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States that reference price has emerged as a central feature in consumer decisions. The goal of this study was to explore the contribution of mode of payment to the formulation of personal reference prices (what one believes to be a fair price for a product) and reservation prices (the highest...
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Reports on the use of subjective personal introspection. Offers a brief overview of subjective personal introspection and then describes the technique used to inform an ongoing piece of research that is being conducted into popular music consumption. Concludes by assessing the usefulness of the...
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Postmodern conditions and re‐evaluations of marketing theory are prompting a re‐consideration of marketing strategies and methodologies. This paper is concerned with research issues arising from these changes and uses the case of retailing financial services as an illustration. Groups of...
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domains: how do consumers categorise different products and services?; decision rules: what search strategies and evaluative … criteria are employed for each category?; values: what core beliefs underpin different decision rules?; construct complexity …: how discriminating are consumer’s decision rules and values?; and construct commonalities: what are the similarities and …
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Considers the history and current position of interpretive consumer research within the marketing paradigm. It focuses on the conflict that has developed between the positivist tradition and the relatively new interpretive approach. In doing so it considers the merits of interpretive research in...
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Presents two relatively new (to marketing) qualitative research techniques, “narrative theory” and “dimensional analysis”, and highlights the contribution they may have for consumer research. Narrative analysis focuses on features, plots and configurations, whereas dimensional analysis...
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The need to explore consumer reactions to any form of marketing is central to the marketing concept and this paper reports part of an industry‐funded project to investigate how consumers interact with direct marketing. The programme was qualitative, based on both individual depth interviews...
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Focuses on the exploration of consumer experience and attitudes towards online interaction within virtual communities. One of the emerging e‐commerce business models, the consumer to consumer “community” model, is relatively new but underpins the framework for the research conducted. The...
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direct marketing approaches are evaluated. Sensitivity to changes and differences in customer decision‐loyalty type are … explored from the perspective of building high value customer relationships, where decision‐loyalty type is considered to be a …
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Describes the research and findings of a project aimed at how UK companies use customer information in their marketing today. Today’s technologies allow companies to collect enormous volumes of data and manipulate it in many different ways to bring out otherwise unforeseen areas of knowledge....
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