scholarly journals Brand Origin Identification by Consumers: A Classification Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Balabanis ◽  
Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Brand Evaluation ◽  
Brand Evaluations ◽  
Origin Identification

The authors apply a classification perspective to (1) examine the extent to which consumers can identify the correct country of origin (COO) of different brands of consumer durables, (2) investigate the factors facilitating/hindering correct COO identification, and (3) trace the implications of correct/incorrect COO identification on brand evaluation. The results from a U.K. sample indicate that consumers’ ability to classify brands correctly according to their origin is limited and also reveal substantial differences in the classification of different brands to their COO. Moreover, the key antecedent of correct COO identification is consumer ethnocentrism, with sociodemographics (e.g., age, gender) also playing a role. Finally, the authors find that though there are differences in brand evaluations depending on whether the correct COO was identified, such differences are not observed for all brands investigated.

Country of origin effects on brand image, brand evaluation, and purchase intention

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namhoon Kim ◽  
Eunha Chun ◽  
Eunju Ko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Brand Evaluation ◽  
Brand Evaluations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how national stereotype, country of origin (COO), and fashion brand’s images influence consumers’ brand evaluations and purchase intentions regarding fashion collections. Korea (Seoul) and overseas (New York and Paris) collections are compared and analyzed. Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct a structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis using data collected from Seoul, New York, and Paris. Findings Consumers make higher brand evaluations and ultimately have stronger purchase intentions toward fashion collections from countries that have stronger COO and fashion brand images. In the context of fashion collections, COO image is greatly influenced by a nation’s political economic and cultural artistic images. In addition, comparing the domestic Seoul fashion collection with New York and Paris collections reveals that a national stereotype images, COO images of fashion collection, and fashion brand’s images cause different brand evaluation and purchase intention. Originality/value The overarching value of the study is that it expands COO research, which has been limited to actual products. Also, the results provide a basic foundation for establishing marketing strategy based on COO image as a way to enhance the development and image of fashion collection.

scholarly journals TÜKETİCİLERİN ETNOSENTRİK EĞİLİMLERİNDE ROLÜ OLAN FAKTÖRLERİN ETKİSİNİN İNCELENMESİ: KARS İLİNDE BİR UYGULAMA

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yağmur KERSE ◽  
Levent GELİBOLU
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Study Data ◽  
City Center ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Survey Technique ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Openness

Consumer ethnocentrism that is evaluated of suitability on moral grounds of buying foreign a product by consumers is important for understanding their purchasing preferences. The aim of this study is to research the effect of country of origin and socio-psychologic factors consist of cultural openness, collectivism/individualism, conservatism on consumer ethnocentrism. In the study, data were gathered through a survey technique from consumers in the city center of Kars and these data were analysed by using SPSS 18. According to analysis, there are impact of country of origin, collectivism/individualism and conservatism on consumer ethnocentrism.

scholarly journals INTEGRATING THE IMPACT OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (COC) AND CONSUMER ETHNOCENTRISM (CE) ON GLOBAL MARKETING (GM) AND GROWING CONSUMER TRENDS (GCT) EVIDENCES FROM PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES IN INDONES

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kardison Lumban Batu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Global Marketing ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries ◽  
The Impact

The current research is empirically investigated the impact of country of origin and consumer ethnocentrism on growing customer trend directly also through global marketing as mediating variable. It is also assessed the impact of global marketing on growing consumer trend. By deploying Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS, three independent variables were analyzed, country of origin (CoC), global marketing (GM), consumer ethnocentrism (CE) and growing consumer trend (GCT) as dependent variable. The findings showed that both country of origin (CoC) and consumer ethnocentrism (CE) have significant effect on global marketing (GM) as well as on growing consumer trend (GCT). Further, global marketing (GM) successfully mediated and showed significant effect of both country of origin and consumer ethnocentrism. Finally global marketing has significant impact on growing consume trend.

scholarly journals Effects of country-of-origin stereotypes on consumer responses to product-harm crises

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Barbarossa ◽  
Patrick De Pelsmacker ◽  
Ingrid Moons
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Blame Attributions ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Consumer Country ◽  
A Company

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate “how” and “when” the stereotypes of competence and warmth, that are evoked by a foreign company’s country-of-origin (COO), affect blame attributions and/or attitudes toward a company’s products when a company is involved in a product-harm crisis. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 (n=883) analyzes the psychological mechanisms through which perceived COO competence and warmth differently affect blame attributions and evaluative responses. Study 2 (n=1,640) replicates Study 1’s findings, and it also investigates how consumer ethnocentrism, animosity toward a country, and product category characteristics moderate the hypothesized COO’s effects. Findings COO competence leads to more favorable attitudes toward the involved company’s products. This effect increases when the company sells high-involvement or utilitarian products. COO warmth leads to more favorable attitudes toward the involved company’s products directly as well as indirectly by diminishing blame attributions. These effects increase when consumers are highly ethnocentric, or the animosity toward a foreign country is high. Originality/value This paper frames the investigation of COO stereotypes in a new theoretical and empirical setting, specifically, a product-harm crisis. It demonstrates that consumers differently evaluate a potential wrongdoing company and its harmful products in a product-harm crisis based on their perceptions of a company’s COO competence and warmth. Finally, it defines the moderating effects of individual, consumer-country-related and product characteristics on the hypothesized COO effects.

Consumer Ethnocentrism and Country-of-Origin Effects in the Moroccan Market

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Hamelin ◽  
Meriam Ellouzi ◽  
Andrew Canterbury
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Country Of Origin Effects ◽  
Origin Effects

Methods of multivariate analysis of NIR reflectance spectra for classification of yerba mate

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (19) ◽  
pp. 7621-7627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Caetano Alexandre Marcelo ◽  
Camila Alves Martins ◽  
Dirce Pozebon ◽  
Marco Flôres Ferrão
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Reflectance Spectra ◽  
Yerba Mate

A methodology based on multivariate analysis of the NIR reflectance spectra was developed for yerba mate classification. All brands of yerba mate analyzed were correctly classified according to the country of origin.

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