The picture that emerges is that people with high AGCC are younger and better educated, looking for new experiences in their lives, and less beholden to the past, tradition, conformity, and economic xenophobia. In the cultural globalization and acculturation literatures, the glocalization response is less precisely defined than the globalization and localization responses are. Please read and accept the terms and conditions and check the box to generate a sharing link. View or download all the content the society has access to. The six consumption domains have less variation in diagnosticity for ALCC, but lifestyle scores highest and entertainment lowest. To the extent that a country has a globally favorable image in the category (Japanese electronics, German cars, French perfume), FCCP is closely aligned with GCCP because these country stereotypes (Japanese inventiveness, German craftsmanship, French elegance) have become part of a GCC brand-building repertoire (Steenkamp 2017). It implies that in a modern world, core identities are defined and oriented in relation to consumption. However, in the last decades, consumer culture has been increasingly shaped by globalization processes. National-Cultural Correlates of AGCC and ALCC. The forced-choice response format avoids issues of response styles. Thus, I focus here on GCCP and LCCP. Alternatively, the consumer may integrate elements of GCC into the LCC (or vice versa; Belk 2000). Consumer culture theory is descriptively rich, but insights are mostly based on qualitative, ethnographic data (Arnould and Thompson 2018). The correlations with the individual-level variables were also less similar. Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. Abstract. Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) hypothesized that indirect, image-oriented, soft-sell appeals are more suitable for advertisements using GCCP than direct, strong, hard-sell message arguments are, because soft-sell appeals would be more similarly interpreted across countries. A consumer culture can be viewed both positively and negatively. The neo-Marxists in dependency and world-system theories examine capitalist accumulation on a global scale on lines of core and peripheral countries. Odyssey and the Consumer Culture Theory Conference. Is it because they base their product purchase decisions on functional performance and objective attributes? This limited attention would be understandable if glalienation applied to a tiny minority of consumers. Brand Strategy Using Global or Local Consumer Culture. While few would dispute that global elites and global youth have different outlooks, should their cultures be regarded as subcultures under an all-encompassing GCC umbrella, or should GCC be broken up into these subcultures? Strong evidence shows that many consumers take local and global cultural considerations into account in their evaluation of brands and brand purchases. Description. As shown, the IRT model of Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) can be used to quantify key aspects of consumer culture theory. Another interesting finding is for the glalienation response. Moreover, future research should provide more guidance to managers on how to combine GCCP and LCCP in their branding strategies. Table 3 shows that consumer ethnocentrism exhibits the largest effect on AGCC. Used to describe the “sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption” (Arnould & Thompson, 2005, p. 868), consumer culture theory acknowledges the core theoretical assumptions within this plethora of research. The last few decades have seen the emergence of global consumer culture (GCC) as an important force in the marketplace. Eight weeks later, the AGCC/ALCC measurement instrument was administered to the same respondents. The Rise of Online Grocery Shopping in China: Which Brands Will Benefi... Alden, Dana L., Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M., Batra, Rajeev (, Arnould Eric, J., Thompson, Craig J., eds. The remainder of the article follows the flow outlined in Figure 1. Respondents evaluated up to four randomly chosen brands on a 16-item brand equity measurement instrument, which covers four components of brand equity: esteem, differentiation, relevance, and energy (Lehmann, Keller, and Farley 2008). The article concludes with areas for future research. Future research should examine this situation in depth. Some antiglobal activists call for deconsumption; some dispute specific elements of global value chains such as brands, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and sweatshop labor; some promote ethical consumption; and some promote local brands that are ideologically positioned as explicit competitors to their … Table 3. Consumer culture are the shared experiences, symbols and norms that evolve in markets for consumer products. 1) Culture as a whole – Think of this as the statement “I love India” or “I love USA”. However, it is also psychometrically complex, and IRT models are not yet widely diffused in international marketing. 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Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) examined the use of consumer culture positioning (CCP) strategies in television advertising in seven countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Global consumer culture theory, which has been defined as “a family of theoretical perspectives that address the dynamic relation-ships between consumer actions, the marketplace, and cultural meanings” (Arnould and Thompson 2002, p.868), has, indeed, taken hold in more advertising research. Brexit, “America First” policy, America’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, trade disputes, the refugee crisis in Europe, threats to the Schengen Area (the ID-free travel zone within Europe), the (re)emergence of increasingly assertive China and Russia, China’s state-sponsored master plan (“Made in China”) to gain global dominance in key industries, and heightened xenophobia have undermined the seemingly inexorable march toward greater global integration. consumerism to global consumption homo genization. Information on age and education alone explains 12.7% of global variance in AGCC. This finding is important because attitude toward the ad acts as a mediator of advertising effectiveness. A simpler model is one that omits the easiness parameter and restricts all discrimination parameters to be either −1 or +1. To what extent is the attractiveness of GCCP affected by economic and political events? After all, materialism and modernization occupy a central position in both consumer culture theory and globalization theory (Arnould and Thompson 2018; Ritzer 2007). Research has further documented that local brands can counter the threat posed by global brands by incorporating LCC elements into their brand promise (Özsomer 2012; Schuiling and Kapferer 2004; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003; Strizhakova and Coulter 2015). A person’s attitude toward GCC has a positive effect on the person’s attitude toward, and purchase of, global brands (Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra 2006; Riefler 2012; Strizhakova, Coulter, and Price 2011). If anything, this situation should make the distinction between GCC and LCC even more important to consumers, firms, and international marketing scholars. Some have argued that globalization and (alleged) homogenization favor those marketers who are able to position their brands as symbols of global consumer culture (GCC; Özsomer, and Altaras 2008; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003; Xie, Batra, and Peng 2015). Yet little hard, quantitative evidence shows that consumer culture affects brand equity. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) The first response option indicates preference for global consumption alternatives (globalization), followed by preference for combining global and local alternatives (glocalization), preference for local alternatives (localization), and lack of interest in the consumption domain regardless of whether the alternatives are local or global (glalienation). For more information view the SAGE Journals Article Sharing page. . These psychographic profiles are consistent with results reported in Table 3. The correlation between the unweighted scores and the IRT scores was only .836. The author gratefully acknowledges the JIM review team for encouragement and constructive comments. As this article has shown, much has been achieved in the last 20 years. In the first wave, data were collected on brand equity among a sample of British consumers for 97 international brands in various consumer packaged goods categories. Is it is more difficult to embrace GCC (or LCC) in some consumption domains than in others? Under this theory, consumer culture - a society revolving around the consumption of goods and services - is empowering and improves the overall well-being of the members of society. In sum, Inglehart’s framework is most useful for cultural attitudes at the country level, from both a conceptual and a statistical perspective. An initial focus on the demand side would make sense. A third proposed response, hybridization, or glocalization, concerns a desire to embrace elements of global culture and to integrate them into the local culture. Please check you selected the correct society from the list and entered the user name and password you use to log in to your society website. The emerging global consumer culture is affecting international marketing theories and in return, international promotional mix decisions. They regressed country means on AGCC and ALCC on the two dimensions specified in Inglehart’s national-cultural framework (Inglehart and Baker 2000; Inglehart and Wezel 2005): secular-rational versus traditional values, and self-expression versus survival values. This article provides an overview of where the field of international marketing stands on GCC and LCC, and it presents new empirical insights. At the same time, globalization processes offer opportunities for local brands to differentiate themselves on unique local consumer culture (LCC) meanings (Schuiling and Kapferer 2004; Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden 2003). Approximately 31 responses were obtained per brand for a final sample of 611 respondents. However, in the Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) sample, glalienation was the dominant response for one of seven respondents. However, cultural alienation is identified in the cultural identification and adaptation literature (e.g., Oetting and Beauvais 1991). Overall, LCCP was used in 59.0% of the advertisements, versus 22.4% for GCCP (and 3.8% for FCCP). Some society journals require you to create a personal profile, then activate your society account, You are adding the following journals to your email alerts, Did you struggle to get access to this article? Rather than being taken as a unified theory, CCT is better seen as theoretics and/or a community of consumer culture theorists (Arnould & Thompson, 2007; Penaloza et al., 2009) sharing an interest in the exploration of: 1) the socio-historical patterning of consumption, 2) the interplay between consumption and consumer identity formation, 3) marketplace cultures and consumption collectives, and 4) mass-mediated ideologies and consumers’ interpretive strategies, to elicit the four fundamental trajectories of CCT (Arnould & Thompson, 2005). Most of these findings are based on self-stated intentions and behavior. These variables are the Big Five personality traits and seven consumer traits: exploratory information seeking, susceptibility to normative influences, generalized brand loyalty, deal proneness, health consciousness, quality consciousness, and attitude toward advertising.1. Global consumer culture is “at one and the same time, ideology and social process, as something continuously made and remade through The regression coefficients for each of these 30 brands can be found in the Web Appendix. This article attempts to understand the impact of global consumer culture and ethnocentric consumerism on global citizenship by identifying the mediating effect of cultural intelligence.,The proposed structural equation model explains the relationship between global consumer culture, ethnocentric consumerism, and global citizenship. The change in the global regulation of economy is evident and apparent. For example, the low parameter for glalienation and the high parameter for glocalization with respect to foods indicates that the hurdle to show disinterest in food culture is high, whereas there is great interest in combining local and global foods in one’s consumption repertoire. Experts from Kantar Worldpanel independently classified the positioning of each brand used in the United Kingdom as primarily GCCP/FCCP, primarily LCCP, or no dominant CCP. Since Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (1999) introduced the concept of GCC in the marketing literature, it has attracted considerable research attention. fourth perspective on global consumer culture is an extension of global . A brief look inside the relationship between marketing and culture as it relates to cross cultural marketing and global consumer culture. Consumer Culture Theory: Ideology, Mythology and Meaning in Technology Consumption. Second, I examine 12 variables not considered by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010). As it turns out, Michael Bay was likely not the best choice. In sum, the brand equity analysis shows that the interplay between the CCP used by the brand and consumers’ attitudes toward consumer culture has an appreciable (medium to large) effect on brand equity for roughly one-third of the international brands in consumer packaged goods. (, Flannery, W. Peter, Reise, Steven P., Jiajuan, Yu (, Gineikiene, Justina, Schlegelmilch, Bodo B., Ruzeviciute, Ruta (, Gurhan-Canli, Zeynep, Sarıal-Abi, Gulen, Hayran, Ceren (, Holt, Douglas B., Quelch, John A., Taylor, Earl L. (, Hung, Kineta H., Li, Stella Yiyan, Belk, Russell W. (, Kipnis, Eva, Broderick, Amanda J., Demangeot, Catherine (, Kumar, Nirmalya, Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M. (, LaFramboise, Teresa, Coleman, Hardin L.K., Gerton, Jennifer (, Lehmann, Donald R., Keller, Kevin L., Farley, John U. Thus, the incremental contribution of another such study may be limited. Consumer ethnocentrism also exhibits the largest effect size for ALCC; in fact, it has by far the largest effect size of all ALCC correlates. Taken across AGCC and ALCC, lifestyle and clothing are the most diagnostic consumption domains for capturing people’s AGCC and ALCC. Unit weighting can be achieved by applying the following coding scheme to the item responses: Add the scores on AGCC and on ALCC across the items, and divide them by the number of items. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory was created in 1980 by Dutch management researcher, Geert Hofstede. You can be signed in via any or all of the methods shown below at the same time. This background information sets the context for an in-depth discussion of how international marketers have operationalized consumer attitudes toward GCC and LCC, and their individual-level and national-cultural correlates. In a similar vein, Pieterse (2004, p. 59) argues for “hybridization,” and Friedman (1995, p. 82), for “creolization.” Individuals can be global in one consumer domain but local in another (Robertson 1992). It is associated with low cultural identification, loss of identity, and problems of well-being (Oetting and Beauvais 1991). I enjoy traditional entertainment that is popular in my own country more than entertainment that I think is popular in many countries around the world. Although some of this research does not directly test effects of LCC and GCC, the underlying theorizing relies heavily on LCC/GCC theory. What are the implications of the idea of modernity for consumer research? See the Appendix for details. [1] [2] [3] The term alludes to the overall impact and intellectual guidance exerted by the media (primarily TV, but also the press, radio and cinema), not only on public opinion but also on tastes and values . However, the finding that the easiness parameter for glocalization is larger than the corresponding parameter for localization in all consumption domains reveals a preference among many consumers to include GCC elements in their behavior. I don’t enjoy most entertainment, whether it’s traditionally popular in my own country or popular in many countries around the world. Hofstede’s (2001) framework is the most widely used operationalization of culture in international marketing. However, as companies expect ever more accountability from their brand managers, showing the impact of cultural marketing strategies on building strong brands and quantifiably higher brand equity is a priority (Steenkamp 2017). Traditionally social science has tended to regard consumption as a trivial by-product of production. Even though Steve Jobs and Apple, did not use consumer research in the initial development of most products, consumer behavior plays a huge role in their marketing and ultimately the success of the company. Such high correlations, especially in small samples, create severe multicollinearity problems and thus make interpretation of individual regression coefficients suspect. But at least two findings need further attention. Yet, in recent years, powerful political and economic forces suggest that globalization might be stalling, leading to renewed interest in local consumer culture (LCC). 2000). Finally, with glalienation, both a rise in AGCC and a rise in ALCC would negatively affect the odds of selecting the response option. This sets the context for an in-depth treatment of consumer attitudes toward GCC (AGCC) and LCC (ALCC). A third acculturation model calls for a fusion and integration of the two cultures, creating a mixture and combination that not only contains “the best” of the original cultures but also new and unique elements that are atypical of both of them (Coleman 1995). Consumer culture theory (CCT) is the study of consumption choices and behaviors from a social and cultural point of view, as opposed to an economic or psychological one. I revisit this finding in the final section of the article. New Media Universalism Sense of History Branding and Advertising: From Global to Multi-Local Consumer Behavior A Model of Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior Organization of the Book Conclusion Notes 2. By and large, the literature presents a coherent profile of AGCC and ALCC in terms of personality traits, personal values, consumer traits, and sociodemographics at the individual level, and in terms of national culture at the country level. It is customary to talk about GCC in singular. For each of the six consumption domains, the respondent was instructed to select the one response option that most closely matched their preference. Consumer culture theory (CCT) refers to a heteroglossic assemblage of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations that seeks to illuminate the dynamic, interactive relationships among consumer actions, marketplace systems, cultural meanings, and broader sociostructural forces, such as socialization in class and gender practices and ideologies. Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) further found that ALCC is positively associated with the importance given to tradition, conformity, and security values and negatively associated with the importance given to stimulation and self-direction values. Unilever bets heavily on the future of “purpose branding” (Faber 2018). 4 Iceberg Concept of Culture. In addition, Okazaki, Mueller, and Taylor reported that hard-sell appeals received higher ratings on attitudes toward the ad and purchase intention. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. The following illustration uses IRT parameter estimates obtained by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) but neither reported nor discussed in that article. The consumer’s relation with the brand is aspirational (Hung, Li, and Belk 2007), especially in emerging markets, where global brands signify modernity, the future, and dreams of abundance (Batra et al. The world is an increasingly interconnected place, and these interconnections influence individuals’ worldviews. For each brand, consumers’ brand equity score was regressed on their AGCC and ALCC scores. 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The authors find Acculturation theory studies globalization and localization processes at the micro level of individuals (Schwartz and Unger 2017). The bidimensional model treats (old) cultural maintenance and (new) cultural adaptation as two conceptually separate dimensions, allowing identification with the new culture to coexist alongside identification with the old culture. Furthermore, the higher a country scores on self-expression values, the lower its average AGCC and ALCC. Thirdly, the consumer may fuse LCC and GCC, creating new and unique elements that are atypical of both (Coleman 1995; Sandikci and Ger 2002). This finding provides strong empirical support for the idea that many consumers are reluctant to disassociate themselves from LCC. However, when degrees of freedom are taken into account, Inglehart’s framework performs best. This change in perspective is what Iwabuchi (2000, p. 269) calls “the shift from a Western gaze to a global gaze.” The concept of GCC itself could be further unpacked. Associate EditorKelly Hewett served as associate editor for this article. As shown, perceived brand globalness has a greater effect on purchase likelihood than perceived local iconness does. The IRT model proposed by Steenkamp and De Jong (2010) yields precise estimation and rich insights into response patterns for individual consumption domains. They are lower on harmony, autonomy (affective, intellectual), and secular-rational and self-expressiveness values (i.e., embracing survival and traditional values). Are they economically so marginalized that consumer culture has little meaning to them? Shannahan, L. (2004). Previously, authors have noted that environmentalism has strong overtones of universalism (Tomlinson 1999, p. 77), but why would environmentalism be inimical to LCC? Figure 3. Countries that are low on this dimension (“traditional” societies) emphasize the importance of deference to authority, along with absolute standards and traditional family values. The past 20 yr. of consumer research have produced a flurry of research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. More specifically, I start by tracing the development of GCC and LCC, elaborating on their roots in consumer culture, cultural globalization, and acculturation theories. Select one or several countries/regions in the menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. Although advertising is a main conduit through which GCC is communicated (Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra 1999), people with high AGCC may consider advertising bland and uninspiring, given their need for change and new stimuli. Glalienation has received the least attention in the literature. International marketing has devoted more effort to studying GCC and LCC in consumer behavior than in firm strategy (Table 1). Rather than viewing culture as a fairly homogenous system of Lean Library can solve it. Currently, GCC is dominated by Western cultural symbols and values. Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. This textbook offers the definitive review of CCT by the leading scholars in the field. Compared with, say, five years ago, nationality and borders seem to have become more important. A typology of consumer responses to the joint forces of global and local consumer culture. The overall brand equity score was obtained by averaging scores across the four components. Their prospects may be enhanced by growing indications that global integration is stalling (Hu and Spence 2017). Specific easiness parameters are also informative. Probability of giving a particular response to the forces of global and local culture for two consumption domains. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) Answering these questions requires obtaining repeated measurements of AGCC and ALCC for the same people over a prolonged period of time. Hofstede distinguishes five dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and long-term orientation. Cultures around the world are getting more and more interconnected and the business world is becoming increasingly global. Figure 2. (2016) studied which consumers are most likely to respond favorably to advertisements using GCCP or LCCP. The focus then shifts from the demand side to the supply side. For the localization response, the opposite is true. Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) looks at consumers, brands, and markets from a social and cultural vantage point. For the glocalization response, both a rise in AGCC and a rise in ALCC would give rise to an increase in the likelihood of the response option. Secular-rational societies’ values have the opposite preferences on all these topics. Given that GCC is still a recent phenomenon, this finding provides compelling empirical evidence concerning its appeal. This profile is consistent with the idea that GCC offers the promise of modernity, progress, and a new, different, and more exciting future. GCCP was developed based global consumer culture theory (GCCT), which asserted that a global culture of consumption is emerging as a result of the "increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures as well as through the development of cultures without a clear anchorage in any one territory (Okazaki, Mueller, and Taylor, 2010). By evaluating the absolute magnitude of the discrimination parameters, one can assess which consumption domains are more strongly linked to AGCC and/or ALCC. In that model, the probability that respondent i in country j, with latent values AGCCij and ALCCij, will respond to consumption domain k (k = 1,…, 6 in the Steenkamp and De Jong measurement instrument) in nominal response category c (c = 1,…, 4) is given by the following equation: Zijkc can be regarded as the unobserved preference that respondent i from country j has for response category c in the context of consumption domain k. The parameter ξkc indicates a category response “easiness” parameter, with more positive (negative) values being associated with a greater easiness (greater difficulty) of the response category being chosen. Yet for AGCC, we find a strong effect of age, as well as substantial effects of education and (to a lesser degree) social class. Acculturaton to the global consumer culture: Scale development and research paradigm To make CCT more accessible to scholars less familiar with the “vernacular” of cultural consumer research and to facilitate a more holistic understanding of this research tradition, we first briefly outline where CCT comes from, historically and institutionally. They found that a person’s global and local identity are correlated. Thus, LCC remains a vital cultural force in today’s world. If a firm’s GCCP strategy is effective in establishing perceptions of globalness as well as associations with quality, prestige, and/or global identity, GCCP may overall be a more beneficial positioning strategy than LCCP. Only 14.8% of the advertisements did not use a dominant CCP, attesting to CCP’s widespread use by firms. Many consumers prefer local consumption imagery because they more easily identify with local lifestyles, values, attitudes, and behaviors (Crane 2002). Cultural Influences On Consumer Behavior - Cultural Influences On Consumer Behavior Culture: Is the accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms, and traditions among the members of an organization or society. Much of this research is focused on consumer behavior (demand side). To assess the validity of this simple solution, I turned to the large sample (N = 13,112) of Steenkamp and De Jong (2010). This difference implies that the probability of disassociation from brands is higher and is less influenced by attitudes toward GCC and LCC. There are numerous explanations for the growth of a diverse consumer culture and thus the intense levels of unnecessary symbolic consumption engaged in by most people today – the overview taken below is primarily from Joel Stillerman (2015) who seems to identify five major changes which underpin recent changes in consumption since WW2. Proto-CCT opposed the reduction of consumption to demographic or psychographic traits of consumers (e.g., gender, age, personality, lifestyle), or the individual’s utilitarian information processing and decision-making. Table 4. With the exception of that of Alden, Steenkamp, and Batra (2006), these instruments rely on Likert-type response scales. The results of this new analysis are shown in Table 3. Model parameters can be estimated for groups of countries, such as developed versus emerging markets, to make international comparisons of specific consumption domains. Proponents say that people are happier and more productive when their wants and needs are met, and that buying and owning things is a means to that end. The literature is less clear on the exact nature of such hybrid combinations. The spread of global consumer culture provokes backlash and resistance. Consumer culture is a form of material culture facilitated by the market, which thus created a particular relationship between the consumer and the goods or services he or she uses or consumes. From Sid Levy’s famous 1955 HBR article, “Symbols for Sale,” to today’s thriving scholarship and practice across the globe, this research tradition offers powerful approaches to think about consumers as social beings creating meanings in and through the marketplace. Schwartz’s (1994) framework contains seven dimensions: harmony (fitting in with the environment), embeddedness (people as embedded in the collective), hierarchy (legitimation of unequal distribution of power), mastery (exploitation of the natural or social environment), affective autonomy (pursuit of positive experiences), intellectual autonomy (independent pursuit of own ideas), and egalitarianism (recognition of people as moral equals). With 28 countries, Cohen’s cutoff of .30 has a p-value of .12. A consumer culture can be viewed both positively and negatively. It also reduces the biasing effects of socially desirable responding as respondents “have to consider the social desirability of all four elements [response categories], which is more difficult than judging the social desirability of a single element” (Triandis, Chen, and Chan 1998, p. 277). Yet important unresolved issues remain. 'A Cultural Theory [of International Relations] is the capstone of Lebow’s unceasing commitment to restoring a dynamic and historical dimension of international relations and to reinstating values and motives to their proper place at the center of enquiry. Firms transfer cultural meanings from the culturally constituted world via advertising and other marketing activities into their brands. He has received the Paul D. Converse Award, two Fulbright Fellowships and the Sheth Foundation/Journal of Consumer Research Award for long-term contribution to consumer research and has over 600 publications. Do GCC and LCC really matter to consumers? The global shift to industrialization and the easing of economic restrictions in command economies, coupled with the move toward individual growth and privatization, constitute a signal that what is modern is desirable and what is desirable must be attained. Acculturaton to the global consumer culture: Scale development and research paradigm I calculated respondents’ unweighted scores using their survey responses, correlated the unweighted scores with the IRT scores, and then calculated the correlations between the individual-level correlates and unweighted AGCC and ALCC scores. Given the importance of AGCC in international marketing, this issue requires urgent attention. Finally, ALCC is positively correlated with health consciousness. The brand’s CCP positioning strategy is an important channel through which the firm can influence these perceptions (Akaka and Alden 2010). The consistency across frameworks suggests that this finding is not a coincidence. This result suggests that people’s AGCC and ALCC can be used as indicators for how they will respond to advertisements using these types of positioning. Nijssen and Douglas (2011), Westjohn, Singh, and Magnusson (2012), and Westjohn et al. One striking result is that glocalization, and to a lesser degree localization, have larger easiness parameters than glalienation and, even more so, globalization. It shows that even under extreme circumstances (extremely high AGCC and extremely low ALCC), the probability of selecting the globalization response is much higher for brands than for lifestyle. Global consumer culture: a theoretical discussion between the centrality of consumption in the contemporary society and its possible localizations as a result of cultural differences. In many respects, people with high AGCC can be regarded as the vanguard of society. This process, understood as cultural imperialism, [page needed] is associated with the destruction of cultural identities, dominated by a homogenized and westernized, consumer culture. The concept of perceived brand globalness was introduced by Steenkamp, Batra, and Alden (2003). Any analysis of the role that GCC and LCC play in the behavior of consumers has to take into account consumers’ attitudes toward these two constructs. Media forms, symbols, lifestyles, and acculturation literatures, the culture Compass™ or join our open Introduction. Theory: Ideology, Mythology and Meaning in technology consumption is entangled theory is grounded in materialism modernization! 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