A potential solution to the trillion dollar digital shopping cart abandonment challenge
Digital shopping cart abandonment is a trillion dollar problem that is prevalent across the e-commerce industry irrespective of the sector. Our research sheds light on how to solve this challenge using the self-regulation motivation.
“Naming and shaming obesity, not the person”: negative attitudes towards obesity leads to eating healthily but diet plans may backfire
The obese economy: The continuing rise in obesity rates across the world has been accompanied by an increase in anti-fat attitudes, prejudice against, and stigmatization of, [Read Story]
Synthetic diamonds are forever too, or are they!
Lab-made, synthetic diamonds are becoming increasingly similar in quality, cut, and clarity to natural ones. Technological advances has resulted in their growing [Read Story]
Make them ‘buy now’: How to make users comfortable in buying through your website?
Importance of consumer concerns To create and sustain long-term and mutually beneficial online and offline relationships organizations need to reduce consumers’ [Read Story]
Invite: Status Consumption: A Journey Through Time & Cultures
Inaugural Professorial Lecture entitled 'Status Consumption: A Journey Through Time & Cultures' Thursday 3 April 2014 6pm at GCU London campus at 40 [Read Story]
Werther effect (the power of negative news)
The story behind the Werther effect is highly intriguing and chilling. In 1774, the giant of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von [Read Story]
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Make them ‘buy now’: How to make users comfortable in buying through your website?
Importance of consumer concerns To create and sustain long-term and mutually beneficial online and offline relationships organizations need to reduce consumers’ perceived risk; increase consumer trust and lessen security and privacy concerns. Addressing these consumer concerns is highly important because consumers increasingly rely on internet for their regular information search and purchase. The recent cyber-attacks on many high profile corporations’ websites and privacy breach has made these consumers concerns even more prominent because within online context the face to face interaction is absent, behavioral intentions of the firm collecting personal data is not clear and in many cases information is [Read Story]
Beyond Bling: Comparing Conspicuous Consumption in Today’s Society
Funded by British Academy, I led project with Professor Keyoor Purani at IIMK. The project looks at the influence of economic conditions on contemporary conspicuous consumption tendencies among consumers in the UK and India. The project findings demonstrate the variations between the British and Indian consumers showing how socio-economic market conditions influence conspicuous consumption.
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 an attempt to highlight that. 
For the last three or four centuries the Europeans have led the luxury market. The production and [Read Story]