Purpose – Brands that target children frequently use a brand character to improve children's recall and recognition and to develop a relationship with young consumers. This paper aims to explore the reasons why marketers use brand characters to target children and how children perceive and...

Purpose – This article seeks to make a critical contribution to the contemporary debate on the active role of children as consumers, exploring the different meanings children confer on consumer goods and spaces in retail settings. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 60 children were...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate decision‐making styles of young consumers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It aims to test the applicability of Sproles and Kendall's Consumer Style Inventory (CSI). The paper also aims to segment young consumers based on their...

Purpose – Despite growing concerns over the increasing incidence of compulsive buying among young consumers, scant research attention has been focused on this darker side of consumer behavior among adolescent consumers. The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of compulsive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether young consumers, growing up during a time of cultural hybridization and at a time when the unisex hair salon has proliferated, will exhibit segments in their patronage likelihood toward a unisex hair salon staffed by young, white women....

Purpose – The role that peer influence plays in shaping young adult consumers' products purchase decision cannot be overemphasized. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of peer influence in shaping young adult male consumers' product purchase decisions in Saudi Arabia....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify which consumption practices young adults regard as necessary. Recently, necessity consumption has not attracted the interest of consumer researchers, even though it serves as an important concept for studying the fundamentals of consumption....

Purpose – This research aims to examine some of the main sources of frustration in the relationship between retailers and teen shoppers and the coping strategies they use as they interact with each other in a mall environment. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from retailers...

Purpose – The luxury market in China has grown significantly in recent years. One unique characteristic of luxury consumers in China is their youth. While exploratory in nature, this study aims to identify and offer a meaningful understanding of different segments of young luxury consumers in...

Purpose – This study sets out to capture the consumer perspective regarding the purchase request relationship between parent and child. Design/methodology/approach – This interpretive study enhances an understanding of these purchase request experiences as they are lived by respondents. The...