Shopping addiction tendency is defined as being so occupied about shopping that consumers become driven by uncontrollable shopping urges and as a result of facing negative psychological, social and financial consequences. Based on a field study on university students (N=372), this paper examines hedonic shopping, escapism and negative mood reduction, as motivational determinants of shopping addiction tendency, which is a relatively less studied area of consumer behavior in Turkey. The findings indicate that, hedonic shopping, escapism and negative mood reduction all have significant effect on shopping addiction. Getting its mainstream studies from compulsive buying literature, shopping addiction literature focuses mainly on the enjoyment gathered from shopping action However this study provides new insights into potential antecedents of shopping addiction as negativity avoidance and escapism, which are negative psychological states with respect to shopping addicts quest for shopping enjoyment.
Though its recent popularity on consumer preferences and academic environment, history of counterfeiting dates back to Romans. Such an ancient term has led researchers of this study to illuminate the existing body of research on counterfeiting through a content analysis; and identify theoretical gaps and opportunities for further research from marketing perspective. Based on these objectives, the structure of the study is as follows. The first section of the article provides some background information on counterfeiting and following sections present the research methodology as well as report the main findings of 65 articles published through last 37 years. The present study provides a valuable systematic review and suggestions for further research to the researchers interested in the motivations of counterfeit consumption.
Volunteerism is a means of contributing either to the society, the organization, or the individual. Either for satisfying individual's self-interest or for altruistically helping others, volunteering creates value. The study aims to examine the impact of self-versus other-oriented messages on intentions and attitudes of existing and potential volunteers. Two studies were designed using fictitious foundations, to find out the potential effects of attitude towards recruitment ads and intention to volunteer for the organization. According to Study 1, which consisted of mainly volunteering adults, the other-oriented message is found to be more activating than the self-oriented message. However, in the Study 2, which comprised of a mainly non-volunteer student sample, the two appeal's intentional effects were in opposite direction. Participants were found out to have higher intention to volunteer for the organizations when self-oriented messages were used. Follow-up analysis of the combined data revealed that non-volunteers' intention to volunteer was higher with self-oriented appeal than with an other-oriented appeal. These findings are discussed in terms of the implications on volunteerism and linked to recent findings regarding the role of self-and other-oriented motives on determining how to approach both volunteers and non-volunteers in an effective manner.
With globalizing world, formal and the dimensional structure of market competition has been changing dramatically. In such a rapidly changing environment, companies should not just meet unlimited consumer needs, but also adopt a certain social responsibility philiosophy towards the society. In that sense, corporate social responsibility is one of the important concepts that play a role in formation of positive perceptions of the target groups. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the changing nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) over years, and also find the effect of social media on communicating corporate social responsibility. In that sense, firstly the need for CSR is to be discussed in different perspectives. Alternative definitions are provided over years to sense the evolving nature of the concept. Then in the last part, new media and social media's impact on CSR, as of benefits/challenges provided and alternative social media tools to be used in communication, are discussed.
The main objective of this chapter is to gain an in-depth understanding of the social media addiction construct. For this purpose, prior studies on social media addiction are reviewed. Based on this review the influence of several personal, social, and situational factors on social media addiction are examined. Firstly, personal factors such as demographic characteristics, personality traits, self-esteem, well-being, loneliness, anxiety, and depression are studied for their impact on social media addiction. Next, the social correlates and consequents of social media addiction are identified, namely need for affiliation, subjective norms, personal, professional, and academic life. Lastly, situational factors like amount of social media use and motives of use are inspected. Following the review of literature an empirical study is made to analyze factors that discriminate addicted social media users from non-addicted social media users on the basis of these different factors.
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