Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK

Brand has been seen as a powerful tool to attract customers’ attention even sometimes changes their purchasing decision. Aaker (1991) points out brand can be regarded as equity and mainly involves four elements (brand loyalty, brand association, brand awareness and perceived quality) that add extra...

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Main Author: Yang, Mingyi
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27126/
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description Brand has been seen as a powerful tool to attract customers’ attention even sometimes changes their purchasing decision. Aaker (1991) points out brand can be regarded as equity and mainly involves four elements (brand loyalty, brand association, brand awareness and perceived quality) that add extra value to the products. This thesis explores that those factors how to influence customer purchasing choice in mobile phone market, while combing several factors which generally influence customer mobile phone choice. In addition to compare the different influences in China and in the UK. Finally, this study finds out which factor is the most influential factor among four key factors respectively in China and in the UK. 136 Self-complete questionnaires have been used to run SPSS software in order to do statistic analysis. The findings recommended that Chinese marketers should keep developing brand benefit, and the British marketers should focus on customers’ interests and the actual needs. It is important that perceived quality should cause the attention of markers and manufactures both in China and in the UK. Key words: Brand equity, Consumer behaviour, factors influence consumer behaviour
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spelling nottingham-271262018-06-05T16:27:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27126/ Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK Yang, Mingyi Brand has been seen as a powerful tool to attract customers’ attention even sometimes changes their purchasing decision. Aaker (1991) points out brand can be regarded as equity and mainly involves four elements (brand loyalty, brand association, brand awareness and perceived quality) that add extra value to the products. This thesis explores that those factors how to influence customer purchasing choice in mobile phone market, while combing several factors which generally influence customer mobile phone choice. In addition to compare the different influences in China and in the UK. Finally, this study finds out which factor is the most influential factor among four key factors respectively in China and in the UK. 136 Self-complete questionnaires have been used to run SPSS software in order to do statistic analysis. The findings recommended that Chinese marketers should keep developing brand benefit, and the British marketers should focus on customers’ interests and the actual needs. It is important that perceived quality should cause the attention of markers and manufactures both in China and in the UK. Key words: Brand equity, Consumer behaviour, factors influence consumer behaviour 2014-08-28 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27126/1/Mingyi_Yang_Influence_of_Brand_on_Customer_Behaviour_in_Mobile_Phone_Choice%3A_Comparison_between_China_and_The_UK.pdf Yang, Mingyi (2014) Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Key words: Brand equity Consumer behaviour factors influence consumer behaviour
spellingShingle Key words: Brand equity
Consumer behaviour
factors influence consumer behaviour
Yang, Mingyi
Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title_full Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title_fullStr Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title_full_unstemmed Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title_short Influence of Brand on Customer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Choice: Comparison between China and The UK
title_sort influence of brand on customer behaviour in mobile phone choice: comparison between china and the uk
topic Key words: Brand equity
Consumer behaviour
factors influence consumer behaviour
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27126/