Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience

This paper is to investigate the temporal perception between China and British and its influence on their consumption behavior regard to technological products. A qualitative interview was adopted here for the research. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted to seek the difference and similarity...

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Main Author: ZHOU, JING
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36908/
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description This paper is to investigate the temporal perception between China and British and its influence on their consumption behavior regard to technological products. A qualitative interview was adopted here for the research. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted to seek the difference and similarity of temporal perception between two cultures. Also their time perceptive that related technological products consumption behavior. The findings from study show that China and British share a similar time perspectives. Participants from those two countries had strong present and future orientation. Further, the findings support that time play a special role in consumer behavior and it have impacts on technological products option. The findings also show that brand loyalty and inter-brand connection can save customer time and stimulate the consumption of technological products to a certain degree.
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spelling nottingham-369082017-10-12T21:28:18Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36908/ Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience ZHOU, JING This paper is to investigate the temporal perception between China and British and its influence on their consumption behavior regard to technological products. A qualitative interview was adopted here for the research. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted to seek the difference and similarity of temporal perception between two cultures. Also their time perceptive that related technological products consumption behavior. The findings from study show that China and British share a similar time perspectives. Participants from those two countries had strong present and future orientation. Further, the findings support that time play a special role in consumer behavior and it have impacts on technological products option. The findings also show that brand loyalty and inter-brand connection can save customer time and stimulate the consumption of technological products to a certain degree. 2016-09-15 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36908/1/CULTURAL%20DIFFERENTIATED%20TIME%20PERCEPTIONS%20IN%20CONSUMPTION%20EXPERIENCE.pdf ZHOU, JING (2016) Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title_full Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title_fullStr Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title_full_unstemmed Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title_short Cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
title_sort cultural differentiated time perception in consumption experience
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36908/