“互联网+”促进我国消费升级的效应与机制

“互联网+”时代的消费升级具有追求个性化、品质化、体验化、情感化的本质特征。“互联网+”不仅可以影响生产的数量和层次,即催生供给侧革命,而且可以影响消费的数量和层次,即催生需求侧革命。“互联网+”通过对传统产业消费主体、消费客体与消费载体的整合改造,使传统产业通过互联网实现产业间互联互通,重塑消费环境、重建消费逻辑与重整消费层次。“互联网+”通过打造多点支撑的消费增长格局,培育和发展消费新热点和新兴消费,从而实现从需求侧推动消费升级。“互联网+”通过驱动制造业转型升级,推进生产组织模式变革,推动个性化定制生产方式,从而实现从供给端发力促进消费升级。     

Marketplace orchestration of taste: insights from the Bridgewater Hall

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to explore how a concert hall can orchestrate and shape individuals’ classical music tastes. The paper is based on an 8-month ethnography at the Bridgewater Hall concert venue in Manchester. Our emergent findings illustrate how classical music tastes are influenced via the spatial meanings of the concert hall. These meanings include various physical, historical and sociocultural aspects that are revealed in the context of the Bridgewater Hall. Our study contributes to various streams of consumer culture theory research and opens up avenues for future research on the interrelationships of space and place with taste.     

Emotions,deliberations, and end‐of‐life products

Death is inevitable; yet, not all consumers prepare for death by purchasing end‐of‐life (EOL) products. Using the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the dual‐process model framework, this study aims to examine the role of emotions and cognitions in influencing consumers' decisions to engage in planning for death. A mixed methodology design was used. Study 1, a qualitative study, uncovered positive and negative emotions and deliberative reasoning that comprise consumers' EOL purchase decision process. Study 2, a quantitative study, confirmed that emotions and deliberations independently and jointly influenced consumers' EOL attitude and behavior and that emotions affected deliberations for both prepaid funerals and wills. Subjective norms outperformed attitude in predicting both products' purchase behavior. These finding supported the dual‐process model of behavior and the TRA in the EOL research context and contributed to the EOL literature by investigating the effects of emotions and deliberations concurrently; thus validating the important role of emotions in influencing EOL planning and purchase. In light of our findings, marketers could, after due cognizance of the morbidity and sensitivity of the topic, develop actionable promotional and segmentation strategies for EOL products and other emotion‐laden, unsought products and service.     

Can Consumers Buy Responsibly? Analysis and Solutions for Market Failures

This paper analyses one of the business case arguments for social responsibility: that corporate social responsibility plans are rewarded by consumers. This paper explores the ability of consumers to buy responsibly, identifies the main obstacles for responsible consumption, and suggests conditions for it to work. The review of previous studies leads us to conclude that consuming responsibly is seen as a time consuming activity, economically disadvantageous, and stressful. The main thesis of this paper is that unless market failures are corrected, consumers will not be able to buy responsibly, and therefore, market incentives for CSR are seriously threatened.

Labelling fashion markets

The present article discusses how an ethical and environmental labelling system can be implemented in fashion garment markets. Consumers act in markets that provide them with more information than their limited cognitive capacity allows them to handle. Ethical and environmental labelling in markets characterized by change, such as the fashion garment market, makes decision‐making even more complicated. The ethical and environmental labelling system proposed here is designed to alleviate firms' administrative burden and give consumers more choice. It proposes that information on ethical and environmentally friendly production should be combined to enable consumers to decide whether they want to contribute an extra sum for the item they purchase in the store, which would then be transferred to the workers or an environmental organization. The beneficiaries – garment workers in developing countries and environmental organizations – would decide what to do with the money. This is a simpler and more direct solution than those suggested by scholars and activists trying to solve the problems of ‘sweatshops’ and the environmental consequences of the production of fashion garments. It also reduces administration compared with existing systems. At the same time, it can be implemented alongside systems based on strict regulation of production.     

Obesity and compensatory consumption: Evidence from jewelry shopping

This article examines the link between obesity and compensatory consumption in the context of jewelry shopping. Study 1 finds that participants with higher body mass indices are willing to pay more for a jewelry item. Study 2 generalizes this finding by documenting that jewelry store sales are higher in places with greater obesity rates. Using Google Trends data, Study 3 shows that the search interest for jewelry stores increases with the obesity rate and that this relationship is mediated by people's dissatisfaction with their current weight as revealed by their search activity. Finally, supporting the self-discrepancy account, Study 4 shows that the use of self-related and discrepancy words together in jewelry-related tweets is more pronounced in places with greater obesity rates. These findings collectively help enhance the field's understanding of the consumption behavior of people who are part of a large stigmatized group.     

国内外苯胺的生产与消费分析

综述了近年来国内外苯胺的生产、消费状况及对2006年中国和世界主要国家在不同消费领域对苯胺的需求预测.针对目前中国苯胺的生产状况和面临的一些不利因素,提出了中国苯胺的生产和发展建议.     

中国奢侈品消费的动因分析

随着当前我国奢侈品消费人数的不断攀升及奢侈品消费金额的不断提高,中国的奢侈品消费从整体上看未富先奢的局面已经出现。其大致可分为两类：一类是传统奢侈品的消费,消费人群主要集中在超富裕阶层;另一类是新奢侈品的消费,消费人群是中产阶级和白领。从影响我国消费者奢侈品消费的主要动机来看,人际性消费是影响我国奢侈品消费的主要动机,其中符号性消费是影响我国当前奢侈品消费的首要因素。符号性消费、从众性消费与人情消费都属于非理性的消费行为,促使我国奢侈品消费呈现出一种非理性状态。因此．应大力倡导理性消费．同时也要抓住契机。加大宣传营销力度与创新．树立自己的民族奢侈品牌,更好地发施我国经济     

The twilight world of British business politics: The Spring Sunningdale conferences since the 1960s

This article explores a previously unknown form of interaction, known as Spring Sunningdale, between the British business elite and its civil servant equivalent in Whitehall. These began in 1963 and were still continuing only a few years ago. The continuity and stability of these meetings stands in contrast to wider changes in the nature of business–government relations in Britain during this period, particularly since the election of the Thatcher government in 1979. The article analyses why there was such continuity and what the senior civil servants and the captains of industry who attended these annual meetings gained from them.     

我国消费者生态购买行为影响机制

消费者的生态购买行为是构建生态消费模式的基础和重要组成部分。而现阶段我国消费者生态购买意愿相对不足,已有文献也缺乏基于中国情境的生态购买行为实证研究。基于此,本文首次在中国情境下对消费者生态购买行为的影响机制进行探讨。研究结果表明,我国消费者生态购买行为主要受到心理和社会文化因素的影响。我国消费者的生态购买意愿取决于生态态度以及生态知识、生态价值观和生态情感等因素的交互作用。消费者的生态知识及生态情感能够直接驱动生态购买意愿与行为。因此,为提升我国生态消费水平、构建生态消费模式,应加强生态教育,提高消费者生态知识水平;倡导文明生活方式,构建生态消费价值观;促进生态体验,培育消费者的生态情感;建立全方位制度环境,强化消费者生态态度的形成。