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Consumer brand choice: Money allocation as a function of brand reinforcing attributes

Oliveira-Castro, J.M.; Foxall, G.R.; Wells, V.K.

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Authors

J.M. Oliveira-Castro

G.R. Foxall

V.K. Wells



Abstract

Previous applications of the matching law to the analysis of consumer brand choice have shown that the amount of money spent purchasing a favorite brand tends to match the quantity bought of the favorite brand divided by the quantity bought of all other brands. Although these results suggest matching between spending and purchased quantity, branded goods differ qualitatively among themselves, rendering previous matching analyses incomplete. Consumer panel data containing information about more than 1,500 British consumers purchasing four grocery product categories (baked beans, biscuits, fruit juice, and yellow fats) during 52 weeks were analyzed. All the brands purchased were classified according to the level of informational and utilitarian reinforcement they were programmed to offer. An adaptation of the generalized matching law was adopted, in which the amount of money spent was a power function of the quantity bought, informational level of the brand bought, utilitarian level of the brand bought, and a measure of price promotion.

Citation

Oliveira-Castro, J., Foxall, G., & Wells, V. (2010). Consumer brand choice: Money allocation as a function of brand reinforcing attributes. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 30(2), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061003756455

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2010
Deposit Date Jan 14, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
Print ISSN 0160-8061
Electronic ISSN 1540-8604
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 2
Pages 161-175
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061003756455
Keywords Brand choice, Matching, Behavioral economics, Consumer behavior analysis, Behavioral Perspective Model.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1513199

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Copyright Statement
This is an electronic version of an article published in Oliveira-Castro, J.M. and Foxall, G.R. and Wells, V.K. (2010) 'Consumer brand choice : money allocation as a function of brand reinforcing attributes.', Journal of organizational behavior management., 30 (2). pp. 161-175.
Journal of organizational behavior management is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01608061003756455




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