This textbook will be useful for students of MBA and PGDM courses. It will also be useful to attendees of Executive and Management Development Programs.Advertising and branding are inseparable aspects of a brand's success and understanding consumer behaviour acts as the key to achieve this. The textbook introduces the reader to different concepts of consumer behaviour through discussions on several leading brands and advertisements. It explains how the advertisements are intricately linked to behavioural (psychological) dimensions of the consumer. The concepts used are drawn from classical and contemporary literature on consumer behaviour. In order to keep the reader in sync with recent developments in the field, the book integrates social media and digital advertisements with traditional ones.Each chapter ends with suggested in-depth journal readings that are relevant to the concepts explained in the respective chapter and a set of discussion points to aid classroom teaching and learning process.Key Features:* Focuses on building a strong conceptual perspective that triggers critical thinking and detects alternatives in a given context* Provides real-life examples of brands (creating theory-practice linkages)* Covers several well-known Indian brands across product categories* Includes online resources explaining the use of the book for instructors of consumer behaviour courses and related subjects

This book is designed to familiarise readers with a wide range of managerial issues faced by modern advertising strategies in planning, implementing, and controlling the advertising efforts of various enterprises. It contains numerous examples of successful advertising images alongside accompanying commentary to illustrate just what goes into making an effective advertisement. The positive role played by advertising in the market process has been largely ignored by academic economists. It is only recently, since the modern economic revolution, that economists have realized the benefits of advertising and have joined the research agenda developed by researchers in marketing and other business fields. Consumer Behaviour (CB) intended for students of MBA specializing in marketing, undertakes detailed discussions to explain and analyse behaviour of Indian consumers, and strategies used by marketers to deal with them. Marketers need to understand the buying behaviour of consumers while designing their advertisements for the desired impact. Advertisements play an essential role in creating an image of a product in the minds of consumers. Advertisements must be catchy and communicate relevant information to consumers. Understanding the needs of the consumer is really important when it comes to creating the right advertisement for the right audience. Remember it is only through advertisements; individuals are able to connect with your brand. This book provides an excellent introduction to the topic of how reasons and emotions combine to shape the consumption experience by influencing the analytic, hedonic, social, moral and even reptilian aspects of the human condition in the marketplace. Thus the material presented here would be of interest as well as of great use to the students, teachers and professionals in the field.

About the Book: This book, Consumer Behaviour and Advertising Management, is addressed primarily to the students pursuing courses in management in universities and students in India. It explains the fundamentals of the subjects and is illustrated with practical examples in Indian environment . It covers almost all the topics required to be studied in the field of consumer behaviour and advertising management. It covers the syllabi of IET. The text on consumer behaviour has been amply made clear with case studies. The chapters on advertising, besides dealing with promotional tools, also exp.

The Second Edition of this popular text brings up-to-date Marieke de Mooij’s important analysis of the impact of culture on consumer behavior worldwide. The author shows how it is increasingly vital for marketing students—tomorrow’s marketing professionals—to understand the limits of consistent brand identities and universal advertising campaigns. Consumer behavior is not converging across countries, and therefore it is of even greater importance to understand, and be able to respond to, differences in behavior. This edition offers a new chapter, Chapter 7, on culture, communication, and media behavior that extends the prior edition’s discussion on communication theories and advertising styles to cover differences in media usage worldwide, particularly the use of the Internet.

'A wonderful (and very unusual) balance between areas of marketing that are often at odds with each other (or, worse yet, unaware of each other)... I recommend it to any student, researcher, or manager in marketing' Peter Fader, Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor; and Professor of Marketing, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 'Exceptional for the amount of relevant research that is presented and explained. Students who have read and understood this text are likely to be much more of use to industry' Fergus Hampton, Managing Director, Millward Brown Precis Written in a focused and accessible form by respected marketing academics, Consumer Behaviour helps readers to develop analytical and evidence-based thinking in marketing and avoid more formulaic approaches that lack the support of research. With a strong focus on the use of research, this book will really appeal to the specific needs of higher-level students. The book covers important material that is often missing in consumer behaviour texts. For example, whole chapters are devoted to brand loyalty, brand equity, biases in decision-making, word of mouth, the response to price and the effect of advertising. Shorter reviews cover evidence on topics such as loyalty programmes, the response to delay and retail atmospherics. Chapters are quite short and divided into sections. Each chapter contains exercises designed to draw out key ideas and consolidate understanding, and there are suggestions for further reading. A website to support the book has an Instructor's Manual that offers PowerPoint slides, discussion of exercises, computer programs, a suggested Masters-level course, and a Word file of references to assist students writing assignments.

In this text, the authors present current research in the study of advertising methods and perceptions and their impact on consumer behaviour. The topics discussed include the use of tourism distribution channels for advertising a religious 'imagined community' in Arcadia, Greece; investing in culture and intercultural relations for advertising and sustainable development of the contemporary European city with the framework of international city branding; a social psychological perspective of marketing strategies appealing to the consumers' uniqueness; social media advertising and its important role in representing and influencing consumer choices; cultural characteristics and how they moderate consumer response to positive and negative feeling advertisements; and consumers and brand loyalty.

In today's time there is no more dynamic and fascinating field to either practise or study than branding, promotion and advertising. But in today's growing environment this field is undergoing dramatic changes that are changing advertising and promotion forever. The changes are coming from all sides-clients demanding better results from their advertising and promotional money; lean but highly creative smaller advertising agencies; sales promotion and direct-marketing firms, as well as interactive agencies, which want a larger share of the billions of dollars companies spend each year promoting their brands and services; consumers who no longer respond to traditional forms of advertising; and new methods that may reinvent the very process of advertising. This book is an attempt to include all these and many more similar topics related to branding and advertising in a pragmatic and simple way.