1st Edition

The Influence of Values on Consumer Behaviour The value compass

By Erik Kostelijk Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Substantial progress has been made in the conceptualization of values within psychology. The importance of values is also acknowledged in marketing, and companies use values to describe the core associations of their brand. Yet despite this, the values concept has received limited attention in marketing theory. The Influence of Values on Consumer Behaviour aims to bridge the gap between the... Read more

Introduction 1. Introduction Part I Literature Review 2. Values, Brands, and Culture Part II. Values and the Consumer 3. Development of the Value Compass 4. Description of the Value Compass Part III. Values and Branding 5. Brand Values and Brand Choice 6. Value Congruence 7. Brand Values Versus Brand Personality Part IV. The Value Compass and Culture 8. Cross-cultural Validity of the Value Compass Conclusion 9. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Erik Kostelijk is Senior Lecturer of Marketing at the International Business School of the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Next to that, he works as Project Leader Research for Marklinq, the research institute of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands, and he has been engaged in teaching and research projects in a number of other countries, among which China, the USA, Lithuania, France, and Italy. By doing market research on image and market potential, he has advised many profit and not-for-profit organizations on their positioning strategy.