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Enhancing Consumer Buying Behaviour Through Innovation Hubs: A Quantitative Study in the Indian Apparel Sector Cover

Enhancing Consumer Buying Behaviour Through Innovation Hubs: A Quantitative Study in the Indian Apparel Sector

Open Access
|Nov 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Factors influencing consumer purchasing habits through innovation hubs (Created by the authors)
Factors influencing consumer purchasing habits through innovation hubs (Created by the authors)

Figure 2.

Factor Loadings Value (Created by authors)
Factor Loadings Value (Created by authors)

Figure 3.

Strategy to enhance the consumer buying behaviour through innovation hubs in apparel industry in India (Created by authors)
Strategy to enhance the consumer buying behaviour through innovation hubs in apparel industry in India (Created by authors)

Component matrix analysis (SPSS Software)

Component
1234
Augmented reality and virtual reality.681
IoT enabled smart textile.657
Development of mobile applications .547-.423
Emergence of advanced retail stores.589 .235
Advanced payment methods .356.614
Eco-friendly materials .421
Interactive websites .661
Social media engagement-.321 .432
AI-powered customer service .527 .578
Customizable apparel options .552.421
User generated content .621.616.548
Virtual fitting rooms .548

Results of principal component analysis (SPSS Software)

ComponentInitial Eigen ValuesExtraction Sums of Squared LoadingsRotation Sums of Squared Loadings
TotalVariance %Cumulative %TotalVariance %Cumulative %TotalVariance %Cumulative %
14.82632.90232.9024.82632.90232.9023.31722.73622.725
22.41515.38845.8922.41515.38845.8922.85417.23838.925
31.5899.57354.7541.5899.57354.7541.95713.57246.257
41.1798.27559.1271.1798.27559.1271.54712.48265.185
5.9875.49568.567
6.7564.88672.147
7.6184.68276.483
8.6114.55879.258
9.5793.92582.985
10.5473.87188.149
11.4893.62593.643
12.4322.820100.00

Rotated component matrix (SPSS Software)

Component
1234
Augmented reality and virtual reality.681
IoT enabled smart textile .657
Development of mobile applications .547
Emergence of advanced retail stores .589
Advanced payment methods .614
Eco-friendly materials .421
Interactive websites.661
Social media engagement .432
AI-powered customer service.527
Customizable apparel options .552
User generated content .623
Virtual fitting rooms .548
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization

Status of developed hypothesis statements (Created by authors)

NumberHypothesis statementStatus
H1Consumer buying behaviour in the apparel industry in India through the innovation hubs is affected by technical factorsAccepted
H2Consumer buying behaviour in the apparel industry in India through the innovation hubs is affected by appearance related factorsAccepted
H3Consumer buying behaviour in the apparel industry in India through the innovation hubs is affected by digital engagement factorsAccepted
H4Consumer buying behaviour in the apparel industry in India through the innovation hubs is affected by personalization factorsAccepted

Results of the KMO and Bartlett's test (SPSS software)

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy.812
Bartlett’s Test of SphericityApprox. Chi-Square725.402
df105
Sig..000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acpro-2025-0014 | Journal eISSN: 3044-7259 | Journal ISSN: 1691-6077
Language: English
Page range: 165 - 178
Published on: Nov 10, 2025
Published by: Turiba University Ltd
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2025 Anandhu Vijayakumar, Jelena Davidova, published by Turiba University Ltd
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