Consumer Ethnocentrism, National Identity, and Consumer Cosmopolitanism as Drivers of Consumer Behavior: A Social Identity Theory Perspective
- Author(s)
- Katharina Zeugner-Roth, Vesna Zabkar, Adamantios Diamantopoulos
- Abstract
Consumers' preferences for domestic over imported products have been investigated in various isolated studies, but never in a single model incorporating several in-group and out-group consumer orientations at the same time. Building on social identity theory, this study develops and tests—in two countries—a conceptual model that assesses the relative influence of consumer ethnocentrism, national identity, and consumer cosmopolitanism on consumers' product judgments and willingness to buy domestic and foreign products. Furthermore, the study develops an empirically based typology of consumer segments using these sociopsychological traits and subsequently profiles them on consumption-relevant variables. The findings reveal several undiscovered patterns regarding the interplay of consumer ethnocentrism, national identity, and consumer cosmopolitanism as drivers of consumer behavior and offer managerial guidance on their relevance as segmentation variables.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy
- External organisation(s)
- Vlerick Business School, Universität Bern, University of Ljubljana
- Journal
- Journal of International Marketing
- Volume
- 23
- Pages
- 25-54
- No. of pages
- 30
- ISSN
- 1069-031X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1509/jim.14.0038
- Publication date
- 2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502052 Business administration
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Marketing, Business and International Management
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e9874de2-e30e-4704-945b-57174420dca0