“Membangun Keunggulan Bersaing Melalui Customer Value” (Studi Kasus Pada Pasar Semawis Semarang)

Abstract

This study aims to determine how much influence the diversity of product, location, and price to customer perception of value that can influence competitive advantage in the marketplace. The population used in this study are the consumers who have or are visiting the markets in Chinatown Semawis Semarang. Samples in this study were 80 respondents and the techniques used are non-probability sampling technique with Accidental Sampling approach. The data that meet the test validity, test reliability and test classic assumptions that form a regression equation. The independent variable of this study include the diversity of product, location, and price perception. Competitive advantage of the dependent variable and the customer value as an intervening variable. Hypothesis testing using t-test showed that the three independent variables studied are variable product diversity, location, and perceptions about the price proved positive and significant impact on customer value and intervening variables are also positively affect the dependent variable, namely its competitive advantage. Then through the F test can be seen that the four independent variables is feasible to test the dependet variable purchase decision. Figures Adjusted R Square Model 1 shows that 50.9% competitive customer value can be explained by the three independent variables in the regression equation. While the remaining 49.1% is explained by other variables outside of the three variables used in this study. Then the value of Adjusted R Square in Model 2 is equal to 0.504, which means that the ability of customer value in the variable explains the attitude towards competitive advantage is 50.4%, so there is still the remaining 49.6% did not require any other mediating studied