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As the result of rapidly urban and transportation developments, the commercial space nowadays, are not restrict to perform as one simple form. Although most of the investors believed the size of the commercial space is the only key point, which influence customer’s shopping intention. According to the literature review about consumer culture, this study trying to explore the evolution of consumer culture track based on the development of social and historical background. Moreover, using the research data to indicate the relationship with origin and changing of commercial space. One of the statistics from Taiwan Shopping Centers Association (TCSC) showed that, there are at least 20 shopping centers are ready to enter the market in the next five years, which would be in the period of 2016 to 2020. In other words, the potential market of commercial space in the near future is becoming an attraction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the change of commercial space and its management direction from the perspective of consumer culture and also analyze the change of consumer shopping behavior. Firstly, according to literature review approach to confirm the definition and classify the type of the shopping center. Secondly, adopting the case study approach to analyze three individual type of shopping center in Kaohsiung, which are “Dream Mall”: the super regional type; “E-DA”: outlet mall; and theme of “Taroko Park” shopping mall. One aspect is collecting the development and its business strategies through individual interview approach of senior managers in the department stores. The issues, which are related to shopping mall’s developing background, geographical environment, theme of the space, store location, customer services etc. would be the main topics including in the interview. On the other hand, collecting and organizing the main factors which, are affecting customer’s buying intention and attitude through the approach of focus group interview with VIP customers. After that using the collected data to design a questionnaire for quantitative analyze. The results of this study would possibility provide specific recommendation in shopping mall’s business strategies and also optimize the strength of physical retail commercial space. Finding the competitive strength of shopping mall to compete with future virtual shopping channel.
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