EFFECT OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT ON CONSUMERS’ BUYING BEHAVIOR By FIREW KIFLE GUDERO Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Jimma University Jimma‚ Ethiopia July 2001 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE May‚ 2009 COPY RIGHT BY FIREW KIFLE GUDERO MAY 2009 THE EFFECT OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT ON CONSUMERS’ BUYING BEHAVIOR Thesis Approved: Dr
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huge amount is involved in such a purchase. 2. Societal Risk: The risk of the purchase not being approved by the friends/family of the consumer. This risk can be minimized by making a purchase strategy. Initially the consumer should fix the evaluation parameters which in this case are the Looks‚ Functions‚ Size and Price of the refrigerator. Then the consumer should gather information about the different refrigerators available in the market through Brochures‚ online research‚ expert reviews‚ salesmen
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the consumer society we live in? The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characteristic for our century. Most American people consider themselves the most prosperous and most free people in the world. Unfortunately‚ not everything is what it seems to be because of consumerism. It is a cultural cycle that whittles away America’s intellectual prosperity. Consumerism itself is defined by the spending habits of the nation’s middle and upper classes. According to Juliet Schor‚ the consumer culture
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CHAPTER 1 QUESTION 1: Explain the concept of the 80/20 rule and why it is important to marketers. The 80/20 rule of marketing is derived from the broader Pareto Principle concept introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906. Pareto noted that the majority of wealth in a free market economy is concentrated within a relatively small group of people -- roughly 20 percent of the population. Importance of rule 80/20 to marketers: Marketing investment: relates to how money is spent on advertising
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CHAPTER 4 Consumer Motivation 1. Key Concepts Innate needs Acquired needs • Consumers have both innate and acquired needs. Give examples of each kind of need and show how the same purchase can serve to fulfill either or both kinds of needs. • Specify both innate and acquired needs that would be useful bases for developing promotional strategies for: o global positioning systems o sunglasses with built-in earphones and an MP3 player o recruiting
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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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1. Introduction Consumers have a number of abiding images of themselves. Those self-images are very closely associated with personal characteristics‚ memories and experiences which are determinants of the influences of self-reference and involvement on consumer behavior. Marketers have long tried to appeal to consumers in terms of self-reference and involvement‚ because according to Bettman‚ Capon and Lutz. consumers combine involvement and self-reference with information about product attributes
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may be defined as the “amount of satisfaction derived from a commodity or service at a particular time”. Assumptions: • UH:\Games.exetility can be measured. • Marginal Utility of money remains constant • No change in income of the consumer‚ his taste & fashion to be constant • No substitute • Independent marginal utility of each unit of commodity Utility Characteristics: • Utility is subjective/not measurable • Utility is variable • Utility is different
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will make them feel better. This "passion" becomes a powerful force that makes people make some unwise decisions in their life. The money consumers spend on these goods could be going to the ever-surmounting needs for health care‚ poverty help‚ or other things that would help the society as a whole. This is why America is the prime example of a capitalistic consumer society and not a socialistic country. People want things for themselves before anyone else. All cultures need consumerism to survive‚
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The Indian Consumer The middle class male consumer The middle class of India is for whom most of the advertising is targeted. Even in the lower middle class‚ consumer products like biscuits‚ talcum powder‚ hair oil‚ hair cream‚ toilet soaps‚ leather foot ware‚ casual foot ware‚ wrist watches‚ quartz watches etc. are purchased. To get a much better understanding of the middle class “male” head of the family‚ consider the following characteristics: Security Seeking: The middle class
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