Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention

This research explores consumers’ underlying motives for luxury brand mimicry consumption using functional theories as the basis. Three studies are designed to measure consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands serving as either social adjustive or value expressive function and their varied prefer...

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Main Author: Zhang, W.
Format: Working Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://business.curtin.edu.au/schools-and-departments/marketing/our-research/working-papers/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27416
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description This research explores consumers’ underlying motives for luxury brand mimicry consumption using functional theories as the basis. Three studies are designed to measure consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands serving as either social adjustive or value expressive function and their varied preference for mimic luxury brands. Also, the constraining effect of imitation types and their relationship with consumer’ moral beliefs will be measured in these two types of consumers. Finally, it will also look into how product characteristics, such as brand logos, and situational characteristics, like advertisements, influence consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands and what is the meaning in curbing the demand of mimic luxury products. A set of hypothesis will be developed through relevant literature and theories and potential significance of this research is also presented.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-274162017-01-30T12:58:50Z Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention Zhang, W. This research explores consumers’ underlying motives for luxury brand mimicry consumption using functional theories as the basis. Three studies are designed to measure consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands serving as either social adjustive or value expressive function and their varied preference for mimic luxury brands. Also, the constraining effect of imitation types and their relationship with consumer’ moral beliefs will be measured in these two types of consumers. Finally, it will also look into how product characteristics, such as brand logos, and situational characteristics, like advertisements, influence consumers’ attitudes toward luxury brands and what is the meaning in curbing the demand of mimic luxury products. A set of hypothesis will be developed through relevant literature and theories and potential significance of this research is also presented. 2015 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27416 http://business.curtin.edu.au/schools-and-departments/marketing/our-research/working-papers/ fulltext
spellingShingle Zhang, W.
Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title_full Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title_fullStr Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title_full_unstemmed Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title_short Consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
title_sort consumers evaluation of imitation in luxury brands and their purchase intention
url http://business.curtin.edu.au/schools-and-departments/marketing/our-research/working-papers/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27416