African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4193

Full Length Research Paper

A study of the factors that affect the impulsive cosmetics buying of female consumers in Kaohsiung

Feng Xuanxiaoqing1, Dong-Jenn Yang2 and Kuang Chuan Huang3
1School of journalism and Communication, Xiamen University, Room 504, Furong 12, No. 422, Siming South Road, Xiamen, Fujian, P. R. China. 2Department of Business Administration, I-Shou Univerty of Taiwan, Republic of China. 3I-Shou University, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 19 September 2011
  •  Published: 18 January 2012

Abstract

When marketing products, vendors tend to incite consumers’ intention to buy impulsively through various methods of stimulation. This fact has led to the increasing complexity of the factors which determine impulsive buying. This research analyzed the factors which determine impulsive buying, and used questionnaires and a focus group survey in order to study the factors that determine female consumers’ impulsive purchases of cosmetics.

 

Key words: Female consumers, impulsive trait, impulse buying tendency, cosmetics marketing, retailing marketing.