Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands

The paper proposes a research framework to study the influence of country of origin cues, consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies toward product judgement of and the willingness to buy Australian brands. Categorization theory, confirmation bias and schema congruity princ...

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Main Authors: Cheah, Isaac, Phau, Ian
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Marketing, Curtin Business School 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20201
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description The paper proposes a research framework to study the influence of country of origin cues, consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies toward product judgement of and the willingness to buy Australian brands. Categorization theory, confirmation bias and schema congruity principles form the theoretical bases. Both consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies are separate constructs however are correlated. Symbolic and functional brand concepts are anticipated to reflect consumer schematic tendencies. Consumer knowledge is proposed to moderate the relationship between these cues and consumer?s willingness to buy Australian brands. The hypotheses will be tested with structural equation modelling. The main contributions of the proposed research are also delineated.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-202012017-01-30T12:17:56Z Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands Cheah, Isaac Phau, Ian Country of origin Categorization theory Australia Confirmation bias The paper proposes a research framework to study the influence of country of origin cues, consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies toward product judgement of and the willingness to buy Australian brands. Categorization theory, confirmation bias and schema congruity principles form the theoretical bases. Both consumer economic nationalistic and consumer ethnocentric tendencies are separate constructs however are correlated. Symbolic and functional brand concepts are anticipated to reflect consumer schematic tendencies. Consumer knowledge is proposed to moderate the relationship between these cues and consumer?s willingness to buy Australian brands. The hypotheses will be tested with structural equation modelling. The main contributions of the proposed research are also delineated. 2008 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20201 School of Marketing, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle Country of origin
Categorization theory
Australia
Confirmation bias
Cheah, Isaac
Phau, Ian
Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title_full Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title_fullStr Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title_full_unstemmed Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title_short Incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of Australian brands
title_sort incorporating the effects of country of ownership: a study of australian brands
topic Country of origin
Categorization theory
Australia
Confirmation bias
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20201