This case explores the aggregate influence of corporate marketing practices on public health and examines the increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity epidemic. Specifically, it engages a discussion about a...

Rarely studied in marketing, leisure companions represent a significant aspect of the leisure servicescapes experience. In leisure places, companions can be defined in terms of their presence (v. absence), number, and identity (spouse/friend/family members). This article reviews previous...

The aim of this article is to enlight the relevancy of the concept of place attachment in order to qualify the affective relationship between consumers and service areas, particularly leisure places. This paper reviews the overall results obtained so far by researchers and highlights the...

This article documents the development and validation of a multidimensional superstition scale (MSS). Superstition is conceptualized as a three dimension personality trait: belief in culturally shared superstitions, superstitious pessimism and magical thinking rituals. We carried out three...

This article is based on research on Web site design and the purchase environment in store to conceptualize the relationships between Web site design and the consumer behavior. The framework suggested here recalls the relationships between the design, the perception of the Web site and the...

This communication explores consumers' perception of shopping environments from a cultural identity perspective. French second-generation ethnic consumers' discourse about their cosmetic shopping and consumption styles is analyzed. This enables us to understand that shopping environments are...

Knowing and identifying superstitious consumers enable firms to propose products or services which are not opposite to the superstitious practices of consumers. An exploratory study; 10 interviews and 4 collects of data (N = 484) were conducted in order to both identify the dimensions of...

The purpose of this research is to explore the combining of marketing and organizational literature. This paper seeks to evaluate the relationships between multichannel coordination and customer participation, as seen through the lens of potential customer opportunism. It aims at showing the...