A look at contemporary Chinese consumer behaviour, how its cultural influences separate it from the West and how marketers and businesses can harness the natural strengths to succeed there Tom Doctoroff, the guiding force of advertising giant J. Walter Thompson's (JWT) China ope…
Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological dete…
The historical link between marketing and markets, prevalent until the 1960s, has given way to the view of marketing as a portable set of tools applicable to markets and non-markets alike. By re-establishing the connection between the two, this book examines the argument that ma…
Designed for advanced MBA and doctoral courses in Consumer Behavior and Customer Satisfaction, this is the definitive text on the meaning, causes, and consequences of customer satisfaction. It covers every psychological aspect of satisfaction formation, and the contents are appl…
Every human on earth relies on word of mouth to make buying decisions. Yet, fewer than 1% of companies have an actual strategy for generating these crucial customer conversations. The key to activating customer chatter is to give them something to tell a story about. Companies m…
Advanced Customer Analytics provides a clear guide to the specific analytical challenges faced by the retail sector. The book covers the nature and scale of data obtained in transactions, relative proximity to the consumer and the need to monitor customer behaviour across multip…
In an era where many believe Big Data has rendered human perception and observation 'old-school' or passe, Martin Lindstrom shows that mining and matching technological data with up-close psychological insight creates the ultimate snapshot of who we really are and what we really…
Takes a theoretical approach through the presentation of four empirical Danish case studies alongside data gathered from the wider European context. This title is suitable for sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, and policy makers and researchers in the fields …
"Commodification" refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the coffin industry, the conversion of preacher into salesmen and the globalizati…