The Role of Religious Commitment and Conspicuous Consumption in Predicting Compulsive Buying of Islamic Goods: A Case Study of Muslim Consumers in Indonesia

Jhanghiz Syahrivar, Chairy

2019

Abstract

Despite the fact that halal businesses are mushrooming all over the world, partly as a result of Muslims’ mass migration in the last decade, some empirical studies suggest that Halal consumptions are not always religiously motivated decisions. Consumption of Islamic goods as a form of the compensatory mechanism remains an area less explored in Islamic research. This study aims to investigate the role of religious commitment and conspicuous consumption in predicting compulsive buying of Islamic goods among 267 Muslim consumers in Indonesia. The data was processed using PLS-ADANCO software. This study generates three important findings: 1) Muslims consumers who are less committed in religious practices would compensate through status-conveying Islamic goods 2) conspicuous consumption has a strong and positive relationship with compulsive buying of Islamic goods and 3) conspicuous consumption and compulsive buying may belong to a wider construct called compensatory consumption. This research is significant in explaining a form of neurotic and chronic consumption behaviors in the Islamic context, such as compulsive buying of Islamic goods.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Syahrivar J. and Chairy. (2019). The Role of Religious Commitment and Conspicuous Consumption in Predicting Compulsive Buying of Islamic Goods: A Case Study of Muslim Consumers in Indonesia.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Business, Economy, Entrepreneurship and Management - Volume 1: ICBEEM, ISBN 978-989-758-471-8, pages 5-11. DOI: 10.5220/0009958300050011

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icbeem19,
author={Jhanghiz Syahrivar and Chairy},
title={The Role of Religious Commitment and Conspicuous Consumption in Predicting Compulsive Buying of Islamic Goods: A Case Study of Muslim Consumers in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Business, Economy, Entrepreneurship and Management - Volume 1: ICBEEM,},
year={2019},
pages={5-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009958300050011},
isbn={978-989-758-471-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Business, Economy, Entrepreneurship and Management - Volume 1: ICBEEM,
TI - The Role of Religious Commitment and Conspicuous Consumption in Predicting Compulsive Buying of Islamic Goods: A Case Study of Muslim Consumers in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-471-8
AU - Syahrivar J.
AU - Chairy.
PY - 2019
SP - 5
EP - 11
DO - 10.5220/0009958300050011