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- Title page
- Imprint page
- Contents
- Author team
- General editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to customer behaviour
- Learning outcomes
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 What is consumer behaviour
- 1.2.1 Types of customers
- 1.2.2 The three roles of customers
- 1.2.3 Mental and physical activities
- Individual factors that influence the decision-making process
- Group factors that influence the decision-making process
- 1.3 The importance of customer behaviour
- 1.3.1 Customer satisfaction and customer retention
- 1.3.2 The marketing concept
- Production orientation
- Sales orientation
- Marketing orientation
- 1.3.3 Customer focus
- 1.4 The role of customer behaviour in marketing strategy
- 1.5 The nature of customer behaviour
- 1.5.1 External influences
- 1.5.2 Internal influences
- 1.5.3 Market characteristics
- 1.5.4 Personal characteristics
- 1.5.5 The customers (with their self-concept and lifestyle)
- 1.5.6 The customer decision-making process
- 1.6 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 2: Creating market value for consumers
- Learning outcomes
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Defining value
- 2.3 The market value of a product or service
- 2.3.1 Market values sought by users
- Universal value – performance
- Personal values – social and emotional
- 2.3.2 Market values sought by payers
- Universal value – price
- Personal values – credit and financing
- 2.3.3 Market values sought by buyers
- Universal value – service
- Personal values – convenience and personalisation
- 2.4 The value bundling of products and services
- 2.4.1 Non-durable goods
- 2.4.2 Durable goods
- 2.4.3 Services
- 2.5 The organisation’s perspective on measuring value
- 2.5.1 Determining the benchmark of expected value
- 2.5.2 Formulating a strategy for delivering value to the consumer
- 2.5.3 Measuring value delivery
- 2.5.4 Investigating deviations and adapting the strategy
- 2.6 Marketing implications of the concept of value
- 2.7 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Chapter 3: Market characteristics
- Learning outcomes
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Market characteristics and their influence on customer behaviour
- 3.2.1 Demographic characteristics of the South African population
- Individuals
- Households
- 3.2.2 Economic factors influencing customer behaviour
- 3.2.3 Governmental factors influencing customer behaviour
- 3.2.4 Physical conditions influencing customer behaviour
- 3.2.5 Social factors influencing customer behaviour
- 3.2.6 Technological factors influencing customer behaviour
- 3.3 Developing trends that influence customer behaviour
- 3.3.1 Green marketing
- 3.3.2 Cause-related marketing
- 3.3.3 Marketing to gay and lesbian customers
- 3.3.4 Gender-based marketing
- 3.3.5 Rising black middle class
- 3.4 Marketing implications
- Case study: Google Stations
- 3.5 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 4: Culture and consumer behaviour
- Learning outcomes
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The nature of culture
- 4.3 Evolving nature of culture
- 4.4 Cultural factors affecting consumer behaviour
- 4.4.1 What cultural factors are
- Religion as a subculture
- Geographic subculture
- Age as a subculture
- Gender as a subculture
- Occupation as a subculture
- Social class as a subculture
- Nationality as a subculture
- Language as a subculture
- Race as a subculture
- 4.5 Subcultural influences on marketing decisions
- 4.6 Effect of culture on consumers
- 4.7 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 5: Reference groups and social class
- Learning outcomes
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Reference groups
- 5.2.1 Types of reference groups
- Primary groups
- Secondary groups
- Aspirational group
- Dissociative group
- Family
- 5.2.2 The use of reference groups in marketing
- 5.2.3 Characteristics of reference groups
- 5.2.4 Reference groups and advertising
- 5.3 Social class
- 5.3.1 Social classes and their buying patterns
- 5.3.2 Social class and consumer behaviour
- Upper-upper class
- Lower-upper class
- Upper-middle class
- Lower-middle class
- Upper-lower class
- Lower-lower class
- 5.3.3 Marketing strategy and the social classes
- 5.3.4 The Living Standards Measure (LSM) and the new SocioEconomic Measure (SEM) models
- 5.4 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Chapter 6: Personal characteristics
- Learning outcomes
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Religion
- 6.3 Race
- 6.3.1 Race and products
- 6.3.2 Race and marketing communications
- 6.3.3 The Living Standards Measure (LSM)
- 6.4 Gender
- 6.4.1 The changing role of women
- 6.4.2 The changing role of men
- 6.4.3 Non-binary marketing
- 6.5 Age
- 6.5.1 Defining age
- 6.5.2 The importance of age to marketers
- 6.5.3 Age subcultures
- Seniors
- Baby boomers
- Generation X
- Generation Y
- Generation Z
- Comparing the different age cohorts
- 6.5.4 General tips for multigenerational marketing
- Case study: Tropika
- 6.6 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 7: Customer perception and learning
- Learning outcomes
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Defining customer perception
- 7.3 The customer perception process defined
- 7.4 The importance of customer perception
- 7.5 The customer as a perceiver
- 7.5.1 The nature of perception
- Perception is selective
- Perception is subjective
- Perception is based on the individual’s frame of reference
- 7.5.2 The perceptual process discussed
- Exposure
- Attention
- Interpretation
- Recall (memory)
- 7.6 Customer learning
- 7.6.1 The nature of learning
- 7.6.2 The elements of learning
- Stimulus
- Response
- Reinforcement
- 7.6.3 Theories of learning
- Classical conditioning
- Instrumental conditioning
- Cognitive learning
- 7.7 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 8: Customer motivation
- Learning outcomes
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The nature of motivation
- 8.2.1 Needs, motives and objectives
- 8.2.2 Need arousal
- Physiological arousal
- Emotional arousal
- Cognitive arousal
- Environmental arousal
- 8.2.3 The drive state
- 8.3 The classification of motives (needs)
- 8.3.1 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Level 1: Physiological needs
- Level 2: The need for safety
- Level 3: Belongingness and love needs (social needs)
- Level 4: Esteem needs (ego needs)
- Level 5: Self-actualisation
- 8.3.2 McGuire’s psychological motives
- McGuire’s internal motives
- McGuire’s external motives
- 8.3.3 Economic and emotional classification
- Economic criteria
- Emotional criteria
- 8.4 Psychographics
- 8.4.1 Psychographics and lifestyle
- 8.4.2 Values determine lifestyle
- 8.4.3 Psychographic profiles
- 8.4.4 The uses of psychographics
- 8.5 Motivational research
- 8.5.1 Depth interviews
- 8.5.2 Projective techniques
- Case study: The Oliver family
- 8.6 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 9: Customer attitudes
- Learning outcomes
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The nature of customer attitudes
- 9.2.1 Definition of customer attitudes
- 9.2.2 Attitudes as a combination of interrelated beliefs and values
- 9.3 The ABC model of attitude
- 9.3.1 The affective component
- 9.3.2 The behavioural component
- 9.3.3 The cognitive component
- 9.3.4 Component consistency
- 9.4 The functions of attitudes
- 9.4.1 The adjustment or utilitarian function
- 9.4.2 The ego-defensive function
- 9.4.3 The value-expressive function
- 9.4.4 The knowledge function
- 9.5 Attitude formation
- 9.5.1 Classical conditioning
- 9.5.2 Instrumental conditioning
- 9.5.3 Cognitive learning theory
- 9.5.4 Experience
- 9.5.5 External authorities
- 9.5.6 Marketing communications
- 9.6 Attitude change
- 9.6.1 Changing the affective component
- Classical conditioning
- Producing positive affect towards the advertisement
- Mere exposure
- 9.6.2 Changing the behavioural component
- 9.6.3 Changing the cognitive component
- Changing beliefs
- Shifting performance
- Adding beliefs
- Changing the ideal
- 9.6.4 Factors that influence attitude change
- Case study: Tropika
- 9.7 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 10: Personality and self-concept
- Learning outcomes
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The nature of personality
- 10.3 The characteristics of personality
- 10.3.1 Personality as reflecting individual differences
- 10.3.2 Personality as consistent and enduring
- 10.3.3 Personality as a whole actualising itself in an environment
- 10.3.4 Personality can change
- 10.4 Personality theories
- 10.4.1 Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality
- 10.4.2 Neo-Freudian theory
- 10.4.3 Trait theory
- 10.4.4 Gestalt theory
- 10.5 The influence of personality on lifestyle
- 10.6 The value of personality to marketers
- 10.7 Self and self-concept
- 10.7.1 One self or multiple selves?
- 10.7.2 The makeup of the self-concept
- 10.7.3 The extended self
- 10.7.4 Altering the self
- Case study: Jenna Clifford Designs
- 10.8 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 11: Market segmentation
- Learning outcomes
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The STP process
- 11.3 Segmentation of markets
- 11.3.1 Demographic segmentation
- 11.3.2 Geographic segmentation
- 11.3.3 Lifestyle and psychographic segmentation
- Combining demographic and psychographic segmentation
- 11.3.4 Usage or behavioural segmentation
- 11.3.5 Needs/benefit segmentation
- 11.3.6 Market value-based segmentation
- 11.3.7 Purchase decision makers
- 11.3.8 Segmentation in business-to-business markets (B2B)
- B2B markets have a more complex decision-making unit
- B2B buyers are more ‘rational’
- B2B products are often more complex
- B2B target audiences are smaller than consumer target audiences
- Personal relationships are more important in B2B markets
- B2B buyers are longer-term buyers
- B2B markets drive innovation less than consumer markets
- B2B markets have fewer behavioural and needs-based segments
- 11.4 Developing segment profiles
- 11.5 Targeting
- 11.6 Positioning
- 11.6.1 Developing a positioning strategy
- Analysing competitors’ positions
- Identifying competitive advantage
- 11.6.2 Repositioning
- Case study: Life insurance – emerging middle-class market
- 11.7 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Chapter 12: The consumer decision – making process
- Learning outcomes
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The consumer decision-making process
- 12.3 Buying situations
- 12.4 The stages in the decision-making process
- 12.4.1 Problem recognition
- 12.4.2 The search for and processing of information
- Consumer involvement in decision making
- Types of consumer decision making
- Habitual decision making
- Limited decision making
- Extended decision making
- 12.4.3 Evaluation of alternative products and services
- 12.4.4 The response, or buying decision
- 12.4.5 Post-buying evaluation or response
- Post-buying satisfaction
- Post-buying dissatisfaction
- A neutral or indifferent behavioural response
- Post-buying conflict
- 12.5 Marketing implications
- Case study: Nisha buys a new car
- 12.6 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 13: Household or family decision making
- Learning outcomes
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The household or family as a primary reference group
- 13.2.1 The different types of families and their unique dynamics
- 1. Nuclear family
- Strengths of nuclear families
- Weaknesses of nuclear families
- 2. Single parent family
- Strengths of single-parent families
- Weaknesses of single-parent families
- 3. Extended family
- Strengths of extended families
- Weaknesses of extended families
- 4. Childless family
- Strengths of childless families
- Weaknesses of childless families
- 5. Stepfamily
- Strengths of stepfamilies
- Weaknesses of stepfamilies
- 6. Grandparent family
- Strengths of grandparent families
- Weaknesses of grandparent families
- Conclusion
- 13.3 The functions of the household
- 13.3.1 The socialisation of household members
- 13.3.2 Economic well-being
- 13.3.3 Emotional support
- 13.4 Suitable household lifestyles
- 13.5 Household decision making
- 13.5.1 Role behaviour
- 13.5.2 Husband-and-wife decision making
- 13.5.3 How spouses influence the decision-making process
- 13.6 The household life cycle
- 13.6.1 The traditional household life cycle
- Stage 1: Bachelorhood
- Stage 2: Honeymooners
- Stage 3: Parenthood
- Stage 4: Post-parenthood
- Stage 5: Dissolution
- 13.6.2 The contemporary household life cycle
- 13.7 Household expenditure patterns
- Case study: Household decision-making roles
- 13.8 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 14: Organisational buying behaviour
- Learning outcomes
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Who are organisational customers?
- 14.3 The importance of organisational buying behaviour
- 14.4 The buying process
- 14.5 Buying situations
- 14.5.1 Straight rebuy
- 14.5.2 Modified rebuy
- 14.5.3 New task
- 14.6 Integrating the buying process with buying situations
- 14.7 The buying centre
- 14.8 Forces that shape organisational buying
- 14.8.1 Environmental forces
- 14.8.2 Organisational forces
- 14.8.3 Group forces
- 14.8.4 Individual forces
- 14.9 Relationships in B2B markets
- 14.9.1 Types of B2B relationship
- 14.9.2 The social dimensions of relationships
- Relationship policies and practices
- Relationship commitment
- Trust
- Mutual co-operation
- Relationship satisfaction
- 14.9.3 Buyer−supplier interaction in a B2B context
- Matching the uncertainties and abilities of both parties
- The role of supplier abilities in reducing customer uncertainties
- The role of customer abilities in reducing supplier uncertainties
- 14.10 The interaction approach
- 14.11 Implications of recent developments in organisational buying
- 14.12 Putting theory and practice together
- Case study: Komatsu
- 14.13 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 15: Consumer loyalty
- Learning outcomes
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Brand loyalty
- 15.2.1 The influence of brand names on product preference
- 15.2.2 Brand image
- 15.2.3 Brand preference
- 15.2.4 The formation of brand loyalty
- 15.2.5 Brand loyalty and repeat buying behaviour
- 15.2.6 Complex decision making and brand loyalty
- 15.2.7 Brand loyalty and vulnerability
- 15.2.8 The stages of brand loyalty
- Stage 1: Brand awareness
- Stage 2: Brand trial
- Stage 3: Brand image
- Stage 4: Brand preference
- Stage 5: Brand habit
- Stage 6: Brand loyalty
- 15.2.9 Brand loyalty and brand segmentation
- 15.2.10 Determining the brand-loyal segment
- The behavioural approach to brand loyalty
- The cognitive approach to brand loyalty
- The combined behavioural and attitudinal approach
- 15.2.11 Brand loyalty correlates
- Consumer buying habits
- Shopping pattern characteristics
- Market structure characteristics
- 15.2.12 Models of brand loyalty
- Deterministic models
- Stochastic models
- 15.2.13 Consumer behaviour and brand type
- Manufacturer brands
- Store brands
- Generic brands
- 15.3 Store loyalty
- 15.4 Marketing implications
- Case study: Assessing brand loyalty
- 15.5 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 16: Building relationships with customers
- Learning outcomes
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Relationship marketing
- 16.3 Customer relationship management (CRM)
- 16.3.1 The importance of securing a sound CRM foundation
- 16.3.2 Social media and the management of a new generation of customers
- 16.4 A movement towards customer engagement
- 16.5 From customer relationship management to customer engagement
- 16.6 The importance of customer engagement in a competitive business environment such as South Afric
- 16.7 How to improve customer engagement to strengthen future relationship building
- 16.8 Relationship loyalty
- 16.8.1 Customer loyalty
- Antecedents to loyalty
- Loyalty-type behaviour
- 16.8.2 Customer retention
- 16.8.3 Lifetime value
- 16.9 The individual customer approach
- Customer rejection
- 16.10 Internal marketing as a strategy to enhance external customer service
- 16.10.1 Enhancing employee relationships through internal marketing
- 16.10.2 Training and motivating employees
- Case study: Corriwood – a customer experience from hell
- 16.11 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Chapter 17: The online world and customer behaviour
- Learning outcomes
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 The three main functions of the web
- 17.2.1 A communications function
- 17.2.2 An information function
- 17.2.3 A business function
- 17.3 The internet versus the web
- 17.3.1 Advantages of the web as a business tool
- 17.3.2 The web, online business and customer behaviour
- 17.3.3 The advent of social media
- 17.3.4 Social media as a business channel
- 17.4 Online technologies support customer-centrism
- 17.4.1 The danger of the ‘invisible customer’
- 17.4.2 Dealing with online paradigm shifts
- The impact of COVID-19
- Shopping is about delivery
- Disintermediation and re-intermediation
- Omnichannel shopping
- Personalisation and customisation
- Shopping on demand
- Customers as co-producers
- Blurring between customer and business markets
- A power shift to customers (customer pull)
- The automation of consumption
- 17.4.3 Facilitating customer decision making through online media
- Problem recognition
- Information search
- Evaluation of alternatives
- Buying
- The post-buying experience
- 17.4.4 Habitual decision making
- 17.4.5 Getting to know individual customers
- 17.5 Online customer behaviour
- 17.5.1 Online shopping behaviour
- 17.5.2 Isolation and integration
- 17.5.3 An abbreviated attention span
- 17.5.4 Instant gratification
- 17.5.5 Your world in a monitor
- Web usability
- 17.5.6 Dependence on shopping agents
- 17.5.7 Too much information
- Case study: Ford: an example of a customer-centred car producer?
- 17.6 Summary
- Questions for self-assessment
- Paragraph/essay-type questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- References
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
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