UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA; FACULTY OF BUSINESS DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR THEORY AND PRACTICE (MKT 201) COURSE OUTLINE SEMESTER TWO‚ 2011 Course Instructor: Dr R. Makgosa Email: Makgosa@mopipi.ub.bw; Office: 245/ 017; Office Telephone no: 3554060 Class Time: Tuesday 09.00; Thursday 08:00-10:00 Venue: 245-042. Consultation hours: Tueday 14:00-16:00; Thursday: 14:00-16:00 Nature of the Course Contemporary approaches to business emphasize the importance of adopting a
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Table of contents Executive summary 2 Introduction 4 1. Consumer behavior 5 2. Perception 5 2.1Definition of perception 5 2.2 Elements of perception 6 A. Sensation 6 B. The absolute threshold 6 C. Just noticeable difference to consumer behavior: 6 D. Subliminal perception 7 2.3 Factors influencing perception 7 1) Characteristics of the perceiver (internal factors): 7 2) Characteristics of the target (external factors): 9 3) Characteristics of the situation: 9
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2.4 Consumer Behaviour & Holidays In this task you consider how consumers approach buying a holiday. You look at some of the theoretical approaches in this area and apply them to the purchase of holidays. Learning Objectives The project will help you: * To recognise the concept of the business organisation operating within the parameters of a changing external environment. * To describe a range of theories related to consumer buyer behaviour and their role in analysing markets
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basic necessity rather they tend to add value to our personalities and give non verbal information regarding our backgrounds‚ lifestyles‚ attitudes‚ preferences and even represent our personal identity (Tam‚K.K.‚ p1) The modern era of marketing has identified the importance of branding as one of the key elements to develop competitive advantage. With the rising technological development the products and services being produced are moving towards homogeneity in terms of product quality‚ distribution
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Understanding the consumer attitudes and behavior is one of the key factors for an organization to successfully tap the business opportunities in the Philippines. This aspect is more crucial especially during crisis periods when there are number of changes in consumer attitudes and behaviors. The marketing managers and advertisers need to know and consider these changes while developing their promotional plans and media-mixes. In the short term‚ behavioral dimensions maybe even more important than
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general direction or movement as a style begins to be accepted such as the revival of high-waist jeans made from a light denim which also were worn in the 60-70s. 11. State some differences between the positivist and interpretivist approaches to consumer research. For each type of inquiry give examples of product dimensions what would be more usefully explored using that type of research over the other. Positivist assume the nature of reality is objective‚ tangible‚ and single‚ while the interprevisit
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Consumer Behavior Kaplan University Unit 5 Project The strategic benefit of stimulus generalization doesn’t outweigh the possible disadvantages in strategic marketing. I think that many times people want to have choices in the products that they use on a regular basis. According to our book‚ classical conditioning learning depends not only on repetition but also on the ability of individuals to generalize. Without this‚ not much learning would take place (Schiffman‚ L. & Kanuk‚ L. pg. 203)
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[pic] IQRA UNIVERSITY “Comparative analysis of consumer preferences for women clothing brands in Pakistan” Foreign brands Vs Local brand Consumer Behavior Research Project Report Submitted to: Shahnawaz Adil PREPARED BY: Jawaria Vohra 4533 (javeria.vohra@hotmail.com) Komal Sarwar 4172 ( komi.sarwar@hotmail.com) Mehwish fareed 4266 (m4mehwish32@gmail.com ) Huma sohail (humasohail90@gmail.com) Mariam Shahid (mariam-marry@hotmail.com) CHAPTER 1
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it can be represented in many ways and forms. Society has changed gradually over the courses of the years through education‚ technology‚ and fashion. There are major and minor changes that go on in society everyday the effects people in a good or bad way. Education has changed over the past decades for students that were unable to receive education are now able to obtain it and receive a bachelor or masters in their choice of field. In the 1950’s colored children were unable to attend a white school
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strategy. Keywords: Working wife‚ Perception‚ Norm‚ Schwartz Value‚ Household Purchase Decision‚ Family Decision Making Process 1. Introduction Family is an important unit of analysis in consumer decision-making field (Xia et al.‚ 2006)‚ but the vast interest in family as unit of analysis in research has not happened only until recently (So and Yao‚ 2006). Family is a main reference group when individual family member is
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