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Does competitive intelligence help improve the bottomline? (Part 2)

In my last post on competitive intelligence, I discussed how competitive intelligence can help improve the bottomline in emerging markets. In our article published in Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, we observed that Competitive Intelligence (CI) activities have an impact on the market performance of Indian firms. In this post, I want to focus on the following three questions.   What are the macro and micro environmental drivers of Competitive Intelligence (CI) for Indian firms? How are CI activities organized within Indian firms? How is the usage and dissemination of CI taking place within Indian firms?   [Read Story]

Event Invitation: Beyond Bling: The role of conspicuous consumption in today’s society

Beyond Bling: The role of conspicuous consumption in today’s society 6th November 2012, 3pm – 5pm Clarence Room, Hilton Metropole, Brighton - BN1 2FU Recently, I won funding from Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK to arrange an event under the auspices of Festival of Social Science 2012. So, you are warmly invited to participate in the seminar ‘Beyond Bling: The role of conspicuous consumption in today’s society’ funded by the ESRC Festival of Social Science and hosted by the University of Brighton Business School. The growing economic and social importance of conspicuous consumption has become a [Read Story]

Status (luxury) consumption among British and Indian consumers

[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 status consumption as the consumers’ behaviour of seeking to purchase goods and services for the status they confer, regardless of consumer’s objective income or social class. Status consumption generally involved high-end expensive luxury products. They are not consumed by most people regularly but only at the social [Read Story]

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