Using ethnographic interviews and Greimasian semiotics, this study explores second-generation ethnic consumers’ perceptions of physical shopping environments from a cultural identity perspective. It reveals how second-generation ethnic consumers make decisions about where to shop for...

This research focuses on second-generation female consumers' relationship to cosmetics. Cosmetics consumption carries individual, cultural, and social dimensions for second-generation immigrants. It enables them to individually manage their cultural identities. this research is grounded on 31...

This research focuses on "second generation" young female adults' cosmetics consumption, and explores their specific ethnicity. The results of an ethnographic study and phenomenological interviews are developed. While mothers distinguish between two worlds (here and there), second generation...

Amongst the collaborative consumptions arising nowadays, sharing is one of the most widespread systems. Sharing traditionally owned objects such as cars has certainly affected the consumer-possessions relationship. This paper shows the role of design in both identity and brand community...

70% of the logos of the 40 largest stocks of Euronext Paris that have been modified in the past 20 years have become more baroque. It is a symptom of the baroquisation trend of consumption, which put brands in the quandary between following the trends of market taste and adjusting the aesthetic...

Relationship marketing is based on the assumption of the customers’ commitment. This commitment may be multidimensional, with an affective dimension and a calculative one. Commitment is shown to be linked to trust. Relationship marketing has not paid a lot of attention to psychological...

Prevailing research works on brand as a person metaphor highlights the existence of brand-sexual associations. However, the impact of such attributions on brand categorization did not receive any attention. This paper is an attempt to explore the importance of brand-sex on consumer’s brand...