Authors
1
PhD student, Department of Business Administration, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
3
Assistant Professor, Business Management Department, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the current research is the design
style of the interior environment of retail stores from a cultural
point of view.
Materials and methods: The research is mixed in terms of
nature, inductive-deductive and research design. Also, the
statistical population in the qualitative section is 14 academic
experts and experienced managers, and in the quantitative
section, it includes 384 customers of convenience stores in the
provinces of North Khorasan, Mazandaran, and Gilan. and
Golestan, which were investigated by the available sampling
method. The tool for collecting quantitative data is a
questionnaire. Finally, in order to validate the model, in the
qualitative method of MAXQDA software and in the
quantitative method of structural equation modeling (SEM)
based on partial least squares approach by Smart PLSR
statistical software and to determine the reliability of
Cronbach's alpha and composite and soft reliability. SPSS
software was used.
Findings: The results showed that internal environment
factors, store area design, management factors, store products,
support activities, customer (demographic, individual,
psychological and cultural) characteristics, facilitating and
inhibiting intervention factors and the consequences of
customers and the store on the environment The store has a
positive and significant effect.
Conclusion: Since customers are the only real assets of
businesses and the long-term survival of a business depends
on the ability to meet customers' needs and provide superior
value and satisfy them, evaluating customer expectations and
buying behavior plays an important role in business strategy.
and performs tasks.
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