The Impact of Motivation on Collaborative Consumption Through
Behavioral Intention in Taiwan
Endyastuti Pravitasari¹ and Shui-Shun Lin²
¹Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Jakarta, 14350, Indonesia
²National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, 41170, Taiwan
Keywords: Collaborative Consumption, Consumer’s Behavior, Motivation.
Abstract: Collaborative consumption has emerged as a phenomenon widely described by academic literature to promote
more sustainable consumption practices such as sharing over ownership, peer-to-peer lending, and renting.
The aim of this study is to analyze the motivational factors of collaborative consumption in the era of the
sharing economy, as a part of planned behavior with attitude as a moderating variable of Taiwan customers.
The hypothesis tested with a simple random sampling technic with the total number of 203 Taiwanese. The
finding indicates that Taiwan customers really pay attention to the impact of sustainability in the way they
examine collaborative consumption products. A gap between attitude and behavioral intention also appeared
in this research.
1 INTRODUCTION
The development of information and communication
technology changes human behavior in all fields.
Openness makes boundaries between countries in the
digital age subtler. Changes are also reflected in the
consumption patterns of people around the world.
The emergence of online-based services is
penetrating rapidly and forming new opportunities for
entrepreneurs to work together with digital platforms
to market their products. From the consumer's point
of view, this collaboration is also very interesting and
beneficial when viewed in terms of effectiveness and
efficiency.
Collaborative consumption is a form of
consumption developed on the premise of peer-to-
peer exchange to provide lending, trading, renting,
gifting, bartering, swapping, and sharing of services
and goods without owning the product (Botsman &
Rogers, 2010). Instead of paying the full amount to
own a product that is later unused, people can share
ownership of a product, both goods and services by
paying a small amount of money. This not only saves
costs for consumers but also helps the economy and
the environment.
An alternative product for consumers,
collaborative consumption, also known as the sharing
economy, is a peer-to-peer business model that
involves actions to gain, donate, or share access to
products and services. These actions are organized
through community-based online platforms. Sharing,
which may become commonplace between friends
and family, is expanded to the surrounding
community. In recent years, disruptive new business
model developed by entrepreneurs to reach the
community and popularized as collaborative
consumption (CC). This model is based on the very
foundation of resource sharing and allows people to
access a resource without having to own them within
a short period (Gansky, 2010).
Existing companies can use collaborative
networks to provide products in the form of goods or
services to consumers. At the same time, companies
must provide peer-to-peer sharing for consumers to
used. According to Matzler, Veider, & Kathan
(2015), traditionally, consumers will consider about
to own a product when they wish to use it. In addition,
currently the number of consumers, who are willing
to pay to enjoy temporarily access the product is
increasing, compared to buying or owning it.
The development of an online platform that
promotes user-generated content, sharing, and
collaboration has also developed the information and
technology of web 2.0 (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010).
Common examples of this involve peer-to-peer file
sharing, collaborative online encyclopedias such
Wikipedia, open-source software repositories such as
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Github, and other content-sharing websites like
Youtube (e.g., The Pirate Bay). Recent examples
include peer-to-peer financings like microloans (like
those offered by Kiva) and crowdfunding services
(e.g., Kickstarter). The sharing economy, which we
refer to as a phenomenon, is exemplified by these four
examples: open-source software, online
collaboration, file sharing, and peer-to-peer lending.
Thus, the sharing economy situation is the result of a
series of technology advancements that have made it
easier to share both tangible and intangible goods and
services online due to the accessibility of many
informational platforms. Information technology is
the fundamental lens through which to examine the
"sharing economy".
Open-source, online collaboration, file sharing,
and peer-to-peer funding are some examples of the
sharing economy that, despite their outward
differences, have a number of things in common. To
start, they are all products of Silicon Valley's tech-
driven culture and have grown out of it. This is simply
attributable to open source software and file-sharing
websites. Sacks (2011) asserts that Silicon Valley's
tech-driven culture is also in which the first, biggest,
and most prosperous CC services have developed in
recent years. More significantly, as will be addressed
in the section on the elements of the sharing economy,
the numerous examples of the sharing economy also
share the traits of online cooperation, online sharing,
social commerce, and some type of underlying
ideology, such as collective purpose or common
good. You can also attribute CC services with all of
these qualities.
According to earlier research (Bray, Johns, &
Kilburn, 2011; Eckhardt, Belk, & Devinney, 2010),
people are deterred from ethical consumption by
institutional and financial factors. However, as new
forms of consumption through the sharing economy
have emerged, such as collaborative consumption
(CC), these problems are being addressed and may
one day be resolved. A developing economic and
technological phenomenon known as the sharing
economy is propelled by advances in information and
communications technology (ICT), rising consumer
awareness, the growth of collaborative web
communities, and social commerce and sharing
(Botsman & Rogers, 2010; Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010;
Wang & Zhang, 2012). We perceive the sharing
economy as a comprehensive term that includes
various ICT advancements and technologies, like CC,
which encourages sharing consumption.
The development and consumption of locally and
communally based products has been observed as a
result of increased public awareness of life
sustainability (Albinsson & Perera, 2012; Belk, 2010;
Botsman & Rogers, 2010; Hamari, Sjöklint, &
Ukkonen, 2016).
2 LITERATUR REVIEW
Collaborative consumption (CC) allows consumers to
fully utilize excess or idle resources, and to access
resources without necessarily purchasing or owning
them. There are several issues about CC in Taiwan.
2.1 Collaborative Consumption in
Taiwan
Taipei government imposes a ban on Uber to operate.
Thus, Uber’s refusal in Taipei by the local
Government and taxi drivers is based on a “cultural
misunderstanding” so it is seen that Uber is an illegal
transport service company (Fulco et al., 2016).
Table 1: 1 Sharing Economy in Taiwan.
*Conversion rate = usage rate/knowledge rate
Source: InsightXplorer (2018)
However, data collected by the 1935 multiple
selection questions. In total 85% heard about the
sharing economy and 55.3% know about it. In Taiwan,
four popular products for the sharing economy are
related with transportation, services, goods, and space
(InsightXplorer, 2018). Transportation services in
particular Uber have a high conversion rate from
awareness and usage numbers. From the table below,
the items of interest to users based in industries are
transportation for 54.6%, services for 46.5%, goods
for 42.4%, and space for 30.4% in total 1935
respondents.
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Table 2: 2 Item of interest to users (n=1935).
Produc
t
Percenta
g
e
Transportation 54.6%
Services 46.5%
Goods 42.4%
Space 30.4%
Source: InsightXplorer (2018)
2.2 Motivation as Driving Factors of
Collaborative Consumption
Interactions in economic sharing may operate in
social norms (communal relationships when both
parties weigh benefits and risks. According to Aruan
and Felicia (2019), social norms are concerned with
motivation for the desire to participate. Uysal and
Jurowski (1994) defined motivation as
psychological/biological needs and desires
considered as key factors that make people behave
concerning their activities. It was found that there is a
close relationship between tourism, human beings,
and human nature. Therefore, there is a need to
conduct an insightful investigation to know the reason
why people prefer to travel, and what they would like
to enjoy. The concept of motivation is studied in
different fields of research to interpret its phenomena
and characteristics. The features of motivation as the
primary forces behind collaborative consumption—
safety, social acceptance, stimulation, ethics, quality,
value for money, comfort, and sustainability—are
examined in more detail in the section that follows.
1. Safety
Safety concerns are related to seeking harmony
and stability (Bardi & Schwartz, 2003), realizing
life’s limitations, being conventional, and being
private (Chulef, Read & Walsh, 2001), as well as
avoidance of risks and dangers. In a consumption
setting, this may entail attention to information
regarding health issues, side-effects of
consumption, potential risks, warranties, and
insurances, as well as preferences for products
that have been well-tested and shown to conform
safety standards. Safety is important in many
consumer settings (Becker, 1973; Rindfleisch &
Burroughs, 2004). The Safety dimension was
shown related to insurances, safety, and unrest.
Define sharing commerce, while information
quality and transaction safety are chosen to
capture the technical attribute of the sharing
commerce system itself (Kong et al., 2019).
Maintaining a secure transaction system online is
more difficult than offline, users required a high
level of transaction safety and privacy which
associated with the transaction. The motivational
goals from safety are to improve or secure one’s
future well-being, feeling calm and safe
(Barbopoulos & Johansson, 2017).
2. Social acceptance
The former entails making a good impression,
fitting in, and conforming to expectations,
whereas the latter entails a focus on moral
principles and avoiding immoral or wrong
(Barbopoulos & Johansson, 2017). Social
Acceptance was shown to be related to consumer
susceptibility to interpersonal influences, for
example, asking friends for recommendations and
choosing better online services. For social
acceptance, the normative dimension in the
consumer susceptibility to interpersonal
influences (CSII) scale as reported by Bearden,
Netemeyer, & Teel (1989) was chosen as
reference. This dimension contains items
regarding social belonging and conformity to
social norms, which makes it similar to the social
acceptance dimension, with items regarding the
expectations of friends and similar others, as well
as gaining a sense of belonging.
3. Stimulation
Based on Keiler (1959), stimulation related to
triggered initial effort or measuring an existing
action. It also means to get something exciting,
stimulating, or unique, avoiding dullness
(Barbopoulos & Johansson, 2017). Consumers
motivated by the former seek to increase their
well-being, utilizing stimulation and excitement,
whereas consumers motivated by the latter seek to
increase their well-being by employing
convenience, comfort, and avoidance of effort.
4. Ethics
The Ethics dimension was related to the
universalism value type (Schwartz, 1992). It is
also related to the search for information
regarding environmental impacts and pro-
environmental travel alternatives. Based on
Barbopoulos & Johansson (2017), the motives of
ethics are to act according to moral, principles,
obligations, and avoiding guilt. The Ethics
dimension is similar to its focus on moral
righteousness.
5. Quality
The quality dimension represents the utility
derived from the perceived quality and expected
performances of the product (Sweeney & Soutar,
2001) which corresponding well with the quality
dimension. It also concerned to attaining goods of
high quality and reliability.
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6. Value for money
The consumer perceived value (PERVAL)
dimensions which price and quality (Sweeney &
Soutar, 2001) were chosen as reference scales for
the value for money and quality dimensions. The
price dimension represents "the utility derived
from the product due to the reduction of its
perceived short term and long term costs" which
is similar to our value for money dimension, with
focus on paying a reasonable price and avoiding
wasting money.
7. Comfort
Comfort dimensions get something pleasant and
comfortable, avoid hassle and discomfort
(Barbopoulos & Johansson, 2017). Customers are
initially thrilled and eager to increase their well-
being, and after sensing that their well-being will
alter through ease, comfort, and the avoidance of
effort, they are becoming more motivated. Having
a high level of comfort within a product not only
give a sense of trust to the provider, but can also
reduce anxiety and increase consumer self-esteem
(Gaur & Xu, 2009).
8. Sustainability
Participation in CC is typically anticipated to be
extremely environmentally sustainable (Prothero
et al., 2011; Sacks, 2011). Such motives are
typically connected to ideology and norms
(Lindenberg, 2001), which are viewed as intrinsic
motivations in our theoretical framework and in
similar work (Lakhani & Wolf, 2005; Nov,
Naaman, & Ye, 2010). According to recent
advances, CC platforms are being used to promote
a sustainable market that "optimizes the
environmental, social, and economic
repercussions of consumption in order to meet the
requirements of both current and future
generations" (Phipps et al., 2013; Luchs et al.,
2011). Additionally, Nov (2007) as well as Oreg
and Nov claim that the creation of open-source
software and involvement in peer production
(such as Wikipedia) are motivated by altruistic
principles like transparency and freedom of
knowledge (2008).
Thus, participation and collaboration in digital
platforms may be influenced by attitudes sculpted by
ideology and socioeconomic concerns, such as anti-
establishment feelings or a preference for greener
consuming, which humans believe to be a notably
crucial factor in the setting of CC (Hennig-Thurau,
Henning, & Sattler, 2007). The innate drive to uphold
standards is therefore operationalized as ecological
sustainability (Hu et al, 2019).
2.3 Attitude
Attitude to be a key influence on behavior is attitude
(Ajzen, 1991). It reflects the user's evaluation of the
technology (Pietro & Pantano, 2012) Additionally,
there is cause to believe that attitudes and conduct
may differ when examining a phenomenon. It is
imperative to measure them independently. Although
customers may have strong moral and intellectual
convictions, their intentions may not always translate
into sustainable behavior (Bray, Kilburn, & Johns,
2011; Phipps et al., 2013; Vermeir & Verbeke, 2006).
A few issues might explain this attitude-behavior
gap: (a) pursuing sustainable behavior can be costly
both in terms of coordination and direct cost, (b)
people lack the means of deriving benefits from
signaling such behavior and thus not able to gain
recognition from the behavior. For instance, studies
show that people are motivated to take on sustainable
behavior especially when other consumers have been
able to signal that they are also participating
(Goldstein, Cialdini, & Griskevicius, 2008). (c) There
is not enough information for consumers about
sustainable consumption. They may enable to get
more efficient coordination for sharing activities,
which in turn aids in the facilitation of active
communities around a cause.
However, it is still unclear whether or not people's
attitudes toward CC are influenced by, for instance,
green values, and if so, whether or not they also
represent their actual conduct. Or does this situation
also reflect the attitude-behavior gap? We look into
the connection between attitudes and behaviors in
order to address this problem as well as other
predictions.
2.4 Behavioral Intention
Behavioral intention represents the degree to which
the user is willing to perform a certain behavior
(Pietro & Pantano, 2012). According to Marzuki,
Hashemi, and Kiumarsi (2017), behavioral intention
can be simply defined as a person's willingness to
work hard and level of resolve in order to carry out an
action. Behavioral intention (BI) refers to “a person’s
subjective probability that he will perform some
behavior” (Hill, Fishbein, & Ajzen, 1977).
3 METHODS
A deductive method with qualitative tools was used
in this research.
1. Pretesting survey
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A pretesting survey was used to test the
understandability and appropriateness of the
questions planned to be included in a regular
survey (Sekaran & Bougie, 2016) using 30
respondents.
2. Descriptive analysis
A descriptive study for a single variable is to
obtain data that describes the topic of interest
provided by frequencies, measures of central
tendency, and dispersion (Sekaran & Bougie,
2016). Demographic data, for example, gender,
age, occupation, and marital status were used in
this research. The use of mean also important to
measures the central tendency. For the measures
of dispersion of interval scale, standard deviation,
and variance used in this research.
3. Outer Model Assessment
a. Construct Validity
Validity deals with the soundness of accuracy
of a measure or the extent to which a score
truthfully represents a concept (Janadari,
Ramalu, & Wei, 2018). Convergent validity is
the extent to which a measure correlates
positively with an alternative measure of the
same construct based on the average variance
extracted (AVE) and item loadings.
Discriminant Validity relates to the
uniqueness of a construct, whether the
phenomenon captured by a construct and not
represented by other constructs in the model
(Hair et al., 2013; Janadari, Ramalu, & Wei,
2018). It can be evaluated by assessing the
cross-loadings among constructs, by using the
Fornel-Larcker criterion and Heterotrait-
Monotrait Ratio of correlation (HTMT).
b. Composite reliability
Composite reliability concerns with individual
reliability that referring to different outer-
loadings of the indicator variables (Hair et al.,
2017).
4. Structural Model (Inner Model) Assessment
The structural model is used to illustrate one or
more dependence relationships liking the
hypothesized model’s construct. Model
assessment by Hair et al., (2014) are assessed
structural model for collinearity issue, the path
coefficient, the level of R2, and the predictive
relevance (Q2).
a. R2
R-square is used to assess the predictive power
of a particular model or construct and the
determination of the standard path coefficient
of each relationship between exogenous and
endogenous variables.
b. Path coefficient
The bootstrapping technique is used for
examining the significance of all the path
coefficients (Chin, 2010). In order to assess
the direct effects of all associations that have
been postulated and statistically tested,
bootstrapping technique is performed. The
path coefficients are estimated using t-
statistics using the same methodology.
c. The predictive relevance (Q2)
The Q2 of the model which was conducted to
assess the predictive capacity of the model
through the Stone-Geisser's non-parametric
test (Blindfolding).
4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Majority of respondents whom 57.6% were young
adult in the age group less than 24 years old, 27.6%
in the age group of 25 until 39 years old, and 14.8%
respondents for 40 until 55 years old. From these data
we can say that young people make up the largest
percentage of respondents and will continue to
decline according to age criteria. This is in
accordance with the opinion of Lawson (2010) which
states that millennials have a strong desire to
participate in collaborative consumption. This
outcome is anticipated given how well-versed they
are in technology.
From the category of education, majority of
Taiwan respondents, 56.7% were
diploma/undergraduate students, 31.5% respondents
were graduate/post graduate students, and 11.8% of
the respondents were school students. In line with
their status, most of respondents were single.
Furthermore, over half (61%) of those who responded
from Taiwan were students, 35% of respondents were
private employees, 3% of respondents were civil
servants, and 4% were entrepreneur.
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4.1 Outer Model Assessment
Source: Smart-PLS Output
Figure 1.1: Construct Model.
4.2 Validity and Reliability
Table 1.3: Item Loadings.
Variable Indicator Item
Loadin
g
Safety SY1 0.823 Valid
SY2 0.782 Valid
SY3 0.851 Valid
SY4 0.755 Valid
Social
acceptance
SA1 0.808 Valid
SA2 0.864 Valid
SA3 0.865 Valid
SA4 0.830 Valid
SA5 0.850 Valid
Stimulation SN1 0.807 Valid
SN2 0.873 Valid
SN3 0.894 Valid
Ethics ES1 0.858 Valid
ES2 0.927 Valid
ES3 0.905 Valid
Quality QY1 0.785 Valid
QY2 0.873 Valid
QY3 0.882 Valid
QY4 0.808 Valid
Value for
money
VFM1 0.785 Valid
VFM2 0.842 Valid
VFM3 0.885 Valid
VFM4 0.741 Valid
Comfort CT1 0.889 Valid
CT2 0.798 Valid
CT3 0.868 Valid
Sustainability STY1 0.703 Valid
STY2 0.899 Valid
STY3 0.888 Valid
STY4 0.915 Valid
STY5 0.883 Valid
Attitude ATT1 0.795 Valid
ATT2 0.886 Valid
ATT3 0.871 Valid
ATT4 0.740 Valid
Behavioral
Intention
BI1 0.919 Valid
BI2 0.924 Valid
BI3 0.876 Valid
BI4 0.903 Valid
Source: Smart-PLS Output
Convergent validity can be seen from the loading
factor for each construct indicator. The rule of thumb
used to assess convergent validity is that the loading
factor value must be greater than 0.50. Based on table
1.3 can be seen that all indicator items have a loading
factor value above 0.50, so that all question items
used in this study are valid.
The construct reliability test comes after the
construct validity test and is based on the Composite
Reliability (CR) structure from the indicator block,
which is used to demonstrate good reliability. A
construct is declared reliable if the composite value is
reliable or Cronbach's Alpha> 0.7. Cronbach’s alpha
with a value of 0.60 to 0.07 which can be accepted in
explanatory research, while for more advanced, the
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value must be counted from 0.70 to 0.90 can be said
as satisfactory (Hair, Hult, Ringle, & Sarstedt, 2017).
Table 1.4: Composite Reliability (CR).
Variable CR Value Result
Safety 0.880 Reliable
Social acceptance 0.925 Reliable
Stimulation 0.894 Reliable
Ethics 0.925 Reliable
Quality 0.904 Reliable
Value for money 0.888 Reliable
Stimulation 0.889 Reliable
Comfort 0.934 Reliable
Attitude 0.895 Reliable
Behavioral Intention 0.948 Reliable
Source: SmartPLS Output
Table 1.5: R-squared coefficients.
Variable R-Square
Attitude 0.722
Behavioral Intention 0.766
Source: SmartPLS Output
Based on table 1.5 , the R2 value in Taiwan for
attitude variable is 0.722, it means that 72.2% of
variations or changes in attitude are influenced by
safety, social acceptance, stimulation, ethics, quality,
value for money, comfort and sustainability, while the
rest or 27.8% explained by other reasons such as
purchase reference (Hidayat, Kumadji, & Sunarti,
2016). Based on this, the results R2 show that the
influence of motivation on attitude variable is
moderate. The results of the calculation of R
2
show
that R
2
on the Behavioral Intention variable is
substantial
Besides looking at the R-square value, the model
is also evaluated by looking at the predictive
relevance Q-square for the constructive model. The
Q-square measures how well the observed value is
generated by the model and also the parameter
estimates (Hair, Hult, Ringle, & Sarstedt, 2017). The
quantity of Q2 has a range value of 0 <Q2 <1, where
the closer to 1 means that the model is getting better.
The magnitude of Q2 is equivalent to the total
coefficient of determination in the path analysis. The
value of Q2> 0 indicates that the model has predictive
relevance, conversely if the value of Q2 ≤ 0 indicates
that the model has less predictive relevance.
Table 1.6: Q
2
Value.
Variable Q
2
Attitude 0.459
Behavioral
Intention
0.605
Source: SmartPLS Output
Based on the results of the above calculations, it
is known that the Q-Square value in Taiwan for
attitude is 0.459 and behavioral intention is 0.605.
The result shows that the model has predictive
relevance.
Table 1.7: Path Coefficients.
Original
Sample
(O)
Sample
Mean (M)
Standard
Deviation
(STDEV)
T Statistics
(|O/STDEV|)
P Values
Safety ->
Attitude
0.450 0.448 0.085 5.286 0.000*
Social
acceptance ->
Attitude
0.053 0.051 0.074 0.710 0.478
Stimulation ->
Attitude
0.216 0.222 0.077 2.810 0.005*
Ethics ->
Attitude
0.332 0.334 0.066 4.995 0.000*
Quality ->
Attitude
-0.018 -0.023 0.095 0.194 0.846
Value for
money ->
Attitude
0.246 0.248 0.075 3.295 0.001*
Comfort ->
Attitude
-0.146 -0.146 0.079 1.844 0.066
Sustainability -
> Attitude
-0.168 -0.170 0.061 2.753 0.006*
Safety ->
Behavioral
Intention
0.075 0.070 0.093 0.809 0.419
Social
acceptance ->
Behavioral
Intention
0.313 0.308 0.071 4.433 0.000*
Stimulation ->
Behavioral
Intention
-0.068 -0.076 0.079 0.867 0.386
Ethics ->
Behavioral
Intention
-0.014 -0.009 0.068 0.207 0.836
Quality ->
Behavioral
Intention
0.147 0.148 0.120 1.221 0.223
Value for
money ->
Behavioral
Intention
-0.013 -0.006 0.068 0.194 0.846
Comfort ->
Behavioral
Intention
0.365 0.361 0.088 4.166 0.000*
Sustainability -
> Behavioral
Intention
0.201 0.202 0.078 2.591 0.010*
Attitude ->
Behavioral
Intention
-0.070 -0.060 0.069 1.006 0.315
Source: SmartPLS output
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Table 1.7 shows the results of PLS calculations
which state the direct influence between variables.
The result can be stated as follows:
1. The safety variable has a significant effect on the
Attitude variable with T Statistics value 5.286 >
1.96. Business activities must give confidence to
users about safety mechanisms to reduce risk of
renting and swapping (Albinsson & Perera, 2018).
By collecting the fingerprints of drivers, the
identity and criminal background of drivers are
verified in an attempt to protect the safety of
drivers. Uber and Lyft have opposed the
collection of fingerprints and refused to comply
with the new safety regulations imposed by
Austin, Texas.
2. The Stimulation variable has a significant effect
on the Attitude variable with T Statistics value
2.810 > 1.96.
3. Ethics variable has a significant effect on the
Attitude variable with T Statistics value 4.995 >
1.96.
4. The variable Value for money has a significant
effect on the Attitude variable with T Statistics
value 3.295 > 1.96.
5. Sustainability variable has a significant effect on
the Attitude variable with T Statistics value 2.753
> 1.96.
6. The social acceptance variable has a significant
effect on the Behavioral Intention variable with T
Statistics value 4.433 > 1.96. In an examination of
automobile leasing, Trocchia and Beatty (2003)
find that desire for variety, simplified
maintenance, and social approval motivate
behavior.
7. The Comfort variable has a significant effect on
the Behavioral Intention variable with T Statistics
value 4.166 > 1.96.
8. Sustainability variable has a significant effect on
the Behavioral Intention variable with T Statistics
value 2.591 > 1.96.
4.3 Model Fit
The GoF index is used to validate the overall model
(Tenenhaus & Sarstedt, 2012). This index is
developed to evaluate measurement models and
structural models, as well as provide an overall
measurement of the model predictions.
The SRMR is defined as the root mean square
discrepancy between the observed correlations and
the model-implied correlations. Because the SRMR is
an absolute measure of fit. When applying CB-SEM,
a value less than 0.08 is generally considered a good
fit (Hu & Bentle, 1998).
Table 1.9: Fit Summary Taiwan.
Saturated Model
SRMR 0.091
d_ULS 6.491
d_G 3.322
Chi-Square 3,312.092
NFI 0.634
Source: SmartPLS output
Based on table 1.9, RSMR value for Taiwan
model is 0.091 > 0.08 which means the value is
considered not a good fit. Note that early suggestion
for PLS-based GoF measures such as the “goodness-
of-fit” (Tenenhaus & Sarstedt, 2012).
4.4 Hypothesis
Here is the table for summarize all hypothesis results:
Table 1.10: Hypotheses summarized.
Hypothesis Path Results
H1a
Safety ->
Attitude
Supported
H2a
Social
acceptance ->
Attitude
Not-supported
H3a
Stimulation ->
Attitude
Supported
H4a
Ethics ->
Attitude
Supported
H5a
Quality ->
Attitude
Not-supported
H6a
Value for
money ->
Attitude
Supported
H7a
Comfort ->
Attitude
Not-supported
H8a
Sustainability -
> Attitude
Not-supported
H1b
Safety ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
H2b
Social
acceptance ->
Behavioral
Intention
Supported
H3b
Stimulation ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
H4b
Ethics ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
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H5b
Quality ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
H6b
Value for
money ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
H7b
Comfort ->
Behavioral
Intention
Supported
H8b
Sustainability -
> Behavioral
Intention
Supported
H9
Attitude ->
Behavioral
Intention
Not-supported
From table 1.10, safety to attitude variable which
states that the result is significant and positive. It can
be interpreted that consumers will think about
harmonization and stability such as improving
security, problem solving, feeling safe, and thinking
about future needs before assessing CC products.
Second is the relationship between the
sustainability on behavioral intention variable. It
indicates that minimizing selling prices, considering
the implications for the community, effectiveness,
efficiency, and responsibility to the environment are
influence the customers’ behavior toward CC
products.
Third, the relationship of stimulation to attitude
variable indicate users do some assessment for CC
products that should be modern, interesting, and over
unique experience.
Fourth, the effect of ethics on attitude occurred
indicates that Taiwan consumers concern about
moral, personal principle, and personal obligation on
assessing CC products.
Fifth, the relationship of value for money to
attitude is significantly positiv means reasonable
price, good choice, and good return to avoiding
wasting money are important as a represent of user’s
assessment for using CC products.
Sixth, social acceptance variable has a positive
and significant impact on behavioral intention means
impression or commonly known product, consumer’s
friend expected to use that kind of product, it has a
good impression, and accepted by the society are
important for represent user’s assessment.
Seventh, the impact of sustainability variable to
behavioral intention has a positive and significant
indicates that reducing the price, impact to
community, efficiency, effectiveness, and
environmental responsibility are important to their
subjective probability for performing behavior.
Another important finding is about the
relationship between the attitudes on behavioral
intention variable which founded insignificant means
that attitude-behavioral intention gap occurs in this
study. The discussion leads to the background why
consumers say something but do different things.
Some possibilities that occur are too much
information or lack of information. Information
overload or underload sometimes becomes a conflict
and creates uncertainty for action. Such as, having to
do R3 (reduce, reused, recycle) properly, buy organic
food ingredients, don't eat meat, avoid products from
certain countries.
The incident in Taiwan to invite the boycott of the
film Mulan from Disney (Everington, 2020).
Therefore, the complex interrelationships between
goals and actions for ethical consumption that are
contemplated in all consumption decisions and
considerations of impact are overwhelming.
The other reason is because social demands paced
on consumers. At the level of relations, individuals
think about their actions that are limited by others. In
this case, consumption decisions must be negotiated
and see the conditions of others. Various studies
illustrate where consumption is more often seen as a
selfish activity. When it should be seen in terms of
satisfaction in meeting one's own demands, intimate,
and distant others (Shaw, Chatzidakis, Goworek, &
Carrington, 2016).
5 CONCLUSIONS
The phenomenon of collaborative consumption
changes many things in terms of individuals,
businesses, communities, and even regions. This is
interesting because the CC trend seems to be growing.
Therefore, anything that affects consumers is an
important thing to understand.
1. The majority of respondents were choosing
delivery services as the most frequently used CC
products.
2. Most of variations or changes in attitude are
influenced by safety, social acceptance,
stimulation, ethics, quality, value for money,
comfort and sustainability, while the rest is
explained by other reasons such as purchase
reference. It is in the moderate category. Based on
the results, most of the respondents agree that
changes in behavioral intention are influenced by
safety, social acceptance, stimulation, ethics,
quality, value for money, comfort, sustainability
and attitude while the rest explained by other
reasons for example, trust, variety of service, e-
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WoM, perceived risks (Aruan & Felicia, 2019;
Septiani, et al., 2017).
3. The motivational variables that have positive
effect on consumer attitudes are safety,
stimulation, ethics, and sustainability.
4. Then, the motivational variables that have
positive effects on BI are social acceptance,
comfort, and sustainability.
5.1 Managerial Implication
There is some information which can be used for
collaborative consumption providers to start or to
develop their business based on this research.
1. The results said that if the feeling of seeking
harmony and stability is important for the positive
assessment of the product (Bardi & Johansson,
2017) So the business owner should pay attention
to security of the product. They have to make sure
about customers private data not leak. Trusted a
financial guarantor institution to ensure customer
funds is also necessary for online payment
methods.
2. The provider has to make sure that their product
can help people to solve their problem. For new
start-up, it will be better if they have market
research to see clearly about the consumer needs.
3. Respondents also concern of sustainability factor.
They willing to participate, willing to use the
platform more often, and sharing positive
recommendation for people based on
sustainability factor. Providers could create the
opportunities or event for community. For
example, the provider can hold a bazaar for local
food & beverage sectors. It can increase the
behavioral intention of consumers for taking care
of small community-based businesses.
5.2 Limitation and Suggestion
Finally, a number of potential issues need to be
considered below:
1. This study sees CC as a whole regardless of their
business sectors. Basically, products from the
same sector might have a difference, maybe in
terms of service, quality, or target market.
2. In line with Hamari, Sjöklint, & Ukkonen (2015),
that the gap between attitude and behavioral
intention which may be caused by cultural factors
is still large and research literature is still very
limited.
3. Sustainability is still the main attraction for
consumers in using CC products.
Furthermore, some suggestion for other scholar to
broader research finding related with collaborative
consumption or to stakeholder of CC products to have
more understanding about their market.
1. Using specific products or sectors such as
transportation or crowdfunding will be very
interesting considering that this topic is still
developing in terms of products and
community/consumers.
2. The other scholars might have interest in the
attitude-behavior gap that happened not only on
this study. It possibly related with the culture of
market (i.e. language, ideology, or structure of
community). Some of the researches even suggest
to use trust as a mediator between motivation and
behavioral intention.
3. This research gives confidence that consumers
support products that are good for the
environment / uplifted community. This can be
one of the considerations for business owners or
marketers to create or develop product with a
concern of sustainability.
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