Al-Jundi Salem A, Al-Janabi Haitham A, Salam Mohammad Asif, Bajaba Saleh, Ullah Shakir
School of Business, Skyline University College, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Faculty of Administrative Sciences, University of Al-Mashreq, Baghdad, Iraq.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 14;12:831014. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.831014. eCollection 2021.
This study examined the relationship between urban culture and street vending. Prior research on this topic is limited and inconclusive. Therefore, we have proposed an integrated model to test the positive effect of urban culture on street vending using multiple mediations of consumption patterns, resistance, and microfinance. We tested a sample of 425 responses that reflect the public opinion in Baghdad, Iraq. These responses were collected between September and November 2018. A partial least squares-based structural equation modeling is employed to test the validity of measurement models and the significance of the entire structural model, predictive power, and mediation analysis. We found that resistance mediates the effect of urban culture on street vending; low-income consumption and resistance sequentially mediate the effect of urban culture on street vending, while resistance mediates the effect of a lack of microfinance on street vending. The direct impact of culture on street vending is not significant, and a lack of microfinance positively influences the pervasiveness of trading on streets. This study contributes to the extant literature as it proposed and tested a novel and comprehensive model to analyze the relationship between urban culture and street vending, simultaneously examining the effects of culture, consumption, resistance, and microfinance on street vending.
本研究考察了城市文化与街头小贩经营之间的关系。此前关于该主题的研究有限且结论不一。因此，我们提出了一个综合模型，通过消费模式、抵制和小额融资等多重中介作用，来检验城市文化对街头小贩经营的积极影响。我们对425份反映伊拉克巴格达公众意见的回复进行了测试。这些回复是在2018年9月至11月期间收集的。采用基于偏最小二乘法的结构方程模型来检验测量模型的有效性以及整个结构模型的显著性、预测能力和中介分析。我们发现，抵制在城市文化对街头小贩经营的影响中起中介作用；低收入消费和抵制依次在城市文化对街头小贩经营的影响中起中介作用，而抵制在小额融资缺乏对街头小贩经营的影响中起中介作用。文化对街头小贩经营的直接影响不显著，小额融资的缺乏对街头交易的普遍性有积极影响。本研究对现有文献有所贡献，因为它提出并测试了一个新颖且全面的模型，以分析城市文化与街头小贩经营之间的关系，同时考察文化、消费、抵制和小额融资对街头小贩经营的影响。
