Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine country perceptions in China from the point of view of the personality concept. Design/methodology/approach – A country personality scale developed in a Western country was adapted to the Chinese social context and used to position 11...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that explain cross-national differences in country-of-origin consumer perceptions. Design/methodology/approach – This is a study using a drop-off and pick-up survey among male responders. The final sample size comprised 202 consumers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an in‐depth examination of country‐of‐origin (COO) perceptions of consumers in a multinational setting. It shows how explanatory factors like demographics, familiarity with a country's products, purchase behaviour and psychological...

Purpose – The country‐of‐origin literature has focused mainly on tangible products and has neglected largely intangible services and products such as the arts. The objective of this study is to examine the impact that country of origin may have on consumer perceptions of artistic and...

Purpose – This paper aims to show that the congruency between the source of a product being evaluated and the commonly held perceptions of that product's association with a country of origin (COO) leads to a more positive evaluation of that product. Design/methodology/approach – This is an...

This article presents the results of a survey of 209 Mainland Chinese male consumers carried out in the late 1990s. In this study, consumer judgements of products made in both highly and newly industrialised countries were obtained in a multi‐attribute and multi‐dimensional context. As...