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Samuelsson, Pontus, and Henrik Arnbom. "Den där digitala kakan som kan verka obehaglig, men även underlätta att hitta det vi efterfrågar?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45206.
Full textAslan, Can, and Maria Tawfik. "Individanpassad marknadsföring efter mina villkor : En studie om när Generation-Z upplever att individanpassad marknadsföring övergår från att vara användbar till att göra intrång mot integriteten." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Förvaltningsakademin, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45931.
Full textHarzdorf, Hjördis, Abdulrahman Hanin Talal, and Sumejja Duric. "Privacy Paradox : En kvalitativ studie om svenskars medvetenhet och värnande om integritet." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22402.
Full textThrough digitalisation of the society and the technological development, the marketing strategies has progressively been reformed. From mainly giving attention to the product towards the consumers to instead place the consumer in the center of attention. Subsequently advanced algorithms, Business Intelligence and digital DNA tracing has enabled individualisation and target marketing, for the interest of the consumer, this also gave access to predict consumer behaviour. Meanwhile individuals put a big value on anonymity and integrity online. Despite this consumers keep sharing their data voluntary, primarily through customer clubs, the internet and social media. This behaviour demonstrates a so called “privacy paradox”. Privacy paradox refers consumers awareness and concern about sharing personal data, while still sharing their information. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the phenomenon of privacy paradox exists in Swedish consumers actions and the consumer’s awareness of the use of personal data for targeted online marketing. The empirical material in this study exists of semi-structured interviews with 7 different respondents regarding their consciousness, trust and integrity online. The results were analyzed through the thematic strategy to easily identify behavioural patterns that the respondents showed. Lastly, the phenomenon of privacy paradox in Swedish consumers is answered through three research questions 1. “How aware are Swedish consumers regarding the information they share, particularly in target marketing? 2. “How much does the Swedish consumer care about their integrity?” 3. “Does the Swedish consumer show privacy paradox and why?”. The majority of the respondents were aware that personal information exists online. The awareness regarding what kind of information that is available for both private users and organisations varied. While respondents mentioned that they want to protect their privacy, their actions proved otherwise. With the help of this study, we could conclude that the phenomenon named privacy paradox exists through the information gathered from the swedish consumers that participated in this study. Reasons being the willingness to not be excluded from society and the cognitive trust towards organizations. You trust that they do the right thing. Respondents protected privacy by reducing the amount of personal information other individuals could access. Another reason that was brought up was the difficulty in changing habits and behaviour. Therefore respondents continued doing the same things as before, despite new knowledge and GDPR. Respondents showed different levels of understanding regarding targeted marketing. However the majority was not aware of the amount of stored information and how it is collected, for example through cookies.
Farina, Tatiana Mercier Querido. "Essays in Consumer Behavior." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2619.
Full textMy doctoral dissertation consists of three essays on consumer behavior. The first chapter studies demand for experience goods. Consumers behave very differently when they do not have perfect information about all brands available on a shelf. This paper extends the benchmark discrete choice model of consumer demand to capture two distinct features of experience-goods markets: prior brand experience and shopping frequency. Although the current literature incorporates habit formation in consumer demand models, it has not considered a more fundamental question: how the first experience with a brand affects the consumer's choice. The model is estimated using data on purchases of ready-to-drink orange juice, which comes from a new consumer-level panel provided by a large supermarket chain in Brazil. The results show that for this product prior experience of a brand is more important for a consumer's choice than price. Furthermore, own- and cross-price elasticities change significantly when experience and shopping frequency are taken into account. The findings of this chapter have implications for both firms' strategies and for antitrust analysis related to experience-goods markets. The second chapter explores how umbrella branding can significantly decrease consumer's first-time experience cost. Multiproduct firms often market their products under the same brand name. When a firm launches a new product with the same brand name, consumers can pool their prior experience with the brand to infer a quality for the product. This strategy can be particularly useful when a firm decides to enter a market of experience goods, in which consumers face a cost for trying a new product. The main objective of this chapter is to study the process by which consumers' brand choices and first-time purchases for ready-to-drink orange juices are affected by their experience with the same brand in another category. The results are consistent with signaling theories of umbrella branding as they indicate that consumers' experience cost with a product decreases with experience of other products of the same brand. The third chapter is about a household's choice of retail formats. Thirty percent of households' food expenditure in the United States comes from clubstores, mass merchandisers, supercenters, drugstores and convenience stores. However, earlier work focused on consumers' shopping behavior mostly in grocery stores and has not examined consumers choice across different types of retail outlets. To address this gap a multinomial logit model is estimated on household-level scanner data for the United States to study how households' characteristics are related to their choice of retail outlets. The results show that income, household size and ethnicity significantly affect these choices. These findings are important for policies that target certain consumer groups
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
Kharaishvili, Tinatin. "Consumer behavior towards telemarketing." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193307.
Full textFumagalli, Elena. "Aversive States Affecting Consumer Behavior." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLH004/document.
Full textIn this dissertation, I examine the influence of aversive states (e.g., unpleasant emotions, undesired outcomes) on consumers’ motivations and behaviors. In essay 1, I explore how feelings of physical and moral disgust can be threatening to consumers’ sense of self and motivate them to engage in compensatory consumption. In essay 2, I investigate why and when consumers exhibit negative behavioral intentions against firms that terminate unconditional business-to-consumer gift-giving initiatives. In essay 3, I explore how loneliness affects consumers’ preferences for products and services that do or do not require interpersonal touch and interaction (e.g., getting a massage vs. shopping online). Together, the three essays contribute to the literature on emotion, identity threats, and compensatory consumption, to the literature on sales promotion, and to the literature on loneliness. Moreover, the research findings inform marketing practice in the fields of advertising, sales promotions design, and consumer haptics. Finally, this research provides insights into consumer welfare by bringing attention to the unforeseen consequences of marketers’ actions that seek to benefit the consumers but instead generate compensatory behaviors to cope with their aversiveness
Ahsan, Ayesha. "Consumer ratings-reviews and its impact on consumer purchasing behavior." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-219309.
Full textStorytelling är ett av de mest kreativa, kraftfulla och effektiva redskapen i modern marknadsföring. På grund av den ökande användningen av sociala medier har storytelling blivit ett populärt redskap för att påverka konsumenternas beteende. Denna studie har utförts från perspektivet av storytelling med syftet att finna en korrelation mellan kundrecensioner och kundernas köpbeteende. Studien fokuserar på kundernas historier som reflekteras i recensioner och betyg, där korrelationen mellan recensioner och betyg och övergripande försäljning undersöks. Studien syftar till att besvara frågan ”Om recensioner & betyg har en korrelation med kundernas köpbeteende i digital marknadsföring, och om så hur kan korrelationen definieras?” Datainsamlingen och testandet har utförts i en praktisk miljö. Tyska online butiker har använts som huvudsaklig metod för datainsamling. På grund av strukturen på data har en kvantitativ analys metod använts. Genom att genomföra tester i realtid, har denna studie kompletterat tidigare forskning kring kundbeteende. Den fördjupade analysen av resultaten visar att det finns en korrelation mellan kundrecensioner och försäljning. Resultaten har visat att kundrecensioner kan påverka försäljningen av produkter och hjälpa en konsument i ett köpbeslut.
Tsou, Bennett T. "Value internalization and role-enactment as a model toward consumption a comparative study between the U.S.A. (Hartford) and China (Shanghai) /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 1986. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?8622728.
Full textRojas, Civic Maria. "Consumer Behavior on Social Media. : A study about consumer behavior towards fashion brands on social media." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-634.
Full textZhang, Wenqing. "Operational model with consumer behavior considerations." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107768.
Full textDans le marché de la consommation, la demande pour un produit est finalement déterminée par les décisions d'achat collectif des consommateurs. Comprendre les pilotes et les implications du comportement d'achat du consommateur est souvent d'une importance cruciale pour les entreprises. Cette thèse examine plusieurs modèles opérationnels qui intègrent le comportement des consommateurs. Nous étudions comment les décisions opérationnelles, comme la tarification, les dépenses de publicité, et la variété des produits, peuvent être utilisées comme leviers pour gérer la demande des consommateurs afin de stimuler la rentabilité de l'entreprise.Tout d'abord, nous développons des modèles théoriques de jeu pour analyser l'efficacité de la publicité liée responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) pour décourager la consommation d'aliments malsains. L'obésité infantile est l'une des préoccupations majeures dans le monde souvent attribuée à la consommation calorique des enfants et du manque d'activité physique. Dans le cadre de leurs programmes de RSE, plusieurs fabricants de produits alimentaires majeurs ont adopté des initiatives publicitaires qui limitent la publicité sur les catégories d'aliments malsains auprès des enfants, basée sur la croyance que si on emploie moins de publicité, il y aura moins de consommation des produits alimentaires malsains. Cependant, vu que il y a plusieurs détaillants qui n'ont pas adoptés on appuyer les initiatives de réduire la publicité des aliments malsains, ces détaillants pour suivent lui ventes sans limites. Cet recherche étudie une concurrence de Stackelberg dans une chaîne d'approvisionnement où un fabricant vend un produit alimentaire unique malsain aux clients grâce à un seul détaillant. Nous montrons que l'efficacité des initiatives de publicité dépend de façon critique sur l'effet de débordement et les sensibilités de la publicité et la publicité du fabricant détaillant, ainsi que sur la répartition de puissance entre le fabricant et le détaillant dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement. Plus simplement, une initiative publicitaire est généralement plus efficace si le niveau de publicité sur leader chaîne d'approvisionnement est limité. Fait intéressant, nous montrent que les ventes d'un produit alimentaire malsain peut augmenter à mesure que l'initiative de la publicité devient plus rigoureux.Deuxièmement, nous étudions si et comment une tarification optimale d'une entreprise et la variété des produits décisions stratégiques changent avec, le comportement des consommateurs prospectifs. Nous considérons un monopole qui vend des produits différenciés verticalement. Le monopoleur décide sur les prix au fil du temps afin de maximiser son profit de la vente de deux produits. Les consommateurs pèsent les gains attendus de l'achat de produits différents à des moments différents, et de décider quand et où acheter en vue de maximiser leur surplus individuels. Nos résultats montrent que, autre que la structure de coûts, le comportement des consommateurs stratégiques joue également un rôle important dans la détermination de la variété des produits. Nous menons des expériences numériques pour illustrer nos résultats et de générer un aperçu du rôle du comportement des clients stratégiques. Sans surprise, nous constatons que le comportement des clients stratégiques diminue les profits de l'entreprise. Fait intéressant, nous montrons que parfois les entreprises s'engagent de façon stratégique aux politiques de prix statiques, et systématiquement varier leur portefeuille de produits au fil du temps. Notre travail se distingue de la plupart des travaux existants sur la variété des produit par modélisation explicite des décisions d'achat des consommateurs au fil du temps, et en illustrant que le portefeuille de produit statique ne sont pas nécessairement sous-optimale et peut conduire à une augmentation de profits importants.
YINYIN, WANG. "Consumer Behavior Characteristics in Fast Fashion." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20322.
Full textProgram: Magisterutbildning i fashion management med inriktning modemarknadsföring
Zahid, Iqba Muhammad. "Sustainable Fashion Consumption and Consumer Behavior." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20715.
Full textProgram: Magisterutbildning i Fashion Management
Ryan, Mark Joseph 1978. "A Satisficing Model of Consumer Behavior." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12095.
Full textI develop a model in which a representative consumer selects an affordable consumption bundle, not as a single choice, but as the end result of a series of smaller, incremental purchase decisions. If the array of such incremental choices facing the consumer is sufficiently complex relative to the consumer's computational abilities, then the consumer may choose to employ a simplifying heuristic or rule-of-thumb to guide her behavior. I demonstrate the existence of a simple and well-defined example of such a strategy, based upon a satisficing decision rule. I further show that in the strategic setting defined by the interaction between consumers and firms that compete in prices, this satisficing strategy can form part of a Nash equilibrium, despite being ex ante only boundedly rational. The use of this satisficing demand strategy fundamentally alters the nature of price competition between firms (relative to the standard Bertrand model), changing the shape of the firm best response functions. The use of a satisficing strategy alters the incentives of firms, and these altered firm incentives lead to pricing behavior which has the effect of rationalizing the satisficing consumption strategy, so that a truly novel class of Nash equilibria in price-competing markets can be shown to exist under certain conditions. We explore the nature of this new class of equilibria, and find that equilibrium prices may be higher than those which would be obtained in the standard Bertrand case. In general, demand curves for each distinct good will have a kinked shape, similar to those found in 1939 papers by both Sweezy and Hall & Hitch. The Nash equilibrium profile will involve the kink in each demand curve coinciding with the equilibrium price for the corresponding good. The equilibrium price vector will therefore be robust to "small" fluctuations in cost (since marginal revenue is discontinuous at the equilibrium price), and under certain conditions, we find that prices may be upwardly flexible but downwardly rigid. We make an argument that the main results of the paper generalize from a representative agent setting to one with a population of heterogeneous consumers.
Committee in charge: Dr. Van Kolpin, Chairperson; Dr. Christopher J. Ellis, Member; Dr. Jeremy Piger, Member; Dr. Renee Irvin, Outside Member
Yoon, Sangsuk. "Procedure Invariance Violations in Consumer Behavior." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/482977.
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Although prior studies have widely examined how descriptions of task environment influence consumer preference, the effect of procedure elicitation methods on consumer preference have not yet been explored thoroughly. To address this issue, this three-essay dissertation investigates the effect of preference elicitation methods on consumer preference in three different domains: anchoring, risky choice and decision framing. This dissertation also uses a multi-method approach that includes behavioral experiments, meta-analysis, p-curve analysis, eye-tracking, and computational modeling to deeply understand the impact, robustness, and underlying processes of procedural manipulations in the three domains. The overall results show that changes in decision processes not only affect consumer preference immediately in all three domains, but also have long-term effects. Critically, these findings imply that the impact of procedural manipulations on consumer preference is robust and is not a short-term distortion of preference. Thus, marketers and policy makers can utilize different procedural elicitation methods to shape long-term consumer preferences, and need to consider decision procedure in setting up marketing strategies. Limitations and future research directions are discussed in the last chapter of the dissertation.
Temple University--Theses
Dyachenko, Tatiana L. "Bayesian Models for Studying Consumer Behavior." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403017394.
Full textRigby, Danielle Marie. "Treatment Integrity of Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) in Public School Settings." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8635.
Full textDong, Xiao. "Consumer Preferences, Consumer Behavior and Producer Responses in the Retail Sector." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1572935866720799.
Full textRigby, Danielle Marie Green. "Treatment Integrity of Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) in Public School Settings." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9050.
Full textThienmongkol, Kaorat, and Pongsatorn Thaisuntad. "Consumer behavior toward online purchasing behavior : “What factors trigger the online purchasing decision of young Swedish consumer?”." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6544.
Full textKadambi, Rupasri. "Analysis of data mining techniques for customer segmentation and predictive modeling a case study /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
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Ye, Lei Pelton Lou E. "The impact of gender effects on consumers' perceptions of brand equity a cross-cultural investigation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9007.
Full textBlevins, Leia, James J. Fox, and S. Salyer. "School-wide Behavior Support: Student Outcomes, Treatment Integrity, and Sustainability Issues." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/156.
Full textMecit, Alican. "Four essays on psycholinguistic effects in consumer behavior and consumer-object relations." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021EHEC0002.
Full textIn the first essay, I investigate language as a novel antecedent of anthropomorphism. Across eight studies, I show that gender-marking of non-human nouns in gendered languages (e.g., French) influences the way individuals mentally represent these entities, and as a result increases their generalized tendencies to anthropomorphize consumption objects. I demonstrate the effects both by comparing anthropomorphism as a function of natural differences in languages (e.g., English, French, Italian) and by manipulating the presence of gender-markings for non-humans in within-language studies. I further show that within gendered languages, grammatical gender of non-human nouns, although semantically arbitrary, influences consumers’ interactions with brands and consumption objects consistent with connotations of femininity and masculinity. In the second essay, I test whether the grammatical gender mark of diseases affects consumers’ risk judgements. In French and Spanish, the name of the disease resulting from the virus (COVID-19) is grammatically feminine, whereas the virus that causes the disease (coronavirus) is masculine. In a series of experiments with French and Spanish speakers, I find that grammatical gender affects virus-related judgments consistent with gender stereotypes: feminine- (vs. masculine-) marked terms for the virus lead individuals to assign lower stereotypical masculine characteristics to the virus, which in turn reduces their danger perceptions. The effect generalizes to precautionary consumer behavioral intentions as well as to other diseases, and is moderated by individual differences in chronic gender stereotyping. In the third essay, I study whether attributing humanlike characteristics to non-human entities facilitate the inverse process of denying human characteristics to other humans (dehumanization). Across four studies, I show that the tendency to anthropomorphize is positively correlated with a tendency to dehumanize other individuals, as well as with support for dehumanizing policies; the use of technological devices with humanlike characteristics is associated both with increased anthropomorphism and increased dehumanization. Causal evidence shows that priming with anthropomorphic cues, such as a humanlike robot, increases dehumanization and denying secondary emotions to other individuals. Furthermore, I find that dehumanization only occurs in interactions with anthropomorphized objects and that consumers’ attitudes toward the anthropomorphized object moderates the effect, with more favorable attitudes ironically leading to greater dehumanization tendencies. In the last essay, I study whether the way one talks and thinks about time affects the inferences s/he draws from the perceived speed of time. The results of four experiments show that when time is perceived to have passed quickly, people speed up to compensate for the lost time. Whether one conceptualizes herself as a moving agent on a stationary timeline or a stationary agent on a moving timeline moderates this effect. People who conceptualize themselves as moving agents are more likely to infer their speed from the speed of time, and become faster (slower) when they experience time passing unexpectedly quickly (slowly). As a result, they suffer from cognitive trade-offs, such as inaccuracy and impulsivity, more than those who conceptualize themselves as stationary agents on a moving timeline
Steinbach, Lisa. "Parent and teacher treatment integrity and conjoint behavioral consultation." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31141.
Full textZhao, Dan. "The Chinese Consumer Shopping Behavior on Taobao." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-179382.
Full textLachowska, Marta. "Essays in labor economics and consumer behavior /." Stockholm : The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38633.
Full textFarney, Ryan M. "The Influence Exposure Has on Consumer Behavior." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1251.
Full textAbt, John Michael. "The Impact of Necessity on Consumer Behavior." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/421886.
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I find that a bad reputation is not necessarily bad for business. I argue that a bad corporate reputation is less likely to hurt sales of tangible goods than intangible services, because assessing quality for the latter is inherently difficult and customers often rely on seller reputation to choose providers. I also argue that a necessary product is less likely to be adversely impacted than a discretionary one because in many cases the customers cannot avoid purchase of the product. I find that product necessity strongly affects consumer opinions and behavior. I argue that consumers “like” firms that offer products they want more than firms that offer products they need but that these opinions do not necessarily drive purchase behavior. I partition firms included in a well-established, corporate reputational survey into those that offer basic needs, perceived necessities and discretionary products. I find that consumers rate firms that offer discretionary products higher than firms that offer necessary products. Despite this tendency, firms that offer discretionary products and necessary products have similar profitability. Lastly, while consumers dislike price increases, they are more likely to repurchase basic needs than perceived necessities or discretionary products, arguably because they have no choice for the former.
Temple University--Theses
Cho, Edward Ku. "Essays on consumer behavior in retail stores." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41715.
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This dissertation is a collection of three empirical essays in industrial organization using data from an anonymous retailer. All these chapters examine some facet of consumer behavior. The first chapter estimates demand for store and national brand over-the-counter pain relievers. There is evidence that the substitution patterns between store and national brands are starkly asymmetric- price cuts by national brands steal more share from store brands than store brand price cuts steal share from national brands. Another distinguishing characteristic between store and national brand products is that store brands can be found at only one retailer while national brands are found virtually anywhere. I find that an increase in the number of competing local retailers is associated with an increase (decrease) in store brand (national brand) share, which is consistent with the unique availability of store brands. In the second chapter, I investigate consumer inventory behavior and find that the increase in quantity resulting from a sale is in large part due to stockpiling motives. For example, using field experiment data, the estimated increase in consumption (net of stockpiling) is close to zero for the product categories mouthwash, diapers, and chocolate. I also identify a selection bias when one uses store-level data to estimate the impact of price on quantity. The third chapter evaluates the effectiveness of lowering prices versus just claiming prices are lower on demand, and how this relates to consumer price knowledge. Using a large-scale field test in which we varied both actual price (in the absence of any cue) and claimed price, we find that the response of these two effects is positively correlated.
(cont.) A likely explanation for this positive correlation is that customers simply care more about the prices of some products than others. Also, customers respond more to low prices on items for which they have good price knowledge, but respond more to low price claims when their price knowledge is poor, although this is a second order effect.
by Edward Ku Cho.
Ph.D.
Hoefener, Karen. "Coffee house consumer behavior in Changsha, China." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16576.
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Women in Changsha are patronizing coffee-houses, ordering beverages and sweets, and disliking the taste of the expensive product purchased. This thesis is an exploratory research study conducted in Changsha, China with a consumer behavior focus. It uses primary surveys and interviews in addition to secondary sources from books, articles, and academic journals. It seeks to identify underlying motives for purchasing behavior from working women in the developing third-tier city Changsha, Hunan, China. It delves into the psychology of the working women who spend their hard-earned discretionary incomes at costly western chain coffee-houses. The inland mass-market consumer class feels the desire to project their newly established status while needing to save money for their personal future, their children’s schooling, and their parent’s retirement. They must wisely spend discretionary income while satisfying social societal norms. An individual’s self-concept plays and important role in determining which coffee shop she will frequent and what she will order. Daylight Donuts, Starbucks, Costa Coffee and local café’s all serve brewed coffee but they have different associations. This study aims at understanding the influencing factors associated with coffee-house brand equity and how the consumer’s perception of the brand forms her purchasing behavior. All coffee-house brands are relatively new in Changsha, none existing more than seven years. They do not have lasting ties with the community and need to create consumer relationships to ensure sustainability. Changsha women are bold and strong willed. If a corporation is to succeed in the future of Hunan, it will need to create an environment of hospitality excellence, place socially responsible roots in the society, and ask its customers what they want.
Ma, Li. "Essays in Housing Choices and Consumer Behavior." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337930256.
Full textBhardwaj, Vertica. "THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER ORIENTATIONS ON THE CONSUMPTION OF COUNTERFEIT LUXURY BRANDS." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/869.
Full textChen, Kai-Ming, and 陳凱銘. "Consumer Loneliness and Consumer Purchase Behavior." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/khmap7.
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Despite the popularity of social networking and the internet, loneliness appears to prevail among consumers. However, previous studies did not provide much evidence regarding the association between consumer loneliness and consumer commodity preferences. With the aid of the questionnaire developed by the study, the data of the study were collected from Taiwanese consumers.The data of the study were analyzed to examine the direct effects of consumer emotional loneliness and social loneliness on consumer commodity preferences and the indirect effects of consumer emotional loneliness and social loneliness on consumer commodity preferences with consumer loneliness used as a mediating variable. Furthermore, the study employed a moderating model with e-commerce used as a moderator variable to examine the moderating effects of e-commerce on the influence of consumer loneliness on consumer commodity preferences. As shown by the results of the study, emotional loneliness and social loneliness had significant direct effects on consumer commodity preferences. With loneliness used as a mediating variable in the study, consumer emotional loneliness and social loneliness were found to have significant indirect effects on consumer commodity preferences. As e-commerce was used as a moderator variable, it was found that e-commerce had significant effects on the influence of social loneliness on consumer commodity preferences, but had no significant effects on the influence of emotional loneliness on consumer commodity preferences and the influence of loneliness on consumer commodity preferences.
Ting, hau-jay, and 丁豪傑. "Consumer Behavior of Pager." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82551817099091874345.
Full textKusterer, Sandra. "Shyness in consumer behavior." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/27878.
Full textWang, Ming–Li, and 王明俐. "The effect of consumer involvement on customer complain behavior–moderating of consumer behavior." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31037759465067768829.
Full text育達商業科技大學
企業管理所
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recent years, the rise in consumer awareness, consumer goods for their favorite will take more time to study before deciding to buy or not. Therefore, many papers have a lot of consumer involvement dwell, which the study of consumer shopping behavior is most extensive. But most of the research show that consumer satisfaction with the degree of involvement were highly positively correlated. This study places the reverse way of thinking, for customer complaints and consumer involvement on the impact of customer complaint behavior research. Research focus is: (a) of consumers purchase in the event of unsatisfactory conditions, whether the act would have complained. (b) the difference would interfere with consumers' spending habits involved in the effect on the strength of customer complaints. In this study, questionnaires were obtained 373 valid questionnaires, the data analysis was to the following conclusions: (a) the involvement of the customer complaint behavior of consumers have a significant effect. (b) the consumer habits of the consumers involved between customer complaint behavior and interference. These conclusions will help the industry understand consumer behavior and marketing strategy as the basis for selection.
Huang, Jheng-Hao, and 黃鉦皓. "The effect of consumer involvement on customer complain behavior- moderating of consumer behavior." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12642208751719067527.
Full text育達商業科技大學
企業管理所
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Some scholars have suggested impulse buying behavior research can address the issues complained about, because consumers expect to avoid inconsistencies resulting discontent. Studies have pointed out that the behavior of regret to the complaint through the intermediary between the (satisfaction, repurchase will complain, etc.) giving rise to complaint behavior, but sorry if you do not act through intermediaries is a direct result of complaints will have an impact. Consumer impulse buying by the reaction. Since there is no relationship involved, whether there will be regret. In psychology, that the inhibition of inappropriate or unhelpful behavior and other aspects of psychological control functions poorly, resulting in the form of individual impulses, inside and outside the control of personality traits will increase or decrease the impulse buying of regret arising after. This study demonstrated, impulsive buying behavior of consumers has a significant impact on degree of regret.Locus of control personality of impulsive buying behavior and consumer purchasing behavior between regret interference
Horng, Jiann-Ping, and 洪建平. "TTHE EFFECT OF CONSUMER SELF-REGULATION TO CONSUMER BEHAVIOR." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05314399699740266680.
Full textYang, Linyun Wu. "How Stereotypes Shape Consumer Behavior." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2990.
Full textSince the cognitive ability to process information is limited, people often rely on stereotypes to help them make sense of their social environment. These knowledge structures allow people to utilize past experiences and social learning to infer the characteristics and behaviors of individual group members. Stereotypes provide their holders with scripts, specifying how to interact with members of specific social groups (e.g., what products to choose or avoid and how certain actions may be interpreted). Despite the prevalent use of stereotypes in daily life, little research in consumer behavior has examined the role of stereotypes from this perspective. I propose that consumers use stereotype knowledge to navigate interpersonal interactions through adjusting their self-evaluations and product choices to match the needs of the social situation. My research suggests that both the stereotypes applied to the self and those applied to others have implications for how consumers strategically leverage this socially shared knowledge when interacting with others.
In Essay 1, I examine how consumers use stereotypes to guide their self-evaluations when preparing to interact with someone who may stereotype them. Most interestingly, consumers are selective in what aspects of the stereotype they take on, depending on whether they have more interdependent or independent self-construals. In three studies, I demonstrate that individuals with more interdependent self-construals engage in selective self-stereotyping and that these shifts in self-evaluations are specifically tailored to the preferences and expectations of the interaction partner. However, I find that individuals with more independent self-construals engage in selective counter self-stereotyping in order to distance themselves from the constraints of the stereotype and also to rebuff the expectations of the interaction partner.
Essay 2 examines the various impression management concerns that arise when consumers choose products to share with others. I find that when the consumer has little information regarding his consumption partner, stereotypes related to the consumption partner's social group are used to guide product choices. Whether the chosen products are stereotype consistent or inconsistent depend on the consumer's social goals and the consumption partner's expectations. Across four studies, I take both the perspectives of the consumer making the choice and the consumption partner to examine the various strategies adopted for making joint consumption choices and also to evaluate the interpersonal consequences of these strategies.
Dissertation
Jyh-Bin, Li, and 李志彬. "Determinants of Consumer Noncomplaining Behavior." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31010106233529749598.
Full text大葉大學
國際企業管理學系碩士在職專班
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Recently, with the raising of consumers’ awareness, the number of consumption dispute case is increasing year by year. How to deal with consumers complains and maintain the market share are becoming the important problems for business currently. However, most dissatisfied consumers will not adopt direct complaints. Therefore, this research investigated the effects of switching costs and individual capital on consumer noncomplaining behavior. Data of total 283 questionnaires were analyzed. There are two major findings: (1) There is a significant positive correlation between switching costs and noncomplaining behavior. (2) Individual capital symbolizing personal condition characteristics significantly explained the variance in the noncomplaining behavior.
DURAN, JOSE, and 杜朗. "Consumer behavior on sustainable fashion." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b59vca.
Full text國立臺北科技大學
管理學院外國學生專班
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In resent years fashion has been considered the second largest industry that harms the environment the most. Because of this devastating problem the fashion industry has been taking great steps to minimize their footprint and still be able to make a profit on their business. Also at the same time consumers are making smart choices on making their purchases, both consumers and fashion companies are working on creating smart environmental friendly choices when creating clothes and making purchases. This research examines the ecological affect of each part of production process and the environmental problems they contribute. A survey was created and Maan-Witney U test was applied to examine the consumer behavior of fashion consumers and analyze their knowledge of sustainable consumption and their purchased behavior for the creation of a sustainable fashion brand.
Lin, Wei-Chieh, and 林煒杰. "Consumer Behavior Research of Souvenirs." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f7nbq4.
Full text真理大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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In recent years, tourism has been actively promoted by government. The consumer purchasing behavior of local souvenirs, which is an important part of the tourism revenue, is also an important part of the gift giving behavior. Therefore, this study is supposed to explore the impact of consumer demographics variable and brand awareness, store atmosphere, price promotions, local features, product attributes, brand stories of souvenirs on purchases behavior and repurchase intentions of souvenirs. This study uses questionnaires and analysis. The results show that there are significant differences in the brand awareness of different marital status and place of residence of purchase of souvenirs; Consumers of different ages have significant local features and brand stories in purchasing souvenirs. Difference brand awareness, store atmosphere, price promotions, local features, product attributes and brand story would have a significant positive impact on repurchase intentions.
"Consumer behavior of tamagotchi keepers." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889371.
Full textThesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 59).
Questionnaire in Chinese.
ABSTRACT --- p.i
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii
LIST OF TABLES --- p.v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.vi
Chapter
Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4
Product Life Cycle --- p.4
Motivation --- p.6
Level of Involvement --- p.8
Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.10
Management Objectives --- p.10
Research Objectives --- p.10
Research Design --- p.11
Hypothesis Testing --- p.16
Motivation --- p.16
Level of Involvement --- p.17
Miscellaneous --- p.17
Data Collection Method --- p.19
Sampling --- p.20
Chapter IV. --- RESULTS --- p.22
Findings of Focus Groups --- p.22
Survey Sample --- p.25
Motivation --- p.26
Level of Involvement --- p.30
Other Findings --- p.33
Concept of Electronic Pets --- p.33
The Liking for Keeping Pets --- p.33
Duration of Nurturing a Tamagotchi --- p.34
Habit of Buying Cartoon Character Merchandise --- p.35
Chapter V. --- LIMITATIONS --- p.37
Sampling Bias --- p.37
Reliability --- p.37
Validity --- p.39
Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.40
APPENDICES --- p.46
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.59
Wang, Huihui. "Consumer Behavior and Firm Competition." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12830.
Full textUnderstanding consumer behavior is critical for firms' decision making. How consumers make decisions about what they want and buy directly affect the profits of firms. Therefore, it is important to consider consumer behaviors and incorporate them into the model when studying the optimal strategy of firms and competition between firms. In this dissertation, I study rich and interesting consumer behaviors and their impact on firms' strategy in two essays. The first essay considers consumers' shopping cost which leads to their preference for one-stop shopping. I examine how store visit costs and consumer knowledge about a product affect the strategic store choice of consumers and, in turn, the pricing, customer service and advertising decisions of competing retailers. My analysis offers insights on how specialty stores can compete with big-box retailers. In the second essay, I focus on a well-established psychology phenomenon, cognitive dissonance. I incorporate the idea of cognitive dissonance into a model of spatial competition and examine its implications for selling strategy. I provide new insight on the profitability of advance selling and spot selling as well as the pricing of bundle and its components. Collectively, two essays in this dissertation introduce novel ways to model consumer behaviors and help to understand the impact of consumer behaviors on firm profitability and strategy.
Dissertation
Yu, Wan-Chang, and 萬昶佑. "Taxi Business Consumer Behavior Study." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ue462b.
Full text淡江大學
資訊管理學系碩士在職專班
106
To provide business travelers with convenient travel services through the issuance of ride tickets, which will help the growth of the taxi business. This paper analyzes the transaction records of commercial taxis and expects to analyze the transaction history of commercial taxis to provide strategies and suggestions for promotion of vehicle vouchers. In this study, a case study method was used to select the T-brand team with the largest market share in Taiwan taxi fleet as the research object. Collected approximately 670,000 sets of corporate ticket transactions for the T-brand fleet in 2016, 2017, and conducted a rider record analysis. The analysis was conducted in three orientations—enterprise introduction, corporate car use, and the use of boarding vouchers. This study finds that users who use vouchers most frequently use mobile phone APPs for taxi calls, which account for 64.89% of all taxi behaviors. The location of business users who use the ticket is Taipei City, which accounts for 73% of the imported company ticket. According to the analysis of business types, the number of imported hotels (40.6%), ticket usage (37.3%), and ridership (39.56%) for Type F (wholesale, retail, and catering) companies are all highest. The time slots for corporate users are concentrated at 09:00~17:00, and the peak time is at 13:00~15:00. The average take-up time is 11~15 minutes, which means that most enterprises mainly rely on short-term demand. This study finds that (1) the ratio of each type of T-brand consortium''s introduction of ticketing occupies less than 1% of the total number of companies in Taiwan, indicating that there is still much room for growth in the implementation of ticketing services. (2) The maximum car use time is from 13:00 to 15:00. Drivers can be encouraged to undertake tasks during this time to receive the application car crowd. (3) Integration with the enterprise ERP system and automatic transfer of employee ride records can help companies accelerate the internal travel expense reimbursement process.
Lai, Chih-Chun, and 賴智純. "Economy Hotel in Consumer Behavior." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15912195364205175245.
Full text國立臺灣師範大學
運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班
102
Objective:The main purpose of this study was to understand the background population traveler's budget hotel accommodation variables, consumer behavior, degree of importance of product attributes, current status of product attributes satisfaction. Furthermore, Then discusses different background variables and consumer behavior and the impact of the importance of product attributes and the degree of satisfaction with the situation。 Subjects:The group of domestic and foreign tourists age above 12 as the subjects of this study. Tools:The study makes use of the questionnaire method, four parts were divided into questionnaire, Hotels attribute importance degree, Accommodation Satisfaction, Personal Background, Consumer Behavior. The date of questionnaire conducting was from 15 November to 31 December 2013, through hotel handed the travelers to fill out the questionnaire, the returning questionnaires were 527. Methods:The questionnaire data were analyzed by Descriptive statistics analysis, item analysis, factor analysis, Reliability analysis, One-way ANOVA, t-test, Chi-square test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and other statistical methods for analysis. Results:The results finds that the sample of those travelers was female than male, the age of most travelers were from 30 to 39, the majority of “unmarried” marital status, then main occupation among the travelers was “Service worker and shop/market sales worker”, most travelers live in Taiwan. Accommodation purpose of sightseeing in the majority, travelers to the hotel to take a taxi up to. Obtain this hotel to Internet-based information sources, accommodation based on twin room type, room rates of up to NT$2,000-2,499. Book this hotel through the travel agency side is more, Overall satisfaction was satisfied accommodation, travelers are likely to stay again and recommend friends and family to come to stay. Product attribute importance and satisfaction in six dimensions showed significant correlation. In which "safe and clean" dimensions and "safe and clean" related to the highest value was significant (r=0.608,p< 0.01). Will affect both the degree of mutual importance and satisfaction.
Moruszewicz, Agata Julia. "Neutralizing shyness in consumer behavior." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/27420.
Full textAlhinho, Matilde Maia. "Empirically testing the dimensions of consumer trust in e-commerce." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/15227.
Full textTsau, Richard, and 曹明誠. "The consumer typology and consumer behavior research of convenience stores." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93664969157358240484.
Full text國立成功大學
企業管理學系碩博士班
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The consumer behavior of convenience stores is different from other types of shopping, but previous researchers focus on the field of department stores, supermarkets, or other types of shopping in their surveys of retail issues. Little attention has been given to the consumer behavior in convenience stores. This research categorize the consumers of convenience stores by two taxonomies at the same time, first it categorize the respondents into three types on the base of shopping orientation, and then it categorize the same respondents into five types on the base of shopping motivation. The effort was made to explore the variation between each group of consumers differentiated on the base of the two taxonomies. Besides, it also probes for the correlation between each dimension of shopping orientation, shopping motivation, and the patronage behavior. The result enable the identification of three distinctive shopper types based on the shopping orientation: (1) the apathetic shoppers, (2) the moderate shoppers, (3) the active shoppers, and differentiate five fairly distinct shopper types based on the shopping motivation of convenience stores:(1) the routine shoppers (2) the special buyers (3) the light users (4) the heavy users and (5) the occasional shoppers. The result of cross analysis of the two taxonomies indicate that the main customers of convenience stores are likely to be “active shoppers”, they have shopping confidence, like to shop with friends and sharing shopping information with them. They also like to shop where people or clerk know them .The motivations of patronizing a convenience store are “occasional needs”,” anticipated utility”, “trying new products”, and “buying special” in order of intensity, the customers have a higher intensity of need for new products in the categories of beverages, nibble snacks, commodity, and publication. Finally the study propose some Practical managerial suggestions for proprietors to form related marketing strategies.
Castro, João Manuel Pinto e. "Relationship marketing and consumer behavior in fast-moving consumer goods." Doctoral thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/714.
Full textA presente dissertação investiga a adequação dos conceitos do marketing relacional aos mercados de bens de consumo correntes. Os adeptos do marketing relacional incitam as empresas a focalizarem os seus esforços de marketing na retenção dos seus clientes mais valiosos. Esta recomendação decorre da crença de que a fidelização é uma forma mais eficaz de assegurar o crescimento de uma marca do que a penetração. O marketing relacional emergiu no contexto do marketing de serviços, mas mais recentemente o seu âmbito alargou-se ao ponto de alguns autores o considerarem um novo paradigma do marketing relevante para qualquer empresa em qualquer tipo de mercado. O interesse pelos conceitos do marketing relacional cresceu designadamente entre os fabricantes de bens de consumo correntes empenhados em superar as limitações das tradicionais abordagens do marketing de massa. Todavia, em oposição à teoria dominante do comportamento de compra do consumidor de Howard-Sheth, a teoria NBD-Dirichlet do comportamento de compra prediz que, em situações de compra repetida, essas estratégias de marketing relacional não produzirão os resultados esperados. Na realidade, tendo em conta evidência empírica segundo a qual: a) o que basicamente distingue as marcas líderes das restantes numa dada categoria é o facto de ela ser adquirida por mais consumidores; b) a lealdade não varia muito de marca para marca; e c) as marcas com maiores taxas de penetração também registam maior lealdade, os programas concebidos para fidelizar os clientes correm o risco de ou não atingirem o seu propósito ou atingirem-no por um custo absurdamente elevado. Por essas razões, pretendíamos testar a hipótese segundo a qual os programas de marketing relacional são incapazes de gerar ganhos de quota de mercado para bens de grande consumo. Por outro lado, caso fosse possível identificar algum impacto positivo, gostaríamos de saber que variáveis comportamentais específicas seriam responsáveis por esse efeito. Tendo obtido autorização de um grande fabricante de bens de consumo correntes a operar em Portugal para examinar os dados de compra de um grupo de teste e de um grupo de controlo no contexto de um programa de marketing relacional, foi-nos possível xiv acompanhar os seus comportamentos respectivos ao longo de um período de dez trimestres. As variáveis de comportamento retidas foram a quota de mercado, a taxa de penetração, a taxa de compra, a frequência de compra e o gasto por ocasião de compra. A análise foi conduzida em três níveis distintos: empresa, divisão e produto. Assim, foi estabelecida uma comparação entre o comportamento no grupo de teste e o comportamento no grupo de controlo. As diferenças entre os dois grupos conduziram à criação de um novo conjunto de séries cronológicas cuja evolução foi analisada com o objectivo de verificar: a) Se seria possível identificar qualquer evolução positiva no grupo de teste em relação ao grupo de controlo durante o período escrutinado; e b) Se tais efeitos poderiam ser atribuídos ao programa de marketing relacional. Resumidamente, a conclusão fundamental é que, a fazer fé nos dados disponíveis, não é possível concluir que o programa de marketing relacional investigado tenha tido um impacto positivo irrefutável sobre as variáveis de compra analisadas, seja ao nível da empresa, das divisões ou dos produtos. Embora estes resultados não permitam concluir que o marketing relacional é absolutamente ineficaz em mercados de bens de grande consumo, eles contribuem no entanto para reforçar as suspeitas levantadas por alguns autores relativamente à aplicabilidade dos princípios do marketing relacional à compra repetida de baixo envolvimento, na medida em que parecem confirmar as predições da teoria NBD-Dirichlet do comportamento de compra. Decorrem daqui importantes consequências para a teoria do marketing e a prática da gestão, bem como para futuras investigações neste domínio.