1st Edition
European Consumers in the Digital Era Implications of Technology, Media and Culture on Consumer Behavior
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Instead of Introduction: The general circumstances of digital consumer behaviour in Europe
Małgorzata BARTOSIK-PURGAT, Nela FILIMON
PART I. TRENDS IN CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR IN DIGITAL CENTURIES
Chapter 1. Changes in Consumer Behaviour in the Digital Age
Agata LINKIEWICZ, Małgorzata BARTOSIK-PURGAT
Chapter 2. Who is a Consumer in the Digital Era? Still a Consumer, or a Prosumer?
Joanna BEDNARZ
Chapter 3. Technological Innovations and Consumer Behaviour
Tomasz GRZEGORCZYK
Chapter 4. E-commerce in Light of Digital Technology Development: A Consumer Perspective
Małgorzata BARTOSIK-PURGAT, Barbara JANKOWSKA
PART II. DIGITAL CONSUMERS IN EUROPE
Chapter 5. Digital Consumers in Finland: Digital Customer Journey Changes Industries
Jaana KIVIVUORI, Monica TAMMINEN
Chapter 6. Digital Consumers in Germany
Michael HINNER
Chapter 7. Inside the Mind of Italian Digital Consumers
Alberto FRIGERIO, Margarita GALAGAN
Chapter 8. Social Media and Mobile Tools in Consumers` Decisions of Polish Consumers
Małgorzata BARTOSIK-PURGAT, Ewa MIŃSKA-STRUZIK
Chapter 9. Understanding Consumers’ Information Power in the Digital Marketplace: the Case of Russia
Maria SMIRNOVA, Ksenia GOLOVACHEVA, Olga ALKANOVA, Karina BOGATYREVA
Chapter 10. Digital consumption in Spain and the Internet of Things
Nela FILIMON, Francesc FUSTÉ-FORNÉ
Instead of Conclusions: Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on European consumers` behaviour: forecasts and predictions
Małgorzata BARTOSIK-PURGAT, Nela FILIMON
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Biography
Małgorzata Bartosik-Purgat is a Professor in the Department of International Management at Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland. Her research addresses cultural aspects in international business, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural consumer behavior, consumer ethnocentrism, acceptance of innovations in the consumers' decisions, and significance of new media in marketing and personal communication. She is a member of EIBA – European International Business Association, IAIR – International Academy for Intercultural Research, ABC – Association for Business Communication, SIETAR Poland – Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research, IT&FA – International Trade and Finance Association, and AIB – Academy of International Business. She is an author and co-author of publications in International Journal of Emerging Markets, European Journal of International Management, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, and Economics and Business Review.
Nela Filimon is an Associate Professor – Serra Húnter Fellow in the Department of Business at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. Her research interests are related to consumer behaviour, market research, social media, wellbeing and ICTs, sociology of consumption, marketing in cultural industries, and quantitative research methods. She has published her research in international journals such as Social Science Computer Review, Journal of Cultural Economics, Poetics, Advances in Sociology Research, Sociological Review, Sustainability, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Regional Science Inquiry, and Economics and Business Review, among others.
