...Sameeullah Khan; Asif Iqbal Fazili; Irfan Bashir Purpose This study aims to examine whether counterfeit luxury buyers’ tendency to impress others overrides their anticipation of embarrassment or whether the anticipation of embarrassment delimits their self-presentational goals. Design...

...Luis F. Martinez; Dorothea S. Jaeger Purpose Counterfeiting is an increasingly global phenomenon that threatens the economy as a whole and also presents a risk for the consumers. The purpose of this study is to explore moral emotions along with moral awareness and moral judgment with respect...

...Min Teah; Ian Phau; Yu-an Huang Purpose – This paper aims to examine the influence of social and personality factors on attitudes towards counterfeiting of luxury brands and purchase intention between China Chinese and Taiwan Chinese consumers. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection...

... behavior of an additional solution (i.e. SBMS). In the next section, we build such a model. Italy Counterfeiting Online music piracy Structural equations modeling Subscription-based music services Theory of reasoned action Digital piracy, the illegal copying/downloading of copyrighted...

...Peggy E. Chaudhry; Stephen A. Stumpf Purpose The purpose of this paper is to guide marketing managers in their efforts to decrease consumer demand for counterfeits of their products by examining the consumer beliefs and attitudes that have been found to support consumer complicity across multiple...

...Ian Phau; Min Teah Purpose This paper sets out to examine how social and personality factors influence Chinese consumers' attitudes towards counterfeits of luxury brands and how these two sets of variables influence purchase intention. It provides a profile of buyers and non‐buyers of counterfeits...

...Celso Augusto de Matos; Cristiana Trindade Ituassu; Carlos Alberto Vargas Rossi Purpose The purpose of this research is to propose and test a model that integrates the main predictors of consumers' attitude and behavioral intentions toward counterfeits; to help companies understand the main...

... the west and the east is a major reason. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Computer software Counterfeiting China Consumer behaviour Factor analysis An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. A total of 340...

...Swee Hoon Ang; Peng Sim Cheng; Elison A.C. Lim; Siok Kuan Tambyah Examines consumers’ motivation for buying counterfeits or pirated goods. The findings indicated that, compared to those who did not buy pirated music CDs, those who bought the counterfeits viewed such purchases as less risky...

... and price with product type were also significant predictors for some clusters. Consumer behaviour Consumer marketing Counterfeiting Crime Ethics Legal matters Traffic in illegal goods is big business in the USA. Counterfeiting, shoplifting, illegal drug trade and other illicit consuming...

...Peter H. Bloch; Ronald F. Bush; Leland Campbell Examines the consumer′s role in the proliferation of product counterfeiting. Describes a demand‐side orientation to the counterfeiting problem and discusses results from a field experiment examining consumers′ willingness to select a counterfeit...