Transitional stage of life cycle, adolescence is characterized by a period of identity construction. As a means of transmitting a message on self to the others, symbolic consumption participates in identity construction of young people of 12-18 years old. In order to optimize the advertising...

Phase transitoire du cycle de vie, l’adolescence se caractérise par une période de construction de l’identité. En permettant aux individus de transmettre un message sur soi aux autres, la consommation symbolique participe à la construction identitaire des 12-18 ans. Afin d’optimiser...

Marketing managers and researchers have had a long-standing interest in understanding the onset of new patterns of consumer behavior, but they have had few theoretical and methodological tools for studying the onset and stability of consumption patterns over the course of a person's life. The...

Marketing managers and researchers have had a long-standing interest in understanding the onset of new patterns of consumer behavior, but they have had few theoretical and methodological tools for studying the onset and stability of consumption patterns over the course of a person's life. The...