One More Time: Does Country Image Influence Consumers' Willingness to Pay?

Autor(en)
Adamantios Diamantopoulos, Michaela Matarazzo, Anastasiya Petrychenko
Abstrakt

Drawing on equity theory and applying van Westendorp’s price sensitivity meter (PSM), we investigate the impact of country image assessments on consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) while controlling for several consumer traits (consumer ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism, xenocentrism, price sensitivity and product involvement). We find that country image positively impacts WTP but this relationship is non-linear, indicating diminishing returns. We also find that consumer xenocentrism and price sensitivity partly counteract the positive effects of country image by lowering consumers’ WTP. Implication for research and practice are considered and suggestions for future research made.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Marketing und International Business
Externe Organisation(en)
Università degli Studi „Guglielmo Marconi“
Publikationsdatum
09-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
502052 Betriebswirtschaftslehre, 502020 Marktforschung
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a555690c-003f-44e2-957a-85c4dad7eedb