Consumer Behavior

Consumer Behavior Category

Models Of Buyer Behavior

Chapter 5: Microsimulating Consumer Behavior

Chapter 5 of Models of Buyer Behavior

Microsimulating Consumer Behavior uses an example of a stochastic consumer microsimulation to show the type of structure that may be imposed on the modeling of consumer behavior by digital simulation. The chapter breaks down the concept of simulation, including data input, sequence of events and cost. The benefits of simulation are made evident for further research of consumer behavior and to students and faculty of marketing studies.

Market Segmentation Using Multivariate Analysis

Chapter 6 – Market Segmentation Using Multivariate Analysis

Chapter 6 of Market Structure Analysis

The authors deal with the problem of how to identify groupings of consumers in such a way that they will respond differently to different market mixes. The chapter focuses on the response-based approach to locating useful market segments. The chapter is also concerned with identification of potential market segments based on patterns of information contained in survey questionnaires.

Marketing Minority Consumers Public Policy Alternatives

Chapter 6 – Marketing System Performance and Minority Consumers: Public Policy Alternatives

Chapter 6 of Minorities and Marketing: Research Challenges

The chapter presents an overview of public policy alternatives for change in the marketing system with reference to minority groups. The focus is on consumer, marketer, and system-change programs, policies, and other efforts designed to improve marketing system performance. An integral part of the discussion are the requirements and prospects for change and improvement.

Models Of Buyer Behavior

Chapter 6: Information and Consumer Behavior

Chapter 6 of Models of Buyer Behavior

Information and Consumer Behavior poses two questions: what is information? And how does information affect consumer behavior? In pursuing the significance of information, a theory is developed for predicting the probability that a consumer will receive information. This theory is highly beneficial to introduce new products or deciding to keep a product on the market.

Pattern Recognition Stochastic Series

Chapter 7: Pattern Recognition in Stochastic Series

Chapter 7 of Models of Buyer Behavior

Pattern Recognition in Stochastic Series is concerned with the processes people use to understand the environment within which they make choices. The chapter dissects the major problems facing analysts and presents several equations and theoretical models for determining information transmission and reception. Step-by-step guidelines and two hypotheses are provided for understanding theories of consumer behavior.

Benefit Structure Analysis

Chapter 8 – Benefit Structure Analysis

Chapter 8 of Market Structure Analysis

The chapter describes the technique of benefit structure analysis, developed by one of the authors and used to systematically search for needs in broadly defined markets. The resulting benefit structure study has two objectives: to identify the most important consumer needs within a broad need area, and; to measure the extent to which these needs are not being met. Awareness of both the size of the needs and need deficiencies offers ideal direction for product improvement and promotion.

Deriving Empirically Testable Version Howard Sheth Model Buyer Behavior

Chapter 8: Deriving an Empirically Testable Version of the Howard-Sheth Model of Buyer Behavior

Chapter 8 of Models of Buyer Behavior

This chapter attempts to adapt the Howard-Sheth model of buyer behavior for specific empirical testing. Through a thorough analysis of data collection problems, and possible variables, the theory is fully presented and dissected. The paper’s ultimate goal is to prove the theory amenable to formulation as a system of simultaneous equations.

Conjoint Measurement Multiple Trade Off Analysis

Chapter 9 – Conjoint Measurement: Multiple Trade-Off Analysis

Chapter 9 of Market Structure Analysis

The chapter discusses two approaches to deriving consumers’ utility functions for attributes and levels of attributes. These approaches, orthogonal array and pair-wise trade-off comparisons, are currently the most widely used. The ultimate goal is to deal with the problem of predicting psychological response to physical change in stimuli.

Confidence Validated Construct

Chapter 9: Confidence as a Validated Construct

Chapter 9 of Models of Buyer Behavior

Confidence as a Validated Construct assesses the extent to which confidence can be viewed as a validated construct. By creating a nomological network with confidence as an element, relations among the construct can be specified. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates the valuable role of confidence as a variable in buyer behavior.

Children's Television Advertising

Children’s Television Advertising

In the early 1970s when there were cries for an outright ban of all advertising to children, the Federal Trade Commission introduced and strictly implemented the Action for Children’s Television (ACT). During this time, Children’s Television Advertising was written by Thomas E. Barry. This work put together most of the research of the time and presented it in one volume on children’s television advertising, of investigation, and enforcement in the field of marketing at a time when the ACT was enforced.