TY - JOUR
T1 - Hedonic shopping motivations in collectivistic and individualistic consumer cultures
AU - Evanschitzky, Heiner
AU - Emrich, Oliver
AU - Sangtani, Vinita
AU - Ackfeldt, Anna-Lena
AU - Reynolds, Kristy E.
AU - Arnold, Marc J.
N1 - NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International journal of research in marketing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Evanschitzky, H, Emrich, O, Sangtani, V, Ackfeldt, A-L, Reynolds, KE & Arnold, MJ, 'Hedonic shopping motivations in collectivistic and individualistic consumer cultures' International journal of research in marketing, vol.31, no.3 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2014.03.001
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We reinvestigate what constitutes hedonic customer experiences in collectivistic versus individualistic cultures using four country samples (N=2,336) in Germany and the U.S. as well as Oman and India. Across country samples, intrinsically enjoyable customer experiences are associated with the same underlying hedonic shopping motivations as shown in the original U.S. context. In comparison with individualistic cultures, we find that a hedonic shopping experience in collectivistic cultures is less strongly associated with selforiented gratification shopping, yet more strongly associated with others-oriented role shopping.
AB - We reinvestigate what constitutes hedonic customer experiences in collectivistic versus individualistic cultures using four country samples (N=2,336) in Germany and the U.S. as well as Oman and India. Across country samples, intrinsically enjoyable customer experiences are associated with the same underlying hedonic shopping motivations as shown in the original U.S. context. In comparison with individualistic cultures, we find that a hedonic shopping experience in collectivistic cultures is less strongly associated with selforiented gratification shopping, yet more strongly associated with others-oriented role shopping.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2014.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2014.03.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924086740
SN - 0167-8116
VL - 31
SP - 335
EP - 338
JO - International Journal of Research in Marketing
JF - International Journal of Research in Marketing
IS - 3
ER -