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Purchasing Intentions and Behavior
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Dedication This work is dedicated t
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Abstract This research is a study o
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List of Acronyms CE - Consumer Ethn
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2.2.3 The Brand as Providing a Func
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5.0 Introduction ..................
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7.5.11 Banks (ATMs) ...............
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A1.9 Summary ......................
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Appendix VII. Main Consumer Survey
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List of Tables Table 5. 1 Pre-teste
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Table 6. 46 Chi-Square Tests of Dif
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1.1 Background of Study Once the Ch
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The role that culture plays in gene
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Understanding how to enhance brand
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� Chapter 8 -Summary, Implication
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chips, and ice cream tubs). In Cell
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2. Managerial and Consumer Perspect
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"non-rational" elements as this alt
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5.7 Expert Interviews Marketing exp
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5.7.1 Results of the Pre-test of Ma
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esult in high internal validity but
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6.3 Data Analyses Data analyses wer
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19 When a new brand of an existing
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13 price for an unknown brand. My f
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Table 6. 4 Tests of importance for
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Table 6. 5 ANOVAs Between Ethnicity
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Table 6. 6 Summary of Fisher's LSD
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Table 6. 7 Two Sample Test of Hypot
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1.1.1 Conservatism: Ethnocentrism i
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Proposition # Specific Research Que
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Proposition 1.1.2a, which states th
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Proposition 1.1.3, which states tha
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Propositions Specific Research Ques
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We argued that a "conservative" con
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important service component, there
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member/loyalty cards more often tha
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Consumers from the key cities studi
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Table 6. 16 Pair-wise tests of sign
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Table 6. 17 Frequency of Purchase (
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Table 6. 19 Frequency of Purchase (
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Based on Cramer's V, the strength o
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GRQ 2.0: Brand choice and ethnicity
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four categories there is a very str
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Table 6. 24 Percentage of urban con
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Brands by category Beijing Shanghai
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small to medium effect with respect
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12 categories for Chongqing consume
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Beijing Shanghai Chongqing Guangzho
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table highlights that quality overa
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the least frequent purchases. Perfu
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Table 6. 30 Actual Percentage of Co
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The general research question askin
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Table 6. 33 Means of Importance of
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Using Cramer's V to measure the str
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Specific Research Questions Proposi
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Table 6. 37 Consumer Knowledge of B
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Brand % Correct Country of origin C
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With respect to Leconte, many respo
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To determine if those who recently
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H0: Are those urban consumers who b
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H0: Are those urban consumers who b
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no differences between COO and COM
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H0: Are consumers more aware of COM
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Table 6.41 summarizes results by in
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Statistically significant differenc
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% Correct responses Brand/Ethnicity
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% Correct responses Brand/Ethnicity
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Table 6. 45 Two-way Contingency Tab
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Table 6. 46 Chi-Square Tests of Dif
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Table 6. 47 Two-way Contingency Tab
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are misinformed as to the correct C
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Marketers, moreover, need to be war
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definitive nature of the survey que
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With respect to the fourth dimensio
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Population density likely accounts
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2006; Wakefield and Inman, 2003; En
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7.4 Brand Choice (RQ 2.0) This sect
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Table 7. 3 Reasons for purchasing f
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influenced. Melewar et al (2004) si
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Table 7. 7 Overall brand knowledge
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more than 70 imported or joint vent
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domestic brands and partly because
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8. Summary, Implications, and Concl
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8.1.4. Actual purchase frequency
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their segmentation and targeting st
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Ideally the main person responsible
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counterparts; yet, the interviewee
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promotions and marketing, differenc
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8.5.8 Situational factors impacting
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Anderson, D.R., Sweeney, D.J. & Wil
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Bettman, J.R. (1970) Information pr
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Chen, C.H. and Zimitat, C. (2006) U
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Czinkota, M.R. and Ronkainen, I.A.
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Ehrenberg, A., Goodhardt, G. & Barw
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Goffman, E. (1967) Interaction Ritu
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Hofstede, G. (2001) Culture's Conse
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Insch G.S. (2003) The Impact of Cou
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Kluckhohn, C. and F.L. Strodtbeck (
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Li, J.J. and Su, C. (2007) How Face
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[Accessed 3 April 2010). McShane, S
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innovation diffusion: The case of J
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Perrin, R. and Gong, Y. (2010) Uniq
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Samiee, S. (1994) Custumer evaluati
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Su, Y., Xu, D. & Phan, P.H. (2008)
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Verlegh, P.W. and Steenkamp, J.B. (
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Wu, K. (1998) Sociology of Educatio
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Appendix I. The Chinese Marketing E
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Confucius was not particularly inte
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China from their bases in Manchuria
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Figure A1. 1 Administrative Divisio
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Table A1. 1 Population and Its Comp
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levels of domestic and internationa
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Table A1. 4 GDP and Population Dens
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middle south regions and below nati
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world’s third-largest economy). B
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Table A1. 6 Year to Year Comparison
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Table A1. 7 Dimensions and Measures
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internet access exists but some cen
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certifications, such as a license.
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Table A1. 8 Business Monitor Intern
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China’s political environment is
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and makers to reduce the stigma of
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making comparisons between differen
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2007). Each of the populations in t
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Walmart in 2007, who explained that
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among others as well as China's own
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Table A2. 2 Traditional Media Expen
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A3.3. Q3-2 Do Chinese consumers try
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cigarettes."; "Older people prefer
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a bias toward foreign brands due to
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guarantee or promise of good qualit
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Table A3. 2 Synopsis of interview r
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A3.6. Q3-5 Are Chinese consumers sl
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Table A3. 3 Combined responses to Q
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products even for foreign brands bu
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A3.10. Q3-9 Do Chinese consumers ge
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deposit or some stores don't allow
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their related product categories. P
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agreement that Beijing consumers ar
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administration and white-collar wor
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trying new products). Thus, consump
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A3.14. Q4-3 Would you consider urba
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Response No. of expert mentions* Ye
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Experts also unanimously agreed tha
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Strategy lever Useful Insights Pric
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awareness of brand names, relative
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Appendix IV. Research Consent Forms
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A4.2 Research Consent Form - Depth
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Appendix V. Survey of Consumer Bran
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Bottled Water 矿泉水或纯净水
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Ice Cream Tubs 冰淇淋浴盆 Yes
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Potato Chips (Crisps) 薯片(脆片
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Household Appliances (refrigerators
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Airlines 航空公司 1. Singapore
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Appendix VI. Specification of brand
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11. Banks (including ATMs) 中国
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消费者购买行为调查 请根
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C 对于以下品牌产品当中,
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C 对于以下品牌产品当中,
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品牌之间的关系 如下所示,
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品牌之间的关系 如下所示,
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Appendix VIII. Main Consumer Behavi
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III. Relationship to Brands C Speci
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COO/COM 品牌之间的关系 3. To
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COO/COM 品牌之间的关系 11. B
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3.2. Would you consider consumers i
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potential sampling (Type I) error b
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literature where consumers consider
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esponsibility and argued that socia