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Seeks to highlight the potential role of consumer values as a guiding force to technology. Posits, in order to assess these values, that considering the field of futures research in consumer behaviour is warranted. Discusses several models of futures research advancing the Delphi technique as a...
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A survey of consumer attitudes towards marketing practices, consumerism and government regulations in India, an industrialising country, revealed a high level of consumer discontent and support for the consumerism movement. A comparison of the results of the survey of consumers in India with the...
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Explores the impact on consumer attitudes of the zenith of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) scare of 20/21 March 1996. Considers implications for consumer behaviour and marketing communications for the meat industry through exposition of a uniquely timed consumer survey. An initial...
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Presents in the first part a research project designed to explore use and attitudes towards banks by weekly, cash‐paid workers. Discusses in the second part, an attempt to summarize views of workers, employers, government and banks with regard to payments by cash and bank credit transfer,...
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Reports on a cross‐cultural study of retail bargaining behaviour between American and Chinese customers. The framework …. The respondents were 100 American and 100 Chinese Singaporean customers. The findings of this study suggest that the … customers. The study also found that Chinese people have a higher level of bargaining intention and a more competitive …
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A consumer model of environmentally responsible purchase behaviour was tested using covariance structural analysis. The model successfully predicted the purchase of environmentally responsible and non‐responsible product alternatives. A hierarchial relationship from values to product specific...
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The nature of interpretive consumer research is examined within the context of the contribution to the growth of knowledge played by the proliferation of tenaciously‐held rival theories. Dennett’s intentional stance is contrasted with a contextual stance in which behaviour is controlled by a...
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The implicit distinction in the buyer behaviour literature between the contexts of consumer markets and organizational markets has lead to a bifurcated approach to the development of buyer behaviour theory. While useful, even necessary, for teaching and planning purposes, this distinction is...
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Relationship marketing (RM) was conceived as an approach to industrial and service markets, and was considered inappropriate in other marketing contexts. Recently, however, the domain of RM has been extended to incorporate innovative applications in mass consumer markets. Much has changed in a...
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Examines some of the underlying assumptions, research objectives and practical applications of the repertory grid technique (RGT) in consumer research. It explains why the use and evaluation of the RGT should be grounded in the assumptions of the theory from which it derives, George Kelly’s...
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