Social media has changed the way consumers and advertisers behave. It is crucial to understand how consumers think, feel and act regarding social media, online advertising, and online shopping. In this new edition, contributors discuss new topics such as mobile technology, cyberbullying, online shopping, and the dark side of consumer behavior. This book is one of the first to present scholarly theory and research to help explain and predict online consumer behavior.

A new approach to teaching consumer behaviour, incorporating the latest issues in behavioural, psychological and sociological learning alongside new areas of research. Practitioner commentaries including Renault and Thinkbox, and extended case studies featuring Pinterest and Havaianas, place this fascinating subject firmly in a real world context.

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce.

Consumer Behaviour is an exciting, new European text written in student friendly language and designed specifically around how students learn. Using their considerably experience, Martin Evans, Ahmad Jamal and Gordon Foxall present a concise exploration of the key aspects of the Consumer Behaviour in a lively but rigorous manner. They also include topical issues, such as Consumer Misbehaviour, and the growing trend within marketing to attempt to understand consumers through an ever-expanding range of personalised transactional and profile data.

This concise paperback includes thirty-five cases and activities, each reviewed by a respected practitioner in the field, focusing specifically on consumer behavior concepts and illustrating how they're applied in the real world. The Importance of Customer Centricity; Customer Perception; Customer Learning and Memory; Customer Motivation and Personality; Segmenting, Targeting, and Positioning; Reference Group Influence and Diffusion of Innovation; Customer Attitudes; Marketing Communication and Attitude Change; Customer Decision Making; Qualitative and Interpretive Consumer Research; Cultural and Subcultural Influences Critical Thinking in Consumer Behavior: Cases and Experiential Exercises can be used as a standalone text or as a supplement to a consumer behavior textbook.