Family is one of the most important socio-cultural factors which reflects on a man's behavior. Contemporarily, young people demonstrate much more market activity. Except for doing shopping, they also play roles of advisors who influence choices of individual members of households. Most often, in...

This is a PDF file of ‘The Financial Judgment and Decision Making Process of Women: The Role of Negative Feelings' slides from a presentation at the Third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, September 21-23, 2011, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.This conference presentation...

By tracing the history of the links of financialization to consumer behaviors and marketer actions in the 20th century, this paper aims to show that consumer market phenomena are often shaped by the imperatives of finance. The paper employs selective historical overviews, mainly focusing on the...

In global markets, shopping centres are becoming important agents, defining the kind and quality of intangible features of supplies, not only establishing the assortments, but also affecting the consumption behaviour atmosphere that they determine in all its aspects. In this way, shopping malls...

The progressive development of the global market highlights a structural manufacturing over-capacity and therefore an offer permanently and significantly higher than the potential of absorption by demand. In the new competitive domain of over-supply, firms adopt specific policies of exploitation...

A brand represents the awareness and the image that a product has managed with a segment of customers. In business terms, a brand can be defined as a specific relationship created within a given market for the promotion of a particular product. The specific existing relationship between a brand...

Aim/purpose - The main purpose of this research is to identify and characterize the phenomenon of servitization in the food behaviors of Polish consumers and the factors shaping it. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical research was conducted on a sample of 660 respondents in the entire...

Consumer vulnerability affects billions of consumers worldwide, yet there is no consensus about what constitutes this state or about its consequences for consumers. Indeed, while consumer vulnerability is often invoked in consumer research, it is usually discussed informally, with little...

Customer relationship management has a great role in customers' loyalty and satisfaction. However, it is questionable if companies are facing their customers with adequate care. Research that analyzes income and its impact to customers' loyalty, especially in post-transition countries is scare....

This study relies on the social identity perspective to explore the relationships between the consumer-brand identification (CBI) construct and the customers' satisfaction, commitment, trust and loyalty toward hospitality brands. The methodology included a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) that...