CB6 (with CourseMate Printed Access Card) - Barry Babin

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Résumé :
Created through a student-tested, faculty-approved review process with over 250 students and faculty, CB6 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners at a value-based price. Award-winning authors Babin and Harris cover essential topics of consumer behavior through a unique concept-driven presentation enhanced by online resources that appeal to today's students and encourage participation. New end-of-part cases highlight today's challenges, and the latest statistics on consumer behavior and contemporary examples reflect the most recent developments in business. New content demonstrates how the recent recession, green marketing, and natural disasters impact contemporary consumer behavior. Convenient chapter-by-chapter student study cards help users easily transition to this new edition. The CB6 Enhanced CourseMate interactive online resources bring concepts to life with learning and study tools that ensure user engagement. In an unforgettable presentation focused on users' needs, CB6 brings consumer behavior to life.

Biographie:
In addition to coauthoring four textbooks, Barry Babin has published over 70 research publications in prestigious periodicals such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Retailing, Psychological Reports, Psychology and Marketing, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Dr. Babin also has won numerous honors for his research, including the University of Southern Mississippi Louis K. Brandt Faculty Research Award (on three occasions), the 1996 Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) Steven J. Shaw Award, and the 1997 Omerre DeSerres Award for Outstanding Contributions to Retail and Service Environment Research. His research focuses on the effect of the service environment on employees and customers, and his expertise lies in building successful outcomes that support long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with employees and customers. He also has expertise in encouraging creativity in the workplace and in wine marketing. Dr. Babin's primary teaching specialties involve consumers and service quality, marketing research, and creative problem solving, and he is a popular and frequent international presenter, having lectured in Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Babin is current president of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, former president of the Society of Marketing Advances, and marketing editor for the Journal of Business Research. Dr. Eric Harris is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He holds BBA and MBA degrees from Pittsburg State University and a PhD from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Harris's professional and consulting experiences include work in sales management, healthcare marketing, and customer satisfaction assessment. He is actively engaged in research and has been published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Advertising, Psychology and Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, and others. Dr. Harris also serves on the editorial review boards for the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, the Journal of Services Marketing, and Services Marketing Quarterly. He is Consulting Editor for the Journal of Managerial Issues and has coauthored a chapter in the Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing with Dr. Babin. Dr. Harris's research focuses primarily on personality issues pertaining to consumer and employee behavior, customer-contact personnel, customer orientation, and sales force goal orientations. He is affiliated with a number of professional associations, including the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, Society of Marketing Advances, and Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators.

Sommaire:
Part I: INTRODUCTION. 1. What Is CB and Why Should I Care? 2. Value and the Consumer Behavior Framework. Part II: INTERNAL INFLUENCES. 3. Consumer Learning Starts Here: Perception. 4. Comprehension, Memory, and Cognitive Learning. 5. Motivations and Emotion: Driving Consumer Behavior. 6. Personality, Lifestyles, and the Self-Concept. 7. Attitudes and Attitude Change. Part III: EXTERNAL INFLUENCES. 8. Group and Interpersonal Influence. 9. Consumer Culture. 10. Microcultures. Part IV: SITUATIONS AND DECISION MAKING. 11. Consumers in Situations. 12. Decision Making I: Need Recognition and Search. 13. Decision Making II: Alternative Evaluation and Choice. Part V: CONSUMPTION AND BEYOND. 14. Consumption to Satisfaction. 15. Consumer Relationships. 16. Consumer and Marketing Misbehavior.

CB gives a broad coverage of consumer behavior in a format that students relate to and are more apt to read before class.