Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly
Purpose: The well-being of the elderly is a growing issue of concern for countries around the world. One way to enhance the elderly well-being is to provide housing options suitable to their needs and lifestyle. Retirement village is an accommodation concept foreign to the Malaysian population. Ther...
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my.upm.eprints.874722022-03-10T08:35:06Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87472/ Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly Ng, Siew Imm Fang, Zhao Lim, Xin Jean Kamal Basha, Norazlyn Sambasivan, Murali Purpose: The well-being of the elderly is a growing issue of concern for countries around the world. One way to enhance the elderly well-being is to provide housing options suitable to their needs and lifestyle. Retirement village is an accommodation concept foreign to the Malaysian population. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to bridge this literature gap by analyzing factors that may inhibit or motivate the buying intention of a retirement village unit among the elderly in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 261 Malaysian elderly and analyzed using structural equation modeling PLS. Findings: The results indicated that attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and social sustainability were significant predictors that explained elderly buying intention of retirement village. Originality/value: The study also found a significant moderating role of religion in attitude–intention relationship. The paper concludes with the study’s implications, limitations and recommendations for future research. Emerald 2020-10-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87472/1/Retirement%20village%20buying%20intention.pdf Ng, Siew Imm and Fang, Zhao and Lim, Xin Jean and Kamal Basha, Norazlyn and Sambasivan, Murali (2020) Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 32 (7). 1451 - 1473. ISSN 1355-5855; ESSN: 1758-4248 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/APJML-05-2019-0295/full/html 10.1108/APJML-05-2019-0295 |
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Purpose: The well-being of the elderly is a growing issue of concern for countries around the world. One way to enhance the elderly well-being is to provide housing options suitable to their needs and lifestyle. Retirement village is an accommodation concept foreign to the Malaysian population. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to bridge this literature gap by analyzing factors that may inhibit or motivate the buying intention of a retirement village unit among the elderly in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 261 Malaysian elderly and analyzed using structural equation modeling PLS. Findings: The results indicated that attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and social sustainability were significant predictors that explained elderly buying intention of retirement village. Originality/value: The study also found a significant moderating role of religion in attitude–intention relationship. The paper concludes with the study’s implications, limitations and recommendations for future research. |
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Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly |
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Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly |
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Retirement village buying intention: a case study on the Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysian elderly |
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