Drawing from a large sample of consumer survey in five major cities of China, this empirical study examines different underlying mechanisms of cultural identity and consumer ethnocentrism constructs. Furthermore, it investigates their different impacts on consumer preferences and buying behavior...

Intergenerational (IG) communication within a family is an important source of brand equity. This study investigates how IG communication influences brand equity through multiple mechanisms. A careful examination of the nature and process of IG communication reveals two distinctive modes of IG...

In offering fresh insights on the country-of-origin effect literature, this article provides evidence to suggest that cognitive country image (CI) is not necessarily consistent with affective country image. Based on a large scale consumer survey conducted in China, the findings reported provide...