Purpose – The purpose is to examine the behaviors of consumers engaged in fan activity and determine if there are attitudinal and behavioral characteristics common across the differing fan subcultures. Design/methodology/approach – The characteristics affecting fan behavior are examined...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for the behaviors of consumers engaged in fan activity and test to see if that model simulates the movement of consumers among the proposed levels of fan behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – Support for the proposed model is...

Explains how little attention has traditionally been given to the stage of Problem Recognition, one of the five stages of the decision process evaluated by John Dewey, finding this lack of information even more ironic when it is remembered that a purchase will not occur unless a problem has been...

The Marketing Scales Handbook series is the longest-running set of books that provide reviews of multi-item survey measures that have been used in scholarly studies of consumer behavior. This is the ninth volume of the classic series provides reviews of 433 measures reported in top marketing...

This tenth volume in the long-running series has reviews 402 new consumer-related measurement scales that were reported in top marketing journal articles published in 2016 and 2017. Each review provides the scale items as well as information regarding the scale's origin, previous users, and...