Consumer Purchasing Behavior on Furniture: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
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Purchasing, Furniture, Systematic literature review, Future researchAbstract
Research on consumer furniture purchasing, longstanding, has recently expanded globally, focusing on diverse factors influencing buying behavior. Although interest in this subject is expanding, there aren't enough thorough and rigorous reviews, which results in a fragmented understanding of how consumers behave when buying furniture. Hence, this study aims to identify which research topics of interest are more evident in consumer purchasing behavior on furniture and provide future researchers with directions to explore other research areas on purchasing furniture. Adopting the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) search methodology, the searched keywords included “consumer*” OR “purchasing*” OR “purchase*” AND “furniture”, extracted from the Wiley Online Library electronic database. The study applied specific inclusion criteria, including publication dates from 2015 to 2025, country, methodology, model/theory, and other dimensions. Through a comprehensive method-based systematic literature review, out of the 61 initial records, two articles published in the consumer behavior purchasing furniture literature were included. Key trends, top publication sources and contributors, and the present body of research regarding furniture-buying consumer behavior are all identified by this study. This review highlights the limited methodological and geographical diversity of existing studies on furniture purchasing behavior. Some relevant research may not have been included, as the analysis was confined to studies meeting the review’s specific inclusion criteria. This paper contributes to uncovering the literature on consumer purchasing behavior on furniture to date. This review might act as a basic and instructive guideline for scholars to continue expanding knowledge in the topic with the suggested future research directions.
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