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Segmentation in Office Furniture MarketStudent: Wang SyanSegmentation in Office Furniture MarketStudent:Syang-Syu Wang Advisor:Dr.Ren- Hung HwangInstitute of Management ScienceNational Chial Yung UniversityABSTRACTThe peculiarity of Office Furniture Marketing is combination of 「product」and「product support service」; moreover,the Office Furniture is different from other accessory equipment in organization on account of its important relationship with the way of manufacture、management、quality of work life、even the culture shaping.To link 「Product Developing 」with「Marketing」,which means「concurrent engineering」 ,this research adopted the「Benefits Sought」factors the same as the first step of the Organization Buying Process-problem or need recognition-to segmentation base.After inquiring in what orientation the office furniture is in organization and the characteristic of office furniture marketing,this study establish the「Black-Box Concept Frame of Business Market Segmentation」based on ascertaining of the Organization Buying Behavior theory and comparison between 「Consumer Market Segmentation」 and 「Business Market Segmentation」.According to this concept frame,we chose the right descriptive variables and effect variables so as to have more comprehensive and useful understanding of the segmented market to develop further pragmatic Marketing-Mix, Through precise Factor analysis、 Cluster analysis,and other methodologies,4 market segments were identified:「inside-organization function emphasizing group」、 「space、operation efficiency emphasizing group」、「outside- organization function emphasizing group」、「fine exterior form emphasizing group」。Statistic testing,including Chi-square analysis、ANOVA variables analysis etc.,implied that the descriptive variables between the four groups are significantly different,while there are only 2 variables significantly different in effect variables.In the final conclusion and suggestion chapter,this thesis putted forward marketing strategic and tactical in view of the value-chain analysis advanced by Michal.E.Porter.Though this,the result of this study can have more powerful utilize to practical applying.
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