Understanding Consumer Decision Making

Understanding Consumer Decision Making

Author: Thomas J. Reynolds

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1135693161

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This edited volume will help business and academic researchers understand the means-end approach to understanding consumers. This is a qualitative marketing research method to gain customer insight into decision making.


Understanding Consumer Behavior and Consumption Experience

Understanding Consumer Behavior and Consumption Experience

Author: Rajagopal

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2015-01-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1466675195

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Abstract: "This book discusses the indispensable value of understanding consumer activities and the crucial role they play in developing successful marketing strategies by focusing on concepts such as consumer perceptions, consumption culture, and the influence of information technology"--Provided by publisher


Understanding the Consumer

Understanding the Consumer

Author: Isabelle Szmigin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-03-11

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1412933560

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Understanding the Consumer brings together marketing theory and practice in a truly consumer-centric approach. It challenges the lip service usually paid to this concept and demonstrates that a fundamental understanding of the consumer is critical to the future of effective marketing. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in the literature it reconceptualizes how consumers respond and act in the marketplace with particular attention to: - relationships with suppliers, products and brands - their innovative, creative and resistant behaviour - the complexity and unpredictability of their consumption behaviour - their increasing need to get closer to production. The book challenges existing functionally driven marketing thinking and shows how a more holistic approach to the marketplace will drive better theory and practice. It combines a jargon-free approach to the subject with an illustration of the relevant theory using practical, topical examples from the marketplace as well as drawing on other business related disciplines including sociology and economics to support its arguments.


Understanding the Hospitality Consumer

Understanding the Hospitality Consumer

Author: Alastair Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1136351175

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'Understanding the Hospitality Consumer' presents a unique perspective on consumer behaviour in the hospitality sector. It seeks to focus on the role of consumption in hospitality and to investigate our understanding of its place in the contemporary industry. Taking the view that successful marketing demands focusing on the customer, this text concentrates on understanding and determining customer needs, relevant factors in consumer buying behaviour and the effectiveness of today's marketing techniques. Using industry based case studies and examples 'Understanding the Hospitality Consumer' : * Introduces and explores the role of consumer behaviour theory in the context of hospitality management * Discusses the principles and research of consumer behaviour and illustrates how they are used in the hospitality industry today * Examines the value of consumer behaviour research as applied to the contemporary hospitality industry * Explores the challenges to traditional approaches to consumption posed by the postmodern hospitality consumer The book's targeted focus and practical application ensures that it is well suited for both students and practising managers in the hospitality field.


Online Consumer Psychology

Online Consumer Psychology

Author: Curtis P. Haugtvedt

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005-03-23

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 1135608105

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Online Consumer Psychology addresses many of the issues created by the Internet and goes beyond the topic of advertising and the Web to include topics such as customization, site design, word of mouth processes, and the study of consumer decision making while online. The theories and research methods help provide greater insight into the processes underlying consumer behavior in online environments. Broken into six sections, this book: focuses on community and looks at the Internet's ability to bring like-minded individuals from around the world into one forum; examines issues related to advertising, specifically click-through rates and advertising content placed within gaming online and wireless networks; provides readers with reasons why consumers customize products and the benefits of customization; discusses the psychological effects of site design; asks the question of whether the Internet empowers consumers to make better decisions; and discusses research tools that can be used online.


Qualitative Marketing Research

Qualitative Marketing Research

Author: Dominika Maison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 0429883382

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This is a perfect guide to understanding the core principles of qualitative marketing research. It presents qualitative marketing research in the broader context of marketing and managerial decisions, consumer psychology and contemporary knowledge about unconscious and automatic processes. Different types of qualitative marketing research methods are examined, from the classic focus group interview (FGI) and individual in-depth interview (IDI), to more cutting-edge methods such as ethnography or bulletin boards, which enable marketing researchers to discover and understand real consumer motivations, needs, values, and attitudes. With numerous international case studies, including PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Nestle, Aviva and Citibank, the book is uniquely practical in its approach. It is vital reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of marketing research, consumer behaviour and consumer psychology.


Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior

Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior

Author: W. Fred van Raaij

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1137544252

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Government policies, marketing campaigns of banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, and consumers' protective actions all depend on assumptions about consumer financial behavior. Unfortunately, many consumers have no or little knowledge of budgeting, financial products, and financial planning. It is therefore important that organizations and market authorities know why consumers spend, borrow, insure, invest, and save for their retirement - or why they do not. Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior provides a systemic economic and behavioral approach to the way people handle their finances. It discusses the different types of financial behaviors consumers may engage in and explores the psychological explanations for their behavior and choices. This exciting new book is essential reading for scholars of marketing, finance, and management; financial professionals; and consumer policy makers.


Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior

Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior

Author: Chkoniya, Valentina

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1799831175

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Anthropology is a science specialized in the study of the past and present of societies, especially the study of humans and human behavior. The disciplines of anthropology and consumer research have long been separated; however, it is now believed that joining them will lead to a more profound knowledge and understanding of consumer behaviors and will lead to further understanding and predictions for the future. Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior is a cutting-edge research publication that examines an anthropological approach to the study of the consumer and as a key role to the development of societies. The book also provides a range of marketing possibilities that can be developed from this approach such as understanding the evolution of consumer behavior, delivering truly personalized customer experiences, and potentially creating new products, brands, and services. Featuring a wide range of topics such as artificial intelligence, food consumption, and neuromarketing, this book is ideal for marketers, advertisers, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, managing directors, consumer psychologists, academicians, social anthropologists, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students.


Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour

Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour

Author: Sigmund A. Wagner

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780415316194

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Through the study of green, environmentally friendly consumers, this book incorporates original, groundbreaking anthropological and cognitive research to examine basic aspects of the workings of the human mind.