Reports on an analysis of the relative importance of various marketing
mix strategies and consumer ethnocentric tendencies in the decision to
purchase imports undertaken via a nationwide mail survey of personal
computer owners in the USA. The results indicate that ethnocentric
tendencies are able to explain a much greater amount of variation in
purchase behaviour than marketing mix variables. Concludes that the
inclusion of ethnocentric tendencies into future studies on origin bias
appears to be warranted given their substantial impact on import
purchase behaviour.
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