Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Luxury Marketing


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As luxury brands become commonplace, businesses must incorporate more sustainable practices to handle the brands continuous growth. To achieve short-term financial goals, luxury brands employ mass marketing techniques that result in the creation of "masstige" (mass prestige) brands. Sustainable luxury marketing through a cross-cultural perspective requires tailored marketing strategies for luxury brands that emphasize the exclusivity and high quality of their products while integrating eco-friendly practices. Such marketing plans may also resonate with diverse cultural values across business sectors. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Luxury Marketing explores ongoing trends in sustainable luxury marketing using cross-cultural viewpoints. It examines the usage of immersive technologies by luxury brands and their impact on consumer relationships. This book covers topics such as consumer behavior, luxury fashion, and data analysis, and is a useful resource for consultants, policymakers, economists, business owners, sociologists, academicians, scientists, and researchers.




Cross-Cultural Marketing


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Viewing Europe as the centre of intercultural confrontation with its own set of subcultures, Cross-Cultural Marketing analyses the cultural comparison between East and West from a European perspective. Structured in four parts, the textbook explores the cross-cultural approach; a model of cross-cultural marketing strategy; marketing choices and decisions, and cross-cultural marketing challenges. At the end of each part, business cases and intercultural stories pose challenging questions for students’ discussion.




Luxury Marketing


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​ The luxury market has transformed from its traditional conspicuous consumption model to a new experiential luxury sensibility that is marked by a change in how consumers define luxury. In a global context, it is crucial to understand why consumers buy luxury, what they believe luxury is, and how their perception of luxury value impacts their buying behavior. This handbook aims to provide a holistic approach to luxury marketing with respect to the characteristics and the key challenges and opportunities of luxury brand management. Therefore, the multifaceted contributions by authors from different parts of the world will offer both a research and management perspective of luxury marketing and deliver a concentrated body of knowledge with contributions from diverse elements.




Advances in Advertising Research IX


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This book addresses challenges and opportunities in research and management related to new advertising and consumer practices in a converging media society. It specifically relates to the increasing power of consumers in the (digital) marketing process and discusses the challenges this may bring to advertisers. Advances in Advertising Research are published by the European Advertising Academy (EAA). This volume is a selective collection of research presented at the 16th International Conference in Advertising (ICORIA) which was held in Ghent (Belgium) in June 2017. The conference gathered more than 160 participants from over 30 countries all over the world.




Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality


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Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers, affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry – organisational behaviour, and human resource management, and marketing and consumer behaviour. Given the need for delivering superior customer value, understanding different cultures from both demand and supply sides of tourism and hospitality and the impact of culture on these international industries is an essential part of all students’ and practitioners’ learning and development. This book takes a research-based approach critically reviewing seminal cultural theories and evaluating how these influence employee and customer behaviour in service encounters, marketing, and management processes and activities. Individual chapters cover a diverse range of cultural aspects including intercultural competence and intercultural sensitivity, uncertainty and risk avoidance, context in communication, power distance, indulgence and restraint, time orientation, gender, assertiveness, individualism and collectivism, performance orientation, and humane orientation. This book integrates international case studies throughout to show the application of theory, includes self-test questions, activities, further reading, and a set of PowerPoint slides to accompany each chapter. This will be essential reading for all students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners and future managers in the fields of Tourism and Hospitality.




New Perspectives in Luxury Branding


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This collection of key articles offers insights across a range of sectors. Some of the things the book will explain include: - The influence of social media on the building of luxury brands - The effect of the consumption of counterfeit luxury goods on identity - The value of brand extension as a strategy in regards to luxury fashion brands




Cross-Cultural Social Media Marketing


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To increase brand awareness, engagement and revenue, companies are acknowledging the importance of integrating social media marketing in their overall marketing strategy. This book consists of a step-by-step guide in using social media successfully in an ever-growing consumer market, domestically and internationally.




Hispanic Marketing


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Hispanic Marketing: The Evolution of the Latino Consumer focuses on using cultural insights to connect with Hispanic consumers. This fourth edition brings up to date the theories, concepts, and practices that help readers understand Hispanic consumers and marketing communication campaigns across Hispanic segments. Written by leaders in the field of Hispanic marketing, this book uses theories of culture, acculturation, and social identification, among others, to explain Hispanic consumer reactions to products and advertising. It explores cross-cultural values and issues associated with branding, language, and acculturation, and provides the consumer insights required to understand, plan for, and respond to differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic markets and across segmentation. Each chapter includes real-life case studies and distills the key implications for marketers, to ensure students grasp the essential concepts. This fourth edition includes: the introduction of marketing theories that have developed through studies on new and current topics in Hispanic consumer behavior; new topics such as bilingualism, artificial intelligence, cause-related marketing, boycotting behavior, and influencer marketing; 28 all-new case studies; updated figures and tables, including examples of advertisements and conceptual models; and instructor material, including an instructor manual, slide pack, and a test bank. This is important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Hispanic marketing and consumer behaviour specifically, as well as those interested in cross-cultural consumer behaviour and multicultural marketing. Support materials for this book are available at www.routledge.com/9781032137742.




Global Observations of the Influence of Culture on Consumer Buying Behavior


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Positive consumerism is the backbone to a strong economy. Examining the relationship between culture and marketing can provide companies with the data they need to expand their reach and increase their profits. Global Observations of the Influence of Culture on Consumer Buying Behavior is an in-depth, scholarly resource that discusses how marketing practices can be influenced by cultural preferences. Featuring an array of relevant topics including societal environments, cultural stereotyping, brand loyalty, and marketing semiotics, this publication is ideal for CEOs, business managers, professionals, and researchers that are interested in studying alternative factors that impact the marketing field.




Handbook on Cross-Cultural Marketing


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This Handbook suggests future directions for cross-cultural marketing research in a rapidly evolving global environment. It builds upon existing models and topics and addresses the methodological challenges of cross-cultural research and provides applied examples spanning various methodologies as well as industry sectors and country settings. In addition, contributors present new paradigms for future research.