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Beyond Bling: Comparing Conspicuous Consumption in Today’s Society

Funded by British Academy, I led project with Professor Keyoor Purani at IIMK. The project looks at the influence of economic conditions on contemporary conspicuous consumption tendencies among consumers in the UK and India. The project findings demonstrate the variations between the British and Indian consumers showing how socio-economic market conditions influence conspicuous consumption.

Comparing the luxury brand value

Luxury brands are bought in different countries for different values. This study evaluates those values consumers consider and provides a comparison between Indian and British luxury consumers.

How in-store sampling influences your choice?

Can in-store sampling motivate you to act and purchase a cosmetics product? In this research, we looked at the significant motivations driving cosmetics shopping in retail setting, and examined how in-store sampling can be used to enhance choice goal attainment. We also focused on the influence of choice goal attainment on decision satisfaction when in-store sampling is used as a promotion technique.

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Does competitive intelligence help improve the bottomline? (Part 2)

In my last post on competitive intelligence, I discussed how competitive intelligence can help improve the bottomline in emerging markets. In our article published in Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, we observed that Competitive Intelligence (CI) activities have an impact on the market performance of Indian firms. In this post, I want to focus on the following three questions.   What are the macro and micro environmental drivers of Competitive Intelligence (CI) for Indian firms? How are CI activities organized within Indian firms? How is the usage and dissemination of CI taking place within Indian firms?   [Read Story]

Luxury brands in recession: Developing a better value proposition and luxury brand strategy

Commenting on my last post on ‘luxury value propositions‘, Mostafa Huga and Thangaraj asked a very pertinent question, ‘how should managers’ build a better value proposition and a marketing strategy for luxury brands in recession?’ Brand management is extremely crucial for luxury industry in customer retention and keeping consumers loyal. Focusing on value propositions can help managers not only in building a better corporate branding strategy but also a good customer relationship management campaign.

As I stated in my earlier blogs (Managing luxury brands in recession) and (Gucci’s response) that managers need to continuously focus on [Read Story]

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