Businesses constantly strive to provide added value and brand equity to gain a competitive advantage, particularly in the contemporary hospitality industry. It is widely accepted that a luxury experience brand enhances the value of a luxury resort hotels industry. Since the 1980s, the concept of...

Current thinking on opinion leaders varies with respect to key features distinguishing these individuals. Some studies emphasize influence as the crucial determinant, others stress knowledge, and still others focus primarily on information transmission. Most research, however, see a combination...

Although international firms often face challenges as competition for world markets intensifies and as market preferences become global, diverse opportunities appear to be prevalent for international marketers of consumer products and services in emerging economies such as China. In addition to...

As the growing global influence of Korean Pop-Culture (commonly referred to as Korea Wave or Hallyu) draws the attention of scholars and media practitioners, it seems appropriate to investigate from a wide spectrum of perspectives (including cultural, communication, and purchase decision...

The study analyses the factors of Country of Origin Image influencing Vietnamese consumer attitudes towards Vietnamese garments by surveying 366 customers. Cronbach's Alpha analysis and EFA analysis together with multiple regression analysis were used with SPSS. The results show that only two...

Over the last decades, the global hospitality and tourism (or H&T) industry has undergone dramatic changes. Among the factors stimulating the growth of the H&T industry, the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media should be emphasized. The same trends...

Objective: The objective of the article is to explore the types of brands in terms of the country of brand origin (COBO) applied by emerging markets’ firms and motives for applying them. Research Design & Methods: A qualitative approach was used, i.e. multi-case study of five emerging...

The existence of industry and country of origin agglomerations is well-established in the literature, yet it remains to be understood which firm-level characteristics drive their decisions regarding specific locations when investing in a foreign country. Focusing on origin clusters, we provide...

The purpose of this article is to provide a robust and consistent cross-country measurement of the smart-shopper self-concept. Drawing on existing single-country studies, our work extends research by validating a pioneer cross-country scale that measures the smart-shopping mechanism in a...