Through the lenses of culture: Chinese consumers' intentions to purchase imported products

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1237-1250

  Liu, Shuang ^a   Smith, Joanne R ^b   Liesch, Peter W ^c   Gallois, Cindy ^a   Ren, Yi ^d   Daly, Stephanie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e Middle Kingdom Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese consumers; ingroup influence; product perception; purchase intention; self identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052056350     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110383315     Document Type: Article

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