...Ana Paula Kieling; Ricardo Boeing Purpose Researchers have been exploring the consequences of the hedonic adaptation process at length. This phenomenon is characterized by the reduction of pleasure with consumption experiences over time. Meanwhile, co-creation initiatives seem to be gaining...

...Isabela Carvalho de Morais; Eliane Pereira Zamith Brito Purpose This study aims to investigate consumer enchantment through everyday consumption, focusing on how individuals seek virtue, reason and a sense of purpose in their consumption practices. Design/methodology/approach This seven-year...

... and expressive behaviour (Saridakis and Angelidou, 2018) that elevates objects from being ordinary to extraordinary (Hughes and Hogg, 2006). Collecting is distinguished from other similar consumption practices such as hoarding, accumulating and investing due to the nonidentical uniqueness of objects that form...

...Katy Kerrane; Andrew Lindridge; Sally Dibb Purpose This paper aims to investigate how consumption linked with life transitions can differ in its potential to bring about ongoing liminality. By examining how consumers can draw on overlapping systems of resources, different ways in which consumers...

... literacy and the deployment of both brand design elements and abstract design language by consumers. Design Consumption Visual literacy Brand aesthetics As part of this study, the authors surveyed a range of visual material from Instagram. Specifically, we concentrated on the Instagram...

... and representation over body and materiality, suggesting an “intelligible embodiment” lens offers unique insights into consumers’ embodied experiences in retail environments. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Consumption Merleau-Ponty Consumer...

...Christian Fuentes; Johan Hagberg; Hans Kjellberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further develop the conceptualization of music consumption in the digital age by examining how contemporary music listening is interweaved with other practices, how it shapes those practices and how...

...Cathriona Nash; Lisa O’Malley; Maurice Patterson Purpose This paper aims to understand the relationship between family togetherness and consumption. This is important given the inherent tension permeating discourses of family consumption and a lack of a critical understanding about how...

...Thomas Foscht; Yuting Lin; Andreas B. Eisingerich Purpose This paper aims to explore how and when a business’ transparency leads to greater willingness to engage in sustainable and responsible consumption by consumers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected in two studies. Study 1...

... it, this paper outlines four analytical areas to continue the discussion of how consumption is disciplined and its conceptualisation in marketing and health-related research: “the Individual”, “the Other”, “the Market” and “the Object”. Practical implications – The results signal to policymakers...

... sanctioned objective of achieving and maintaining a place in the peer hierarchy and also the three skills the authors have labelled “social consumption recognition”, “social consumption performance” and “social consumption communication” in regular, predictable ways to produce an ordered and, thus...

... to address. First, this is done by identifying how status transitions (vertical movements) overlap but differ in some important respects from identity transitions (horizontal movements), and second, the consumption strategies used by people when these movements lead to an experience of conflict between one’s...

...-agency benefits.” Values Benefits Agency Consumption Goals Visconti et al. (2010) also explore the interdependence of marketspace participants. They conceptualize “layered agency” as arising from the ways competing stakeholders negotiate and interpret their uses of public...

... and consumption practices underpinned by the globalising impulse (Wilk, 2002). This transformed self is characterised by a liminality (Buchanan-Oliver et al., 2010), and drift (or the somewhere in between) that goes to the core of who we (potentially) become in a globalised world. Pierre Loti...

... hedonic and utilitarian consumption; and stresses the social role of the mall. Reviewing the literature, two main fields of inquiry are prominent. The first, the atmospherics literature, deals with the influence of the retail environment on customers' reactions. The second stream of literature...

...Helene Cherrier; Iain R. Black; Mike Lee Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the special issue theme by analysing intentional non‐consumption through anti‐consumption and consumer resistance lenses. Design/methodology/approach A total of 16 in‐depth interviews with women who intentionally...

...Marco Galvagno Purpose Given the variety of approaches characterising the research area of anti‐consumption and consumer resistance, the purpose of this paper is to conduct a literature review to explore the structure of this interesting research domain and to better understand its origins...

...‐related attributes over and above established self‐image congruence factors known to affect consumption‐related attitudes and intentions. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire‐based study was used to assess consumers' attitudes and intentions to consume a low‐involvement product (Marlboro...

...Lynda Andrews; Geoffrey Kiel; Judy Drennan; Maree V. Boyle; Jay Weerawardena Purpose – This paper compares the experiential consumption values that motivate consumer choice to purchase online for both male and female purchasers and non‐purchasers. Design/methodology/approach – Using the theory...

...Len Tiu Wright; Marylyn Carrigan; Isabelle Szmigin Purpose The paper explores how the complex relationship between consumption and production evolves as women enact their roles as mothers, and reconstruct their self‐identity through their use or avoidance of convenience products. Design...