Gluttony as predictor of compulsive buying behaviour

Luigi Piper is contract professor of Business Economics at the University of Bari. He was Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). He received his PhD in Economics and Mathematics Statistics at the same university. He is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals and has participated in various conferences on the topics of marketing and consumer behaviour.

Andrea Sestino is PhD candidate in management and marketing, at University of Bari (Italy), and assistant researcher at University of Salento, Lecce (Italy); he holds a master's degree in business management at Sapienza University, Rome (Italy). Additionally, he is also R&D specialist for an Italian consulting company in the field of applied research to digital business, involved in private and national research projects. His research interests fall in the areas of business innovation and digital transformation, studying essential components, challenges and opportunities of digital and technology as a phenomenon and related impact to companies and consumers in designing marketing strategies.

Gianluigi Guido (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is full professor of Marketing at the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). His research is about consumer behaviour and marketing strategies. He has published 20 books and more than 200 papers in scholarly journals.