paper analyze the farmers´ consumer intention of agriculture machinery operation, provide objective recommendations for farmers´ consume behavior, scientific management inspiration for agricultural machinery owners and provide scientific guidance for government departments from the perspective of consumer psychology. On the basis of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the paper put designs a model to analyze the farmers´ consumer intention of agriculture machinery operation, through the investigated data in Shanxi Province, by adopting Logistic regression to authenticate the model. The empirical results show the key factors which influence farmers´ consumer intention of agriculture machinery operation is family income, arable land area, largest land area, cognitive component, convenience etc and different factors have different effects, while the other factors have weak influence.
  • Keywords
    agricultural machinery; consumer behaviour; Shanxi province; agriculture machinery operations demand; consume behavior; consumer intention; consumer psychology; logistic regression; planned behavior theory; scientific management inspiration; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Decision making; Educational institutions; Government; agriculture machinery operation; consumer intention; key factors; logistic regression;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • ISSN
    2155-1847
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1885-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2011.6070125
  • Filename
    6070125