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Consumer’s Behavioral System of Approach and Avoidance Investigating Generic Medicine Distribution and Logistics in Japan

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This study will first select the feature of consumer behavioral system and build up its model then will evaluate the goodness-of-fit to confirm its suitability through the second-order factors analysis. There are six dimensions of risk correlated with consumer BIS – Functional, Financial, Social, Physical, Psychological, Time – and four dimensions of factors correlated with consumer BAS – Quality, Efficacy, Safety, Cost effectiveness.

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This research was supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), KOREA, through the Education Program for Creative and Industrial Convergence (Grant Number N0000717).

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Hosoda, T., Cheon, H.J. (2017). Consumer’s Behavioral System of Approach and Avoidance Investigating Generic Medicine Distribution and Logistics in Japan. In: Park, J., Chen, SC., Raymond Choo, KK. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. FutureTech MUE 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5041-1_47

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