Abstract
With the great development and innovation of informational technology and internet network, consumers nowadays are endowed with stronger ability to search for and deal with varieties of information. Mass and standardized production that came along with Industrial Revolution has been found to be not suitable for the present demands of market economy. Pine(1993), the author of Mass Customization, argued that the new economic mode of mass customization will replace mass production and turn into the 21 century mail stream. He defined mass customization as mass production to produce individually customized products and services. The classic representative of mass customization is to use co-design in the production of fashion products. This study tried to explore, on the basis of the co-design pattern of Nike sports shoes, the validity of the argument offered by Gurel and Gurel that the two individual traits toward fashion clothing—“Experimenting with Appearance” and “Enhancement of Individuality”—are the two motivation involved in the willingness to use the co-design pattern, that is, if they can be regarded as the two antecedent factors of “exciting experience” and “unique products.” Moreover, this study tries to develop related marketing strategy aimed at each target market of different clothing interests. 224 pieces of valid response data were collected from the students of College of Business in Tamkang University. We employed questionnaire to collect data and analyzed it by structural equation modeling analysis. The results of the study are summarized as follows: 1.Experimenting with Appearance(EA), the individual trait for clothing interests will influence in the positive way the two motivations on the willingness to use co-design-exciting experience, unique product. 2.The two motivations on the willingness to use co-design─exciting experience,unique product will influence the willingness to use co-design, and the unique product owns higher effect. 3.To the high Experimenting with Appearance(EA) group, the individual trait for clothing interests will influence the two motivations on the willingness to use co-design-exciting experience,unique product positively.Besides,these two motivations will influence the willingness to use co-design positively. 4.The study suggests corporation should see high EA group consumers as the target market of co-design in the future.
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