Die vorliegende Dissertation vergleicht die Motive und Werte für den Kauf von Biolebensmitteln in Deutschland und Mexiko. Die durchgeführte internationale Literaturrecherche gibt ausreichend Hinweise darauf, dass in entwickelten Staaten sowie Entwicklungsländern die Beweggründe und...

Post-purchase consumer behavior is an area of consumer research that is underdeveloped. One new phenomenon that can be used to study post-purchase consumer behavior is the individual behavior related to “socially-visible brands.” A socially-visible brand (SVB) is a brand located on or near a...

In direct marketing, understanding the response behavior of consumers to marketing initiatives is a pre-requisite for marketers before implementing targeting strategies to reach potential as well as existing consumers in the future. Consumer response can either be in terms of the incidence or...

The present investigation aims at modeling the sales response to advertising and, in the process, sheds some light on the sales-advertising relationship subject, which has been at the center of a decades-long controversy due to its inherent complexities. We studied three Colorado Lottery games,...

Intelligent Product Recommendation Agents have been used for some time now by large, well known Internet businesses such as Amazon and Netflix. Unfortunately there is little research assessing the effectiveness of these systems in influencing online consumer behavior. Businesses that sell...

The mature market presents challenges to marketers because much of theinformation about the marketplace is based on younger consumers, differing fromolder consumers in many important ways. The research project was commisionedwith two main objectives: to determine what is required to cater for...

A Thesis Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science-Psychology - Industrial/Organizational

The environmental horticulture industry, also known as the “Green Industry”, is the second most important sector in the United States’ agricultural economy in terms of economic output and one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture; however, it has experienced a steady slowdown in...

The objectives of this study are to contribute to the understanding of consumer behaviour, and to investigate the existence of brand loyalty in the less developed countries. The study attempts to fill the gap in literature on consumer behaviour and consumer characteristics in the less developed...