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European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies ISSN: 2501 - 9988 ISSN-L: 2501 - 9988 Available on-line at: http://www.oapub.org/soc Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.997315 ANTECEDENTS OF CONSUMERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS ONLINE ADVERTISING IN MALAYSIA: THE STRUCTURE EQUATION MODELING APPROACH Foong Chee Haur1i Ali Khatibi2 S. M. Ferdous Azam3 Marketing Practitioner and Phd Scholar, Graduate School of Management, 1 Management & Science University, Malaysia Professor, Graduate School of Management, 2 Management & Science University, Malaysia PhD, Graduate School of Management, 3 Management & Science University, Malaysia Abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the antecedents of consumers’ perception towards online advertising in Malaysia. This research has been developed a framework by reviewing the existing literatures available in the same field. Altogether 526 respondents have been selected as a final sample size. This research uses survey method in this study because my purpose of the study is to generalize the findings from the sample to population. The current study used Statistical Software Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and AMOS Software Package to analyse the data. The results of this study provide evidence that increased consumer perception is associated with increased online advertising. There is a direct positive, significant relationship between consumer perception and online advertising of the respondents in the online advertising in Malaysia. It was also found that all sub dimensions of consumer perception positively and significantly affect to online advertising and its dimensions. Besides, the results indicated the significant positive relationships between consumer perception and consumer acceptance. On the other hand, a significant weak relationship was found between consumer acceptance and online advertising. However, the consumer satisfaction has not correlated significantly with online advertising of the respondents Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 15 Foong Chee Haur, Ali Khatibi, S. M. Ferdous Azam ANTECEDENTS OF CONSUMERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS ONLINE ADVERTISING IN MALAYSIA: THE STRUCTURE EQUATION MODELING APPROACH in the online advertising in Malaysia. Future studies can be extended to check the applicability and relevance of consumer perception within Malaysia using different samples from different sectors, occupations and so on. Keywords: antecedents, consumer perception, online advertising, consumer acceptance, consumer satisfaction, Malaysia 1. Introduction Malaysian consumers are heading towards technology era. More and more people in Malaysia are using Internet as the centre of information. Advertisers utilize advertising appeals as a means for buying and selling their products (Khare, 2015; Fung, 2017). Advertising appeals are designed in a way to present a positive image of the product or service to the customer using that product or service. The message transferred through advertising appeals has an influence on purchasing decisions. People purchase a product when they feel comfortable and confident with their shopping and rationalize their purchasing decisions based on facts while making decisions based on feelings. Integration between online advertising and traditional advertising will be an important medium in this new era. In fact, before the electronic media, the core advertisement tool was human advertising and personal selling. Meanwhile, technology keeps on going. It is already gives us the personal computer, the cellular phone, the Internet and the modern electronic communication system where these facilities are simple enough for virtually anybody to use (Fernando et al., 2016). In marketing perspective, consumers are always exposed by thousands of commercial messages every day. As part of this changing form of business, evidence is emerging about the way individual now use media and are exposed to commercial messages, especially for consumer goods (Belch and Belch, 2013; Ekta et al., 2017). Traditional approaches have led marketers to use click-stream interactions as a measure of the online media effectiveness, which links the advertising to immediate consumer action. However, click-through rates do not capture the impact the exposure of the advertisement has on the consumer’s disposition towards the brand and subsequent purchase decision at the offline point of sale (Fernando et al., 2016). Besides, previous literature (Khare, 2015; Newton, 2015; Fung, 2017) had proven that online advertisement and e-marketing have become more significant as compared to the conventional or traditional marketing. The high utilization of internet has given a great opportunity for companies to market their products through e-marketing. As the property market now is being dominated by the European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies - Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017 16 Foong Chee Haur, Ali Khatibi, S. M. Ferdous Azam ANTECEDENTS OF CONSUMERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS ONLINE ADVERTISING IN MALAYSIA: THE STRUCTURE EQUATION MODELING APPROACH modern consumers and they are more receptive to internet, it is vital to study if emarketing is more significant and highly acceptable in property products as compared to the traditional marketing. Therefore, it is vital for this study to explore the antecedents of consumers’ perception towards online advertising in Malaysia. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJMMS/article/view/205 European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies - Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017 17