The compensatory consumption thesis states that men who experience anxieties in living up to American ideals of manhood in their everyday lives as workers and husbands use consumption as a means to escape these pressures. Masculine consumption, in this view, is a form of rebellion against...

Purpose – Consumers increasingly experience and value services as elements of a larger constellation of mutually facilitating, complementary, and supporting services. A service constellation is a combination of multiple interdependent services – often produced by multiple specialized service...