Marketing managers and researchers have had a long-standing interest in understanding the onset of new patterns of consumer behavior, but they have had few theoretical and methodological tools for studying the onset and stability of consumption patterns over the course of a person's life. The...

Marketing managers and researchers have had a long-standing interest in understanding the onset of new patterns of consumer behavior, but they have had few theoretical and methodological tools for studying the onset and stability of consumption patterns over the course of a person's life. The...

Overview -- Preparing for Academic Career -- Research Foundations -- Planning Research Projects -- Conceptual Framework and Theory Development -- Research Approaches and Designs -- Research Settings and Procedures -- Literature Reviews -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Writing Manuscripts for...

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Overview -- Understanding the Needs of Older Consumers -- Overview of Older Consumer Behavior -- Effectual Marketing Strategies and Tactics -- Marketing Food and Beverage Products -- Marketing Apparel and Footwear -- Marketing Housing --...

Purpose: This study aims to show how the increasingly popular life course paradigm (LCP) can be employed as an alternative to the successful aging perspective (SAP) as an overarching conceptual research framework to study elderly consumers' financial well-being. Design/methodology/approach: A...