“…Previous research employed market mavens with other consumer-related constructs (Chelminski & Coulter, 2007;Cleveland & Bartikowski, 2018;Reinecke Flynn & Goldsmith, 2017), revealing its antecedents (Flynn, Goldsmith, & Pollitte, 2016;Gauri, Harmon-Kizer, & Talukdar, 2016;Zhang & Lee, 2014) and its significant and positive effect on different consumer behaviour outcomes (Gauri et al, 2016;Hanson, Kukar-Kinney, & Yuan, 2021;Rubio, Villaseñor, & Oubiña, 2015). In terms of generational differences, maven has recently attracted attention and has been subject to a limited number of studies revealing the general attitudes of a certain generation group (Hourigan & Bougoure, 2012;Khan, Fazili, & Bashir, 2022) or comparison between generations (Brosdahl & Carpenter, 2011;Goldring & Azab, 2021).…”