Abstract:
The research on enhancing effectiveness of smart hypermarket in digital age economy employs
two mutual supporting approaches, i.e., qualitative research to obtain indepth data and quantitative
research to strengthen and complement the former approach. The objectives of this research are 1) to
study the level of management innovation, quality of service, perceived value, awareness, satisfaction,
and effectiveness of smart hypermarket in digital age economy. and 2) to study the influence of
management innovation, quality of service, perceived value, awareness, satisfaction, effectiveness that
influence the management of smart hypermarket in digital age economy. Research data collection
primarily focuses on in-depth interview with 5 experts, 5 entrepreneurs, and 7 consumers, as well as
using questionnaire to gather data from 360 consumers in different hypermarket branches such as 27
branches of Big C and 21 branches of Tesco Lotus in Bangkok Metropolitan and vicinity areas. The
research deploys mean, standard deviation, percentage of coefficient of variation, minimum, maximum,
skewness, kurtosis, chi-square test, and correlation coefficient as the analysis tools. The results reveal
that 1) the level of management innovation relies moderately on (1.1) power of technology and (1.2)
accessible anywhere anytime; the level of quality of service relies (2.1) heavily on service on demand
and (2.2) moderately on digital service trends; the level of perceived value relies moderately on (3.1)
perceived usefulness, (3.2) perceived ease of use, and (3.3) perceived reliable security; the level of
awareness relies (4.1) heavily on awareness of worthiness and (4.2) moderately on awareness of
standardization; the level of satisfaction relies moderately on (5.1) convenience, (5.2) prompt, and (5.3)
economic; the level of effectiveness relies moderately on (6.1) trust, (6.2) reapply intention, (6.3)
recommendation, and (6.4) heavily on advantage over competitor; and 2) factors that have direct
influences on enhancing effectiveness of smart hypermarket are quality of service and management
innovation, whilst management innovation factor alone has an indirect influence on enhancing
effectiveness of smart hypermarket by means of service quality. In summary, business entrepreneurs
benefit from improvement of relevant activities that enhance maximal effectiveness of smart
hypermarket for consumers. Future research should focus on the qualitative impact among key factors
and analysis of consumer psychology, whereby proper management innovation will be devised for the
benefits of business entrepreneurs and consumers in this smart hypermarket of digital age economy.