Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products

Consumer decision-making has long been an interesting issue for both academics and practitioners. It is believed that each consumer interacts with a market with particular decision-making styles and these styles are stable overtime. This dissertation aimed to investigate Thai female consumer decisio...

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Main Author: Chaisitthiroj, Nussara
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20947/
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description Consumer decision-making has long been an interesting issue for both academics and practitioners. It is believed that each consumer interacts with a market with particular decision-making styles and these styles are stable overtime. This dissertation aimed to investigate Thai female consumer decision-making styles on imported cosmetic products and to segment them based on those styles. To achieve the objectives, Sproles and Kendall's (1986) Consumer Style Inventory (CSI) was employed. From a sample of 225 Thai females who buy foreign brand cosmetics, a new eight-factor model of CSI explaining these female consumers' decision-making styles was emerged using a factor analysis. Then, eight segments of consumers were identified using a cluster analysis. The results indicate that cluster 1 could represent most Thai female consumers who purchase imported cosmetics since the majority of the respondents belong to this cluster.
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spelling nottingham-209472017-12-31T09:38:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20947/ Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products Chaisitthiroj, Nussara Consumer decision-making has long been an interesting issue for both academics and practitioners. It is believed that each consumer interacts with a market with particular decision-making styles and these styles are stable overtime. This dissertation aimed to investigate Thai female consumer decision-making styles on imported cosmetic products and to segment them based on those styles. To achieve the objectives, Sproles and Kendall's (1986) Consumer Style Inventory (CSI) was employed. From a sample of 225 Thai females who buy foreign brand cosmetics, a new eight-factor model of CSI explaining these female consumers' decision-making styles was emerged using a factor analysis. Then, eight segments of consumers were identified using a cluster analysis. The results indicate that cluster 1 could represent most Thai female consumers who purchase imported cosmetics since the majority of the respondents belong to this cluster. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20947/1/07MSClixnc2.pdf Chaisitthiroj, Nussara (2007) Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Thai Consumer Decision-making styles consumer style inventory (CSI) cosmetic purchasing behaviour consumer behaviour shopping consumer segmentation Thailand
spellingShingle Thai Consumer
Decision-making styles
consumer style inventory (CSI)
cosmetic purchasing behaviour
consumer behaviour
shopping
consumer segmentation
Thailand
Chaisitthiroj, Nussara
Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title_full Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title_fullStr Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title_full_unstemmed Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title_short Thai Consumer Decision-making Styles on Imported Cosmetic Brand Products
title_sort thai consumer decision-making styles on imported cosmetic brand products
topic Thai Consumer
Decision-making styles
consumer style inventory (CSI)
cosmetic purchasing behaviour
consumer behaviour
shopping
consumer segmentation
Thailand
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20947/