The traditional family life cycle model explains the consumption behavior of individuals and households during a set of temporal periods in consumers’ lives. Yet, these seemingly distinct periods in one’s life may overlook times at which considerable consumer activity takes place,...

The traditional family life cycle model explains the consumption behavior of individuals and households during a set of temporal periods in consumers’ lives. Yet, these seemingly distinct periods in one’s life may overlook times at which considerable consumer activity takes place,...

When conducting or evaluating cross-cultural/cross-national research studies a critical question must be asked about the measurements: are they culturally an emic or etic? That is, is the research methodology culturally bound or culture free? The research described in this paper shows how etic...

Relationship marketing is a strategy to obtain a competitive advantage in tourism destinations. The term is defined as marketing activities for creating and maintaining customer loyalty. Despite the fact that creating customer loyalty is the main objective of relationship marketing, there is...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the demand for medical cosmetology from the perspective of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao people. We use a questionnaire, and examine the effects of demographic variables on the demand for medical cosmetology. The findings show that demographic...

This research investigates environmental attitudes among consumers in three countries: The United States of America, Kuwait and Turkey. The choice of the three countries is based on levels of income and economic development. The focus of this study is exploring characteristics of consumers...

The proliferation of the Internet and the latest mobile communication technologies have given rise to new forms of communication that made it easier for sellers as well as consumers to communicate and conduct business in real time and in virtual space with manufacturers, retailers or among each...

Learning market realities improves businesses. Kerala, India, traditional cottage units producing indigenous handmade goods are not an exception. Changes because of globalization have intensified competition to imported non-natural factory products into Kerala markets. Traditional industries,...

Among the several approaches to understanding value in business transactions, the one most frequently encountered in marketing, management, and economics literature is the tradeoff of benefits and costs, the difference or ratio of which is operationalized as value. In a complex business...

This research aims to investigate culture impact on the content of helpful online consumer reviews. Two distinct cultures, American and Chinese, were selected for comparison. The hypothesized culture effects were empirically examined with online customer reviews data collected from both...