Love for Luxury, Preference for Counterfeits –A Qualitative Study in Counterfeit Luxury Consumption in China

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...

Opportunity for luxury brands in China

Purchasing Motivations Toward Counterfeit Luxury Goods on E-marketplaces

This research is designed to study consumers’ purchasing attitudes to counterfeit luxury goods on electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces). And two research hypotheses are proposed in this research. Based on data analysis of 243 samples, this study explores the dimensions of consumer attitudes (morality and law, accessibility, burden-bearing, function effectiveness, economical efficiency) and m...

Images of Success and the Preference for Luxury

This research examines the impact of media depictions of success (or failure) on consumers’ desire for luxury brands. In a pilot study and three additional studies, we demonstrate that reading a story about a similar/successful other, such as a business major from the same university, increases consumers’ expectations about their own future wealth, which in turn increases their desire for luxur...

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 ...