CB: A South-Asian Perspective, takes into account and integrates the inputs from discipline-specific focus groups, conversations, and surveys; and presents the content in a visually-engaging page layout, keeping intact the high-quality content instructors need. It adopts a persuasive visual medium and offers a balanced approach, demonstrating how to use consumer behavior information gathered through different research tools to make strategic marketing decisions. The book aims at enjoyable reading and easy attention using comprehensive pedagogical features.
- Systematic and methodical manner of coverage of topics
- Visually-appealing presentation
- Inclusion of real-life data/information of Indian consumers’ behavior relevant to each chapter
- Case studies at the end of every Part of the book
- The ever-changing macro and micro environments have considerable influence on consumer behavior, which are highlighted as box items in the chapters to provoke the thought process of the reader in formulating the appropriate marketing strategies.
- Chapter “In Review” pages at the end of each chapter
- Rich pedagogical features such as
- page-side definitions of important terms
- learning outcomes
- Chapter-end exercises
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PART 1 Introduction
1 What Is CB and Why Should I Care?
2 Value and the Consumer Behavior Framework
PART 2 Internal Influences
3 Consumer Learning Starts Here: Perception
4 Comprehension, Memory, and Cognitive Learning
5 Motivation and Emotion: Driving Consumer Behavior 107
6 Personality, Lifestyles, and the Self-Concept 131
7 Attitudes and Attitude Change 153
PART 3 External Influences
8 Group and Interpersonal Influence
9 Consumer Culture
10 Microcultures
PART 4 Situations and Decision Making
11 Consumers in Situations
12 Decision Making I: Need Recognition and Search
13 Decision Making II: Alternative Evaluation and Choice
14 Consumer Behavior Research and Modeling
PART 5 Consumption and Beyond
15 Consumption to Satisfaction
16 Consumer Relationships
17 Consumer and Marketing Misbehavior with Consumerism
18 Organizational Buying Behavior
Endnotes
Glossary
Index
Ashutosh Mohan
Ashutosh Mohan is an assistant professor at Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has done his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, BHU and Ph.D. from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)—University of Delhi (DU).