Theoretical Background on Mass Customization Research -- Fundamentals of Culture Research -- Cultural Influence on Consumer Behavior Under Mass Customization -- Cultural‐bound Interest in Mass Customization – survey -- Cultural‐Bound Actions in Mass Customization – experiment. .

This study measures the degree of contagion or interpersonal influence in the diffusion of new consumer packaged goods (CPGs). The authors demonstrate that when an individual-level trial hazard model is properly specified to account for potential sources of biases, substantial contagion effects...

During the past thirty years, companies have recognized the consumer as the key driver for business and product success. This recognition has, in turn, generated its own drivers: sensory analysis and marketing research, leading first to a culture promoting the expert and then evolving into the...