Abstract:
The purpose of this independent study was to study the general information of the businesses, the perception of country of origin, and the marketing factors affecting purchase decision on coffee beans of small coffee shop entrepreneurs. The samples which were selected by
using Judgmental sampling to search for the owners of coffee shop in Bangkok consisted of 400 participants. The questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics used for data analysis included Frequency, Percentage, Mean, and Standard Deviation. Due to inferential statistics, the Independent Samples t-test, One-way ANOVA, the Scheffe test for multiple comparisons, and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.
The results revealed that the different time durations in operating the business and the different coffee menu affected the satisfaction and a tendency of purchasing imported coffee beans from other countries in different ways. Moreover, the different average number of customers and the average income also affected the behaviors in terms of frequency of purchasing coffee beans per month. In addition, the different country of origins of coffee beans significantly affected the
tendency of purchasing imported coffee beans from other countries at a significance level of 0.05.
Overall, the perception of country of origin of coffee beans and the marketing factors in terms of product and place were significantly related to the satisfaction and the tendency of purchasing imported coffee beans from other countries at a significance level of 0.05.