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Massification of Luxury: the Chinese Invasion
Analysts world over have been writing about luxury consumption among the Chinese consumers. Few have also discussed the issues of Chinese luxury brands aimed at global consumers including ‘Shanghai Tang’ and ‘LaVie’. However, there is little discussion on how slowly but steadily Chinese entrepreneurs are acquiring or taking over Western luxury brands. This post is [...]
Status (luxury) consumption in cross-national context: Managerial implications
In my earlier post ‘Status (luxury) consumption among British and Indian customers’, I discussed the theoretical implications relating to one of my recently published study in the International Marketing Review. In this post, I am going to focus on the managerial implications.
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To briefly summarise the study, it focused on three antecedents [...]
Status (luxury) consumption among British and Indian consumers
Recently one of my research papers got published in the ‘International Marketing Review’. It focused on comparing the status consumption tendencies of British and Indian consumers. In this post, I shall focus on the findings of this study.
Firstly, let me define what status consumption is and how it affects our behaviour? Researchers define status consumption [...]
Consequences of consumer confusion
As stated in my earlier post ‘antecedents to consumer confusion‘, I shall focus on consequences of consumer confusion in this post. The earlier post focused on three important antecedents to consumer confusion namely; expectations, attribute confusion and information confusion in the context of financial services industry (i.e. banks, insurance. credit card, mortgage and other such [...]
Podcast: Antecedents to consumer confusion
Listen to the podcast on the ‘antecedents to consumer confusion’. The original article can be found here:
Antecedents to consumer confusion in financial services industry
This being my first podcast I would really appreciate any feedback on this.
Antecedents to consumer confusion in financial services industry
It is only the later part of the 20th century financial services institutions (FSIs) started morphing into a different shape altogether. Previously, a bank provided only banking services (i.e. mostly a place where you can deposit and withdraw money or similar assets). However, banks changed their role in a short span of time from consumer [...]
