Effects of Cultural Variations on Customer Acquisition Costs

1. INTRODUCTION .................................... 1

Introduction to the Study ..................... 1

Statement of the Problem ...................... 4

Rational of the Study ......................... 6

Purpose of the Study .......................... 7

Importance of the Study ....................... 7

Scope of the Study ............................ 7

Definitions of Terms .......................... 8

Overview of the of the Study .................. 10

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE .................... 11

Introduction to the Literature Review ......... 11

Hofstede National Cultural Model .............. 11

Brand Management .............................. 38

Changing Nature of Consumer Marketing ......... 52

Summary ....................................... 57

3. METHOD .......................................... 58

Introduction to the Methodology ............... 58

Approach ...................................... 58

Hypotheses .................................... 58

Variables and Operational Definitions ......... 59

Population and Sample ......................... 59

Instrumentation ............................... 60

Data Collection Procedures .................... 60

Data Analysis ................................. 60

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or "the ideal manager" (Hofstede, 1994, p. 13). Rituals are collective activities that are "technically superfluous but, within a particular culture, socially essential. In organizations they include not only celebrations but also many formal activities defended on apparently rational grounds: meetings, the writing of memos, and planning systems, plus the informal ways in which formal activities are performed: who can afford to be late for what meeting, who speaks to whom, and so on" (Hofstede, 1994, p. 13). Values represent the deepest level of a culture. Values are broad feelings, "often unconscious and not open to discussion, about what is good and what is bad, clean or dirty, beautiful or ugly, rational or irrational, normal or abnormal, natural or paradoxical, decent or indecent" (Hofstede, 1994, p. 13). Such feelings are present in the majority of the members of a culture, or "at least in those persons who occupy pivotal positions" (Hofstede, 1994, p. 14). Nationality gender are involuntary attributes. "We are born within a family within a nation, and are subject to the mental programming of its culture from birth. Here we acquire most of our basic values. Occupational choice is partly voluntary (dependent on the
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