Status (luxury) consumption among British and Indian consumers
Saturday, 09 January 2010
[podcast]http://www.pauravshukla.com/podcast/status1.mp3[/podcast] 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
- Published in Blog, Luxury marketing, Podcasts
Consequences of consumer confusion
Friday, 25 December 2009
[podcast]http://www.pauravshukla.com/podcast/consumerconfusion1.mp3[/podcast] 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
Antecedents to consumer confusion in financial services industry
Thursday, 03 December 2009
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
Global marketing
Saturday, 28 November 2009
The ultimate aim of a marketer and marketing both is to satisfy customers’ needs and wants. Customers’ worldwide share many common features however, they display a unique response when such common elements are combined. This module focuses on the daunting issues in global marketing. Module content: Course outline Sessions Global marketing mix Marketing in emerging
- Published in International marketing