today, using counterfeits is remarkably common in clothing industry. on this basis, present paper is conducted in clothing industry at tehran due to the impact of counterfeit on brand equity of original products’. it is a descriptive research. to achieve research aims, a sample consisting of 384 consumers in tehran who bought counterfeits deliberately were selected. to analyze data and to test ...

This study aims to segment the market based on demographical, psychological, and behavioral variables, and seeks to investigate their relationship with green consumer behavior. In this research, self-organizing maps are used to segment and to determine the features of green consumer behavior. This was a survey type of research study in which eight variables were selected from the demographical,...

the overall purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of personality attributes as predictors of consumer behavior in contrast to traditional demographic variables in the digital environment. new variables were needed to replace the traditional ones. this research evaluated three groups of consumer behaviors and examined personality and demographic variables. the primary data colle...

consumer behavior is the most important issues in microeconomics. in neoclassical economics it is assumed that in order to reach the goals, human behavior is based on absolute rationality. while, simon criticizes the paradigm assumptions of neoclassic school and introduces the bounded rationality. since, because of uncertainty and lack of access to enough information, human faces with limited c...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although the influence of identity on consumer behavior has been documented in many streams of literature, the absence of a consistent definition of identity and of generally accepted principles regarding the drivers of identity-based behavior complicates comparisons across these literatures. To resolve that problem, we propose a simple but inclusive definition of identity...

Consumer behavior continued to attract additional researchers and publication outlets from 1993 through 1996. Both general interest and domain-specific scholarly contributions are discussed, along with limitations and suggested areas for future research. A concluding section observes that the integrity of consumer research is unnecessarily compromised by the failure of the major scholarly assoc...

Critics within the consumer behavior field have consistently debated three fundamental issues about the field’s defining properties and goals: (1) whether consumer behavior should be an independent discipline, (2) what is (and is not) consumer behavior, and (3) whether our field should be interdisciplinary. Taking the perspective of the sociology of science leads us to conclude that (1) consume...

consumer purchasing decisions relating to foreign products are influenced by economic, psychological and sociological factors. this study attempts to relate such rarely studied variables as animosity and ethnocentrism to concepts taken from consumer behavior which are brand image and purchase intention. consequently, this study attempts to provide insights into how brand image, consumer ethnoce...

The concept of consumer confusion has gained a considerable attention in consumer behavior literature during recent years. However,it is considered as a relatively new concept in marketing, particularly in businesses that provide intangible products such as tourism. This study aimed to investigate factors that potentially influence consumer confusion proneness in purchasing outbound package tou...