I conclude the discussion of managerial applications of GCC and LCC by bringing various core concepts together (Table 5). Its approach refers to a family of theoretical perspectives that address the dynamic relationship between consumer actions, the marketplace, and cultural meanings. Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (2006) proposed a construct called global consumption orientation. This analysis yields several interesting insights. of re-spiritualization or de-secularization observable in certain parts of the global society. As shown, the IRT model of Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) can be used to quantify key aspects of consumer culture theory. Table 2 shows that lifestyle and clothing are on average most diagnostic for AGCC, while food is least diagnostic, indicating that this consumption domain discriminates the least between respondents varying on AGCC. Because GCC lacks such powerful cultural transmission institutions, perhaps the impact of the overall GCC relative to GCC subcultures is less prominent. Finally, ALCC is positively correlated with health consciousness. These psychographic profiles are consistent with results reported in Table 3. 2000; Davvetas, Sichtmann, and Diamantopoulos 2015; Dimofte, Johansson, and Bagozzi 2010; Dimofte, Johansson and Ronkainen 2008; Holt, Quelch, and Taylor 2004; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003; Strizhakova, Coulter, and Price 2011; Swoboda and Hirschmann 2016; Xie, Batraf, and Peng 2015). International marketing researchers could show them the way. 163–69). (, Flannery, W. Peter, Reise, Steven P., Jiajuan, Yu (, Gineikiene, Justina, Schlegelmilch, Bodo B., Ruzeviciute, Ruta (, Gurhan-Canli, Zeynep, Sarıal-Abi, Gulen, Hayran, Ceren (, Holt, Douglas B., Quelch, John A., Taylor, Earl L. (, Hung, Kineta H., Li, Stella Yiyan, Belk, Russell W. (, Kipnis, Eva, Broderick, Amanda J., Demangeot, Catherine (, Kumar, Nirmalya, Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M. (, LaFramboise, Teresa, Coleman, Hardin L.K., Gerton, Jennifer (, Lehmann, Donald R., Keller, Kevin L., Farley, John U. Scholars who espouse CCT are predominantly, albeit not exclusively, employed in marketing or management departments in universities and business schools in Europe and North America, though there is a growing interest in this type of research in Latin America, for example. 2.b. Extending current cross-sectional research on AGCC and ALCC by studying temporal dynamics would be worthwhile. Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) examined the use of consumer culture positioning (CCP) strategies in television advertising in seven countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Approx 78 minutes. They are also higher on intellectual autonomy and are more secular-rational. A large body of research has documented important consequences associated with perceived brand globalness, including higher perceived quality and prestige, association with global citizenship, higher brand trust, affect, purchase likelihood, and loyalty (Batra et al. The issue is analogous to the question of whether a nation has an overarching national culture that subsumes subcultures, or whether the subcultures are so strong that it is not meaningful to speak of a national culture. Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. These response options are derived from cultural globalization theory and acculturation theory. Given that GCC is still a recent phenomenon, this finding provides compelling empirical evidence concerning its appeal. This profile is consistent with the idea that GCC offers the promise of modernity, progress, and a new, different, and more exciting future. This type of analysis deepens our understanding of the interrelations between consumer culture and consumption on an international and generalizable basis. In that model, the probability that respondent i in country j, with latent values AGCCij and ALCCij, will respond to consumption domain k (k = 1,…, 6 in the Steenkamp and De Jong measurement instrument) in nominal response category c (c = 1,…, 4) is given by the following equation: Zijkc can be regarded as the unobserved preference that respondent i from country j has for response category c in the context of consumption domain k. The parameter ξkc indicates a category response “easiness” parameter, with more positive (negative) values being associated with a greater easiness (greater difficulty) of the response category being chosen. If so, can multinationals use this view to their advantage? The change in the global regulation of economy is evident and apparent. 1See Steenkamp and Maydeu-Olivares (2015) and Steenkamp, De Jong, and Baumgartner (2010) for references to these scales. Sociodemographic characteristics exhibit much weaker relations with ALCC than with AGCC. Countries that have a more positive ALCC are more hierarchical (refer to power distance, hierarchy, lower egalitarianism) and collectivistic (embeddedness, lower individualism). Consistent with this perspective, Belk (2000) reports that elite consumers in Zimbabwe largely measure their consumption “success” through reference to the more developed world in general, and the United Kingdom and United States in particular. Yet for AGCC, we find a strong effect of age, as well as substantial effects of education and (to a lesser degree) social class. Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. For more information view the SAGE Journals Article Sharing page. The consumer relation with the brand is likely one of identification (Hung, Li, and Belk 2007). If the target segment has low AGCC and high ALCC, a combination of attitudes more often found among older, less educated consumers, LCCP is the more beneficial positioning strategy. Firms can—and do—use these insights in their marketing strategies. On the other hand, the results for ALCC were less satisfactory. To get a complete picture of the probability of any particular response for a specific consumption domain, one needs to take both discrimination and easiness parameters into account. Most research has either focused on GCC and related constructs (GCCP, AGCC, perceived brand globalness) or contrasted it to LCC and its related constructs (LCCP, ALCC, and perceived local iconness). Second, I add new empirical marketing insights on GCC and LCC by reanalyzing a massive global data set previously used by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010), and by leveraging new data on brand equity. However, in the marketing world the influence of culture on consumer behavior takes 3 different aspects into consideration. Researchers have often used different labels for what are essentially the same constructs, leading to confusion. However, cultural alienation is identified in the cultural identification and adaptation literature (e.g., Oetting and Beauvais 1991). Steenkamp and De Jong found that stronger endorsement of secular-rational cultural values has a positive effect on the country’s average score on AGCC and a negative effect on its average ALCC. As such, research into consumer acculturation towards Western multicultural societies (Askegaard et al., 2005; Peñaloza, 1994) and global consumer culture (Cleveland & Laroche, 2007) has gained currency in management scholarship. Second, consumer culture is not just about the consumption of tangible products, but about anything that can be “consumed,” including services, images, lifestyles, and symbols (Arnould and Thompson 2005). The bidimensional model treats (old) cultural maintenance and (new) cultural adaptation as two conceptually separate dimensions, allowing identification with the new culture to coexist alongside identification with the old culture. However, in the Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) sample, glalienation was the dominant response for one of seven respondents. Researchers using Likert-type measurement instruments derive construct scores for AGCC and ALCC using either (weighted) factor scores or (unweighted) summated scores. In the following pages, we 00a_ARNOULD_THOMPSON_INTRO.indd 3 16/05/2018 4:41:39 PM. As it turns out, Michael Bay was likely not the best choice. Our discipline has long recognized the importance of GCC and LCC. More specifically, I start by tracing the development of GCC and LCC, elaborating on their roots in consumer culture, cultural globalization, and acculturation theories. Hofstede distinguishes five dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and long-term orientation. Why are these people alienated from consumer culture? In sum, the brand equity analysis shows that the interplay between the CCP used by the brand and consumers’ attitudes toward consumer culture has an appreciable (medium to large) effect on brand equity for roughly one-third of the international brands in consumer packaged goods. 1) Culture as a whole – Think of this as the statement “I love India” or “I love USA”. If so, what underlies these differences? Proponents say that people are happier and more productive when their wants and needs are met, and that buying and owning things is a means to that end. For each brand, consumers’ brand equity score was regressed on their AGCC and ALCC scores. Individual-Level Correlates of AGCC and ALCC. Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) hypothesized that indirect, image-oriented, soft-sell appeals are more suitable for advertisements using GCCP than direct, strong, hard-sell message arguments are, because soft-sell appeals would be more similarly interpreted across countries. The global shift to industrialization and the easing of economic restrictions in command economies, coupled with the move toward individual growth and privatization, constitute a signal that what is modern is desirable and what is desirable must be attained. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. These parameter estimates are based on survey data from demographically diverse samples of respondents in 28 nations in Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland), Central/Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine), Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand), Latin America (Argentina, Brazil), and North America (United States). Various marketing researchers have proposed instruments for measuring AGCC or closely related constructs that might be regarded as proxies for AGCC (Bartsch, Riefler, and Diamantopoulos 2016), such as susceptibility to GCC (Zhou, Teng, and Poon 2008), global connectedness (Strizhakova and Coulter 2015), and identification with the global community (Westjohn et al. The most influential bidimensional model is Berry’s framework (Berry et al. The R2 is an absolute measure of explained variance, but in international marketing, where degrees of freedom at the country level are almost invariably modest at best, parsimony is a key consideration. 4 But from consumer-critical perspective also a spiritualization or sacralization of the consumer sphere and popular culture is evident. Create a link to share a read only version of this article with your colleagues and friends. The authors find Future research would benefit from a rigorous analysis of the convergent validity of these constructs and whether they behave similarly in nomological analyses. Only 14.8% of the advertisements did not use a dominant CCP, attesting to CCP’s widespread use by firms. Yet important unresolved issues remain. The accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms, and other traditions among the members of an organization or society. If the move away from GCC is a broad-based phenomenon, does perceived brand globalness become a liability, and should multinational corporations try to reposition their global brands as icons of local culture? Arnould and Thompson (2005, p. 869) define consumer culture as “a social arrangement in which the relations between lived culture and social resources, and between meaningful ways of life and the symbolic and material resources on which they depend, are mediated through markets.”. | PowerPoint PPT presentation | free to view . Correlations between Schwartz’s seven dimensions were even worse: 12 correlations exceeded .5, including four exceeding .7. Furthermore, people with high AGCC are more materialistic and innovative and less ethnocentric and nostalgic. Hundreds of journalists and industry professionals, gathered in a Las Vegas hall for the world's biggest gadget expo, watched Bay take his position in front of a 105-in screen with bright, hyper-sharp images. A successful marketing strategy for LCCP brands requires extensive adaptation. A second possible response discussed in this literature is localization, reflecting the desire to maintain one’s local consumer culture and to generally reject influences perceived as global. To assess the validity of this simple solution, I turned to the large sample (N = 13,112) of Steenkamp and De Jong (2010). This approach can lead to strange results. 2A small effect (r = .10), would be “significant” at p = .61, which makes little sense. After 20 years of marketing research on GCC and LCC, it is time to take stock. Proponents say that people are happier and more productive when their wants and needs are met, and that buying and owning things is a means to that end. The total number of respondents was 13,112. Much of this research is focused on consumer behavior (demand side). A third acculturation model calls for a fusion and integration of the two cultures, creating a mixture and combination that not only contains “the best” of the original cultures but also new and unique elements that are atypical of both of them (Coleman 1995). Global Consumer Culture Global consumer culture is driven by the extension of businesses organized around market principles into every corner of the planet. Compared with, say, five years ago, nationality and borders seem to have become more important. 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People embracing consumer culture regard consumption as important and valuable in its own right (Ritzer 2007, pp. They attempt to add meaning to their lives, to make collective sense of their environments, and to orient their own experiences and lives through consumption (Tomlinson 1999, p. 18). 2016; Westjohn, Singh, and Magnusson 2012). Tomlinson (1999, p. 190) calls “localism” and “globalism” the “two axial principles of our age,” while Arnould and Thompson (2005) note that local consumer cultures are increasingly interpenetrated by globalization forces. Correlations that exceed Cohen’s (1988) cutoff of .30 for medium effect size are reported.2 Countries that, on average, have a more positive AGCC are more long-term oriented (i.e., have lower preference for maintaining time-honored traditions and norms and view societal change more positively). The combination of these two findings can explain why hard-sell appeals are still used by nearly 45% of GCCP advertisements in the Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra study. Currently, GCC is dominated by Western cultural symbols and values. CCT does not offer a grand unifying theory but "refers to a family of theoretical perspectives that address the dynamic relationships between consumer actions, the marketplace, and cultural meanings". This finding is consistent with previous research documenting that global brands benefit not only from associations with GCC but also from quality and prestige associations (Özsomer 2012; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003). Furthermore, the higher a country scores on self-expression values, the lower its average AGCC and ALCC. 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A brief look inside the relationship between marketing and culture as it relates to cross cultural marketing and global consumer culture. Acculturation models are often applied to explain how individuals differ in their response to new (“host”) cultures that they physically enter (e.g., immigrants). Marketing academics use and adapt these theories to study how GCC and LCC affect the marketplace. I have read and accept the terms and conditions, View permissions information for this article. On the other hand, globalization and glocalization exhibited the largest negative correlation (−.57), which is surprising because they share a preference for global alternatives. To illustrate, the response options for the entertainment domain of consumption are as follows: I enjoy entertainment that I think is popular in many countries around the world more than traditional entertainment that is popular in my own country. Schwartz further proposes that these seven dimensions can be grouped into three bipolar dimensions: autonomy versus embeddedness, harmony versus mastery, and hierarchy versus egalitarianism. Over 10% of variance in AGCC across thousands of consumers and many countries around the world can be explained by a person’s ethnocentrism. I conclude the analysis of national-cultural correlates of AGCC and ALCC by examining which framework has the greatest predictive power. For AGCC, Schwartz’s seven-dimensional framework yields the highest absolute predictive power, followed by Hofstede’s and Inglehart’s. An important issue in this literature is the effect of acculturation on one’s cultural identity. Nationalism, consumer ethnocentrism, the Big Five trait agreeableness, and prevention regulatory focus are positively associated with ALCC, and cosmopolitanism, the Big Five trait openness to experience, and promotion regulatory focus are positively associated with AGCC (Cleveland and Laroche 2007; Tu, Khare, and Zhang 2012; Westjohn et al. Some society journals require you to create a personal profile, then activate your society account, You are adding the following journals to your email alerts, Did you struggle to get access to this article? Consumer culture theory (CCT) refers to a heteroglossic assemblage of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations that seeks to illuminate the dynamic, interactive relationships among consumer actions, marketplace systems, cultural meanings, and broader sociostructural forces, such as socialization in class and gender practices and ideologies. The Global At the same time, globalization processes offer opportunities for local brands to differentiate themselves on unique local consumer culture (LCC) meanings (Schuiling and Kapferer 2004; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003). With these considerations in mind, the contribution of this research is threefold. Globalization and its Impact on Consumer Culture and Competition Policy. Thus, the incremental contribution of another such study may be limited. Stimulation, tradition, conformity, and consumer innovativeness also have substantial effect sizes (r ≥ .20). To identify the model, Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) place theory-based restrictions on the discrimination parameters. This article attempts to understand the impact of global consumer culture and ethnocentric consumerism on global citizenship by identifying the mediating effect of cultural intelligence.,The proposed structural equation model explains the relationship between global consumer culture, ethnocentric consumerism, and global citizenship. However, when degrees of freedom are taken into account, Inglehart’s framework performs best. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) Selected Literature on GCC and LCC. The marketing strategy for these brands can be fairly highly standardized. Delhi High Court. Local consumer culture positioning (LCCP) associates the brand with local cultural meanings, reflects local culture norms/identities, portrays the brand as consumed by local people in the national culture, and/or depicts the brand as locally produced for local people. For managers this means that they should be able to work with a large variety of people from different countries and cultural backgrounds. Under this theory, consumer culture - a society revolving around the consumption of goods and services - is empowering and improves the overall well-being of the members of society. This process, understood as cultural imperialism, [page needed] is associated with the destruction of cultural identities, dominated by a homogenized and westernized, consumer culture. Attitudes are of central importance in any behavioral analysis. The glalienation response concerns rejection of all symbols of culture, be they global, hybrid, or local. These authors proposed a nominal item response theory (IRT) measurement model. Several scholars (e.g., Appadurai 1996; Ritzer 2007) and many in the popular media see these forces of globalization as leading to increasing cultural homogenization. Choose from 500 different sets of global consumer culture behavior flashcards on Quizlet. Those arguing for assimilation further suggest that along with the diffusion of market economies, increasingly sophisticated technology and the spread of multinational corporations have led to standardized brand images, mass advertising, and “the sale of dreams of affluence, personal success and erotic gratification through advertising and the culture industry of Hollywood” (Holton 2000, p. 142). Secular-rational societies’ values have the opposite preferences on all these topics. Do GCC and LCC really matter to consumers? After all, these various anti-globalization developments have also generated strong counterreactions in those same countries. We invoke this anecdote as a metaphor for the challenges faced by scholars who seek to pursue technological innovation across the boundaries that tend to separate cultural and technical production, cultural and technological innovation. The consumer’s relation with the brand is aspirational (Hung, Li, and Belk 2007), especially in emerging markets, where global brands signify modernity, the future, and dreams of abundance (Batra et al. One school of thought within this literature argues that large numbers of people around the world are assimilating into GCC (Holton 2000; Pieterse 2004), substituting globally diffused behaviors and preferences for those from their traditional, local cultures. It implies that in a modern world, core identities are defined and oriented in relation to consumption. Hence, many scholars (Alden et al., 1999; Gammoh et al., 2011) have proposed the use of global consumer culture positioning as the one which adapts to consumers’ culture and therefore the acceptance of brands beyond own borders. Information on age and education alone explains 12.7% of global variance in AGCC. Increasingly consumers . Supporting the globalization position, Hannerz (1990, p. 237) notes that GCC is emerging because of “increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures as well as through the development of cultures without a clear anchorage in any one territory.”. What are the implications of the idea of modernity for consumer research? It is created through consumer perceptions that the brand is marketed in multiple countries and/or by using GCC symbols (such as brand names, logos, visuals, themes, and endorsers associated with modern lifestyle) in marketing communications and other elements of the brand’s marketing strategy (Akaka and Alden 2010). The easiness and discrimination parameters are allowed to vary across items and response categories. Inglehart’s theory is grounded in materialism and modernization theory, which makes it especially relevant for studying GCC and LCC. Countries that are low on this dimension (“traditional” societies) emphasize the importance of deference to authority, along with absolute standards and traditional family values. Theory & Approach International advertising is becoming more complex due to the varieties in both the theoretical approach and application. Values and Culture Values Culture … These authors found that AGCC is positively related to the importance a person attaches to power, stimulation, and universalism values, while it is negatively related to tradition and conformity. First, consumer culture is about consumption. Probability of giving a particular response to the forces of global and local culture for two consumption domains. The past 20 yr. of consumer research have produced a flurry of research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. The core process implicated by GCC is that astute use of GCCP increases perceived brand globalness, which increases purchase likelihood because of the brand’s associations with perceived quality, prestige, and global citizenship. As highlighted herein, a large body of research has documented the behavioral consequences of AGCC and ALCC. Table 3. Traditionally social science has tended to regard consumption as a trivial by-product of production. Thus, generalization across populations and countries is difficult. The results of this new analysis are shown in Table 3. Yet, in recent years, powerful political and economic forces suggest that globalization might be stalling, leading to renewed interest in local consumer culture (LCC). Indeed, LaFramboise, Coleman, and Gerton (1993) concluded their review of models of “second-culture acquisition” by favoring models that allow individuals to develop “bicultural competence.” They discussed several models in the acculturation literature that hypothesize that individuals can develop responses to both cultures that allow them to identify with both, one, or neither culture. Glalienation has received the least attention in the literature. Specific easiness parameters are also informative. This response has received little attention in the globalization literature, which implicitly assumes that all consumers have high cultural involvement, whether focused on GCC, LCC, or both. Broadly, scholars agree that it involves combinations of local and global consumer culture within one person. After all, why should companies bother to study consumer culture if it does not affect consumer behavior? While descriptively rich, this type of research makes it challenging to derive conclusions that are generalizable to an entire population, let alone to draw conclusions that apply across countries. Please check you selected the correct society from the list and entered the user name and password you use to log in to your society website. In consumer culture, the transmission of cultural values, norms, and customary ways of doing things between generations is largely carried out through the exercise of private, personal choice. The comparison is focused on correlations with constructs for which r > .10 in either the unweighted scores, the IRT scores, or both. Some studies have used the Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) items but instructed respondents to score each response option on a Likert-type response scale. As this article has shown, much has been achieved in the last 20 years. Rather than being taken as a unified theory, CCT is better seen as theoretics and/or a community of consumer culture theorists (Arnould & Thompson, 2007; Penaloza et al., 2009) sharing an interest in the exploration of: 1) the socio-historical patterning of consumption, 2) the interplay between consumption and consumer identity formation, 3) marketplace cultures and consumption collectives, and 4) mass-mediated ideologies and consumers’ interpretive strategies, to elicit the four fundamental trajectories of CCT (Arnould & Thompson, 2005). They guide people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. The forced-choice response format avoids issues of response styles. In line with this perspective, Inglehart and Baker (2000) show that national cultures and values change in a path-dependent way rather than converge toward each other. Future research should investigate whether alternative glocalization responses can be fruitfully separated and underlying processes and outcomes better understood, particularly in terms of consumer responses to global cultural flows. Next, I turn to their individual-level and national cultural correlates. Related Posts: Consumer Culture Theory; Post navigation The dotted arrows do not indicate a causal relation but show the flow of information dissemination and sources of conceptual ideas. Consumer culture is a social system in which consumption is dominated by the consumption of commercial products. However, in the last decades, consumer culture has been increasingly shaped by globalization processes. Is the negative effect of age on AGCC a cohort effect or the effect of aging (Steenkamp and Maydeu-Olivares 2015)? The picture that emerges is that people with high AGCC are younger and better educated, looking for new experiences in their lives, and less beholden to the past, tradition, conformity, and economic xenophobia. This book aims to share and help the reader develop a consumer culture perspective of their own. 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This sets the context for an in-depth treatment of consumer attitudes toward GCC (AGCC) and LCC (ALCC). Across AGCC and ALCC, Inglehart’s secular-rational dimension is the single most diagnostic factor for explaining country differences in consumer cultural attitudes. Consumer Culture Theory: Ideology, Mythology and Meaning in Technology Consumption. In the cultural globalization and acculturation literatures, the glocalization response is less precisely defined than the globalization and localization responses are. Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) looks at consumers, brands, and markets from a social and cultural vantage point. is a complex concept that varies drastically in both theoretical approach and application. They are lower on harmony, autonomy (affective, intellectual), and secular-rational and self-expressiveness values (i.e., embracing survival and traditional values). Our interests and, consequently, the theories we draw upon primarily deal with questions of technology consumption. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. I organize them around the three themes (Figure 1): GCC/LCC theory, attitudes toward GCC and LCC, and managerial use of GCC and LCC. See the Appendix for details. If a firm’s GCCP strategy is effective in establishing perceptions of globalness as well as associations with quality, prestige, and/or global identity, GCCP may overall be a more beneficial positioning strategy than LCCP. Respondents evaluated up to four randomly chosen brands on a 16-item brand equity measurement instrument, which covers four components of brand equity: esteem, differentiation, relevance, and energy (Lehmann, Keller, and Farley 2008). Who better than the director of the Transformers franchise to convince us of the transformative power of a television designed to wow consumers and help safeguard Samsung's future? Abstract. Table 5. The consistency across frameworks suggests that this finding is not a coincidence. Even though the sign of the discrimination parameters is fixed, it is the magnitude of the discrimination parameters and easiness parameters (which are freely estimated) that determines the shape of the probability surfaces in Equation 1. The emerging global consumer culture is affecting international marketing theories and in return, international promotional mix decisions. Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) proposed three types of brand positioning strategies based on consumer culture. Yet the magnitude and direction of this correlation varied strongly, from a low of −.61 in one study to a high of .49 in another study. The neo-Marxists in dependency and world-system theories examine capitalist accumulation on a global scale on lines of core and peripheral countries. In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media. Once a consumer purchases a product or downloads iTunes Apple has access to data the company leverages. I correlate country average scores on AGCC and ALCC with their national-cultural scores, and I add the national-cultural frameworks of Hofstede and Schwartz to my analysis. This finding provides strong empirical support for the idea that many consumers are reluctant to disassociate themselves from LCC. Schwartz’s bipolar dimensional framework performs the worst, its R2 not even being significant. Global consumer culture theory, which has been defined as “a family of theoretical perspectives that address the dynamic relation-ships between consumer actions, the marketplace, and cultural meanings” (Arnould and Thompson 2002, p.868), has, indeed, taken hold in more advertising research. This finding makes sense because, conceptually, LCC is part of a country’s national culture. Is it is more difficult to embrace GCC (or LCC) in some consumption domains than in others? There are phenomena which appear to be spiritual, religious or even holy, but in fact they are not, they are Country comparison. Taken across AGCC and ALCC, lifestyle and clothing are the most diagnostic consumption domains for capturing people’s AGCC and ALCC. Unilever bets heavily on the future of “purpose branding” (Faber 2018). National culture appears to be more of a factor in explaining how much a country appreciates its own LCC than what its attitude toward GCC is. Consumer ethnocentrism also exhibits the largest effect size for ALCC; in fact, it has by far the largest effect size of all ALCC correlates. (, Bartsch, Fabian, Riefler, Petra, Diamantopoulos, Adamantios (, Batra, Rajeev, Ramaswamy, Venkatraman, Alden, Dana L., Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M., Ramachander, S. (, Baumgartner, Hans, Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M. (, Bearden, William O., Netemeyer, Richard G., Haws, Kelly L. (, Berry, John W., Kim, U., Power, S., Young, M., Bujaki, M. (, Crane, Diana, Kawashima, Nobuko, Kawasaki, Kenichi, eds. Any analysis of the role that GCC and LCC play in the behavior of consumers has to take into account consumers’ attitudes toward these two constructs. Market globalization has increased rapidly in the last few decades. Cultural Influences On Consumer Behavior - Cultural Influences On Consumer Behavior Culture: Is the accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms, and traditions among the members of an organization or society. His research involves the What this diversity of acculturation models shows, importantly, is that when individuals from one culture come into contact with another culture, assimilation into the dominant culture is by no means the only possible outcome. 2009), global consumption orientation (Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (2006), acculturation to global consumer culture (Cleveland and Laroche 2007), global identity (Tu, Khare, and Zhang (2011), and attitude toward global products (Steenkamp and De Jong 2010) as proxies for AGCC, based on the construct content and measurement, the similarity of their relations with other constructs, and their close association with GCC theory. Diffusion of Consumer Culture Global consumer culture positioning (GCCP) is a positioning strategy that associates the brand with global cultural meanings, reflects global culture norms and identifiers (global village membership, passport to global citizenship), portrays the brand as consumed by people around the world in a setting that is deterritorialized (could be anywhere, global connection hubs or imagery), and/or depicts the brand as coming from nowhere in particular and being consumed by globally recognized celebrities or people from any or all cultures. It is associated with low cultural identification, loss of identity, and problems of well-being (Oetting and Beauvais 1991). First, Steenkamp and De Jong did not provide information about effect sizes. Extant research is vast, has dealt with a variety of aspects of GCC and LCC, draws on different foundational literatures, and has appeared in publications for fields ranging from anthropology to international marketing (Table 1). Topics for which this article presents new empirical insights are in italics. In addition, Okazaki, Mueller, and Taylor reported that hard-sell appeals received higher ratings on attitudes toward the ad and purchase intention. The IRT model developed by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) can be used to quantify the diagnosticity of consumption domains for people’s attitudes toward GCC and LCC (by examining the discrimination parameters) and to assess the psychological barrier toward embracing any particular response options for any given consumption domain (by examining the easiness parameters). On the other hand, Hofstede’s dimensions exhibited several high correlations (in the range of .5 to .6). Overall, LCCP was used in 59.0% of the advertisements, versus 22.4% for GCCP (and 3.8% for FCCP). Find out about Lean Library here, If you have access to journal via a society or associations, read the instructions below. Shannahan, L. (2004). Managers leveraging LCC should opt for LCCP in their advertising and marketing strategy and, if successful, have imbued their brands with associations of heritage, authenticity, nostalgia, and local values. Bajde, Domen. 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In this article, we offer a thematic overview of the motivating interests, conceptual orientations, and theoretical agendas that characterize this research stream to date, with a particular focus on articles published in the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR). "Consumer Culture Theory: Ideology, Mythology and Meaning in Technology Consumption.". The article addresses behavioral and managerial consequences of GCC and LCC and concludes with areas for future research. (Carroll, 2014). Alternatively, the consumer may integrate elements of GCC into the LCC (or vice versa; Belk 2000). This finding does not mean that they are not important components of consumer culture, but rather that how people respond to these items is not so strongly related to their specific attitudes toward global and local consumer culture. In addition, GCCP is relatively more often used for newer product classes (e.g., high-tech durables [33.3%]) than for products that have deep local cultural roots (e.g., foods [18.6%]). By continuing to browse Even in an absolute sense, the predictive power of Inglehart’s framework for ALCC is higher than that of Hofstede or Schwartz, and this result does not even take parsimony into account. This textbook offers the definitive review of CCT by the leading scholars in the field. GCCP was developed based global consumer culture theory (GCCT), which asserted that a global culture of consumption is emerging as a result of the "increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures as well as through the development of cultures without a clear anchorage in any one territory (Okazaki, Mueller, and Taylor, 2010). Echoing this position, Sandikci and Ger (2002) argue that “modernization” for consumers does not mean global culture assimilation. In chapter 5 of „Culture and Consumption“ McCracken explains the movement of meaning from the culturally constituted world to consumer goods to individual consumers. National-Cultural Correlates of AGCC and ALCC. The article concludes with areas for future research. An initial focus on the demand side would make sense. These societies have high levels of national pride and take protectionist and nationalist attitudes. I expand on the Steenkamp and De Jong's (2010) findings in two ways, paralleling what I have done for the individual-level analysis. In general, one would expect that equity of brands using GCCP (LCCP) is higher among consumers who score high on AGCC (ALCC). The centrality of GCC and LCC in consumer behavior suggests that these cultural associations are an important source of brand equity, provided that the cultural positioning is aligned with consumers’ cultural attitudes. Future research should examine this situation in depth. [1] [2] [3] The term alludes to the overall impact and intellectual guidance exerted by the media (primarily TV, but also the press, radio and cinema), not only on public opinion but also on tastes and values . It shows that even under extreme circumstances (extremely high AGCC and extremely low ALCC), the probability of selecting the globalization response is much higher for brands than for lifestyle. Which individual-level factors matter the most? The field has recognized GCC and LCC as important marketing constructs, and international marketing researchers have developed an impressive body of empirical evidence concerning their importance to consumers and firms. 4.3 Consumer Culture Theory. Used to describe the “sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption” (Arnould & Thompson, 2005, p. 868), consumer culture theory acknowledges the core theoretical assumptions within this plethora of research. Second, it specifies four response options for each consumption domain. But at least two findings need further attention. Concerning the newly added variables, people with high ALCC are more agreeable, a finding consistent with that of Westjohn, Singh, and Magnusson (2012). Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) is an interdisciplinary field that comprises macro, interpretive, and critical approaches to and perspectives of consumer behavior. This finding is important because attitude toward the ad acts as a mediator of advertising effectiveness. The world is an increasingly interconnected place, and these interconnections influence individuals’ worldviews. These forces of globalism collide—and have to be reconciled—with the forces of localism that have been the defining feature for consumers for centuries, if not millennia. Description. For more information view the SAGE Journals Sharing page. Table 1. Rather than viewing culture as a fairly homogenous system of The unweighted scores exhibited an average downward bias of only 1.5%. Notes: PBG = perceived brand globalness; PLI = perceived local iconness. Their theorizing dictates that for the globalization response, a.,1 should be positive and a.,2 should be negative, because a rise in AGCC (ALCC) should have a positive (negative) effect on the tendency to opt for global consumption options only. Note that the marginalization response concerns rejection of all symbols of culture, be they global, hybrid, or local, often as a result of “acculturative stress” (Ryder, Alden, and Paulhus 2000, p. 53). By Natalie Maas on 21 Feb 2017. In recent years, globalization has been under attack from various sides. Because the target segments are global in scope and values, and global imagery and associations add to brand value, strong local adaptations are not advisable and may even detract from brand appeal. Experts from Kantar Worldpanel independently classified the positioning of each brand used in the United Kingdom as primarily GCCP/FCCP, primarily LCCP, or no dominant CCP. Select one or several countries/regions in the menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. Which country-level factors do a better job of predicting AGCC? The six consumption domains have less variation in diagnosticity for ALCC, but lifestyle scores highest and entertainment lowest. Go further, discover our cultural survey tool, the Culture Compass™ or join our open programme Introduction to Cross-Cultural Management. Other work examines managerial applications of GCC and LCC (supply side) or the interplay between the demand and supply sides. Furthermore, a consumer has to be extremely low on AGCC and ALCC before being likely to indicate alienation from cultural connotations with respect to food. For example, for consumer ethnocentrism, the correlation declined from .338 to .156, while for age, the correlation declined from .154 to .052. Acculturation refers to changes that individuals and groups of people experience as a result of coming into contact with another culture. Tradition also plays a substantial role. Just as Bay, a prominent cultural innovator, momentarily (but devastatingly!) (Dividing the sum score by the total number of items is not necessary, but it facilitates comparison of scores between studies if different studies use different numbers of items.) Successful local iconic brands have built strong associations with local cultural values, heritage, authenticity, national identity, and nostalgia for an imagined past (“the good old days”). Title: Global Consumer Culture 1 Global Consumer Culture. Such procedures are less suitable for the categorical response scales employed by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010). Thus, LCC remains a vital cultural force in today’s world. A simpler model is one that omits the easiness parameter and restricts all discrimination parameters to be either −1 or +1. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download. Second, national culture has much lower explanatory power for AGCC than for ALCC. 4 Consumer Culture theory define consumer culture theory, outline its general contours with the help of some recent examples, and finally outline the book itself. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Professor Mike Featherstone For the last edition, Prof. Featherstone added a … Are they anti-materialists who reject the modern consumption society and opt for voluntary simplicity? The consumer culture theory is a family of theoretical perspectives based on the study of consumption choices and behaviours, not from the traditional economic or psychological point of view, but on the social and cultural side of things which address the dynamic relationships between consumer actions, the marketplace, and cultural meanings. For the sake of brevity, let us glide over the initial decades by pointing out that the proto-CCT work (1930s-1970s) primarily sought to challenge the “theoretical axioms of micro-economics and [behaviorist and] cognitive psychology, the methodological prescriptions of quantification” prevalent in the marketing and consumer research (Thompson et al., 2013). Intercultural encounters may lead to varying degrees of individual-level change, such as newly learned social skills; modified expectations, attitudes, and values; and/or redefined cultural identities and self-identities (Ryder, Alden, and Paulhus 2000). Brand Strategy Using Global or Local Consumer Culture. This response is due to the higher easiness parameter for brands. Figure 3 plots the probability surfaces for lifestyle—the most diagnostic consumption domain—and brands, the domain that is of special importance to marketers. I discuss managerial applications of GCC and LCC in brand positioning and brand equity. To arrive at the probability of any particular response for a specific item, it is necessary to take into account the discrimination and easiness parameters for the focal response as well as for the other three responses options (see Equations 1 and 2). Unit weighting can be achieved by applying the following coding scheme to the item responses: Add the scores on AGCC and on ALCC across the items, and divide them by the number of items. (2016) studied which consumers are most likely to respond favorably to advertisements using GCCP or LCCP. This process, understood as cultural imperialism, [page needed] is associated with the destruction of cultural identities, dominated by a homogenized and westernized, consumer culture. Perhaps people’s global and/or local cultural attitudes do not matter for some domains but are important for others. This difference implies that the probability of disassociation from brands is higher and is less influenced by attitudes toward GCC and LCC. Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) looks at consumers, brands, and markets from a social and cultural vantage point. I use the aforementioned data set of Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) to expand on previous insights in two ways. International marketing research on GCC and LCC draws heavily on consumer culture theory (the domain of anthropologists and ethnographic consumer researchers), cultural globalization theory (studied by political scientists and sociologists), and acculturation theory (developed in psychology). Furthermore, despite the forces of globalism, local culture remains the central influence on consumer behavior and individual identity. Most international marketing researchers would agree that national cultures exist and affect market behavior. Approximately 31 responses were obtained per brand for a final sample of 611 respondents. Although perceived local iconness has a positive effect on behavioral outcomes such as purchase likelihood, Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden (2003) and Xie, Batra, and Peng (2015) found that the total effect of perceived brand globalness on purchase likelihood is greater than that of perceived local iconness. I investigate this question by reporting the (bivariate) correlation between each construct and AGCC and ALCC. fourth perspective on global consumer culture is an extension of global . Global segments that are especially receptive to GCCP and global brands are consumers with high AGCC (the effect is likely to be even stronger if they also have low ALCC), the youth segment, higher educated people, the global elite, and cosmopolitans. Larger values indicate that it is easier (more likely) to obtain the response in question. However, other researchers may disagree with these choices. This change in perspective is what Iwabuchi (2000, p. 269) calls “the shift from a Western gaze to a global gaze.” The concept of GCC itself could be further unpacked. The reason for glalienation likely varies between people, but it is important to study this reaction to the forces of globalism and localism. In sum, these results suggest that the unit-weighting model is a viable alternative for the more advanced IRT model for AGCC, but its use for ALCC is not recommended. By evaluating the absolute magnitude of the discrimination parameters, one can assess which consumption domains are more strongly linked to AGCC and/or ALCC. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. As such, firms benefit by serving cultures that already exist as opposed to trying to create a culture. As shown, perceived brand globalness has a greater effect on purchase likelihood than perceived local iconness does. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Such high correlations, especially in small samples, create severe multicollinearity problems and thus make interpretation of individual regression coefficients suspect. Given the importance of AGCC in international marketing, this issue requires urgent attention. If the brand is in fact sold around the world, using a local brand name and possibly employing translation and transliteration techniques should be considered. The positive relation with susceptibility to normative influences is in line with the findings of Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (2006). The data were collected by the global marketing research agencies GfK and Kantar Worldpanel. They found that a person’s global and local identity are correlated. Eight weeks later, the AGCC/ALCC measurement instrument was administered to the same respondents. The e-mail addresses that you supply to use this service will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. The Theory of Individual Behavior - ... consumer s budget line. consumerism to global consumption homo genization. Most of these findings are based on self-stated intentions and behavior. lost connection to technology, so to do scholars run the risk of “losing the plot” when pursuing entanglements of technology and culture. 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