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Abstracts The first Cooperative Enterprise, or such like, of Taiwan was founded as a result of the 1913 “The Taiwan Industrial Cooperative Act” in 1913 established during the Japanese Occupation era. The Act covered issues, to certain degree, related to four types of cooperatives, including: Land Affairs, Business Union, Industry, and Health Insurance. Similarly the ROC government announced its own version of “The Cooperative Law” as early as on March 1st, 1934, dividing This law divided cooperatives into five categories, which were: Agriculture, Industry, Consumption, Finance, and Insurance. It’s It is only obvious to note that the history of cooperatives in Taiwan goes way further back, and cooperatives affect every aspect of people’s lives. have everything to do with living in all aspects. The development trend for in today’s cooperative enterprises of Taiwan has appeared appears to be dynamic due to the tireless effort of corresponding Taiwan government units and the with social and economics change changes. New types of cooperatives like such as Taxi Transportation, Resource Recycling, Labor, Market Utilization, or as odd as and even odd ones like Travel Arrangement, or and Electronic Books have found its their ways to surface one by one while the traditional Consumption type cooperatives faced harsh challenges due to the increase of per capita income, the change of people’s consumption philosophy, the different kind of competition they had to cope with, and the alteration of government policies. This investigation started starts with an attempt to understand the nature and facts about the consumption type cooperatives. It The study then went on continues on to the exploration of the government policy policies and the key keys to survive and development. Last but not least, this investigation tried tries to recuperate the core values of the consumption type cooperatives., tried to help by serving First the study serves as an important reference to the reengineering of the business process and the setting of business objectives for consumption type cooperatives to so that they may overcome the difficult situations they are facing., and a Second, the study also serves as reference to the corresponding government units as well for the forming of new auxiliary policies. Through it’s a systematic approach, this investigation anticipated anticipates to turn the crisis to into an opportunity. This investigation first constructed an interactive model between the consumer and the cooperatives after having conducted interviews with a number of cooperative managers and a thorough study on related papers published worldwide. A questionnaire was designed based on the consumer satisfaction theory, and a survey was then conducted using stratified random sampling. There were 1,308 valid responses out of the 1,500 questionnaires issued to shoppers at 6 shopping stores that belong to five public servant operated consumer cooperatives in central Taiwan. The distribution of the Statistical Variables of the basic consumer information was demonstrated in diagrams with the help of the Descriptive Statistics technique after a Reliability and Validity check were conducted. Then a cross analysis of the variables and the ANOVA analysis of variance were carried out to determine the difference of the Statistical Variables of for the basic consumer information in the following 5 aspects: Convenience, Facilities and Atmosphere, Products, Service Quality, and Enterprise Image. Finally, a stepwise regression process was taken to discover the used in determining a major influential aspect for of the consumer satisfaction degree of for the cooperatives. A summary of the findings are listed below: 1. 71.1% of the respondents are under 40 years of age; 82.8% have either a high school diploma or a college degree; 30.7% live in the neighborhood of the shopping place; 33.8% are members or members'' relatives; 56.7% of the respondents go shopping irregularly; 81.0% spent less than 2,000 NT each time; 76.7% spent less than 30 minutes each time; 69.6% do not know whether the cooperatives they shopped at ever contributed anything to their neighborhood; 33.3% of the respondents have been constantly shopping there for 5 years or more. 2. Irregular, small amount, and speed shopping are the most commonly observed shopping behaviors at a consumption type cooperative. 67.6% of the respondents spent less than 1,000 NT and less than 30 minutes each time. 3. Respondents who lives in the neighborhood or is a are members member or a member'' s member relative has have a better chance to be found “loyal”, or having a history of shopping there for 5 years or more. 4. The differences are distinguished on the 5 aspects (Convenience, Facilities and Atmosphere, Products, Service Quality, and Enterprise Image) when while the following parameters vary: the revenue reported, profit distributed to members, contributions to local community, total spending per year, and shopping frequency. 5.The results of a stepwise regression process and a linear regression process have shown that the Enterprise Image and the Service Quality are the most influential aspects for the consumer satisfaction degree of the cooperatives.
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