Building on multiplicity theory, this conceptual paper presents a revised theoretical perspective on the marketing discipline, contrasts it with the prevailing perspective on marketing, and shows why
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This paper explores focused co-creation, one of three broad business model approaches to co-creation. The paper briefly outlines these approaches and then examines focused co-creation in Burberry,
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Consumers often are positively biased in their preferences for domestic products to foreign alternatives. Previous research has established consumer ethnocentrism and national identification as
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Understanding the richness and complexity of consumers’ memory structures for a country requires the identification of strong, favourable and unique country associations. This paper extends
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This paper investigates the impact of perceived brand globalness (PBG) on word-of-mouth and purchase intentions in the context of a two-alternative, suboptimal regrettable purchase, where the
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Recent studies reveal that consumers respond favourably to “organic plus” products with additional ethical attributes. The aim of the current study is to explore whether consumers would notice
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The economic damage of environmental pollution is remarkable. Consequently, there is a need for companies to consider environmental issues in product development and to understand why consumers adopt
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Really-new products (RNPs) create new product categories for consumers. Consumers use their knowledge of similar categories to comprehend and evaluate RnPs. This paper shows that, in addition to
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