An investigation on consumer’s behaviors towards well-known luxury brands

Why Do Consumers Buy Counterfeit Luxury Brands?

Vol. XLVI (April 2009), 247–259 247 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Keith Wilcox is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Baruch College, City University of New York. Hyeong Min Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carey B...

Luxury, Luxury Brand and Luxury Market in India: From Class Consumers to Closet Consumers

The luxury concept has throughout history played an important role in social life by being a clear indicator of knowledge and social class which has not changed at present but only becoming catchier. Today, the demand for luxury brands is ever increasing and brand offering is continuously on the rise.The luxury market is expanding rapidly in India on the back of economic deregulation, fast GDP ...

When symbolism overtakes quality: Materialists consumers disregard product quality when faced with luxury brands

Consumers use extrinsic and intrinsic cues to set preferences and make purchase decisions. However, the extent to which luxury-related extrinsic cues determine consumer preferences and whether the relative weighting of extrinsic vs. intrinsic cues depends on consumers’ values is still unclear. We investigated how luxury vs. non-luxury brands affect consumer preferences, and how this impact is m...

Understanding luxury consumption in China: Consumer perceptions of best-known brands

☆ The authors gratefully acknowledge financial sup Science Foundation of China (08CTQ008), the National China (70832001, 70902017), the Shanghai Pujiang Ta Competitive Research Grant from Hong Kong Polytech authors thank two anonymous reviewers and the gue Megehee, for their insightful comments on content acknowledge the revision suggestions by Alison Lloyd version of this article. ⁎ Correspond...

Opportunity for luxury brands in China