Table 2.

Relation between narrative and consumer research

Key conceptReferences
Consumers receive information in the form of narrative and write introspective accounts of their own experiences and feelingsPace (2008), Shankar et al. (2001), Baumgartner (2002), Cooper et al. (2010) and Tussyadiah et al. (2011) 
Consumer communicate their tacit knowledge by metaphor through narrativesHelkkula and Pihlström (2010) and Phillips and McQuarrie (2010) 
Consumers create meaning and express their experiences through narrativesGilliam et al. (2017) 
Consumer make sense of their surroundings and communicate itGuthrie and Anderson (2010), Tussyadiah et al. (2011) and Chronis et al. (2012) 
Narratives persuade through the depiction of characters in a setting and through inferences about cause-and-effect relationships that existHamby et al. (2015) and Phillips and McQuarrie (2010) 
Narratives help consumers to maintain their individual identities in a society of shared signs and objects, settlements and valuesGrafton Small (2006) 
Consumers change their behaviour by immersing themselves in a narrative world and reflecting the received narrative through a change in their behavioursVan Laer et al. (2014, 2019a, 2019b)

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