(Deceptive) Status Seeking Strategies in France and Tunisia

Do You Prefer Having More or More than Others in the Workplace? A Quasi‐experimental Survey in Algeria

“…Leading economists, such as Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, John Meynard Keynes, and Arthur Pigou, have recognized since a long time that people care about their relative economic position and are even willing to forgo money in order to gain status (Frank, 1985a;Solnick and Hemenway, 1998;Carlsson et al, 2007a;Grolleau et al, 2012a). 1 Positional concernsthat is, individuals' preference to having less in absolute terms of a given good or service if doing so conveys them a better relative situation, compared with others in their reference groupare pervasive in numerous real-world settings and have yet benefited from an important academic attention (e.g., Duesenberry, 1949;Hirsch, 1976;Frank, 1985aFrank, , 1985bNeumark and Postlewaite, 1993;Easterlin, 1995;Chao and Schor, 1998;Solnick and Hemenway, 1998, 2005Johansson-Stenman et al, 2002;Brekke et al, 2003;Van Kempen, 2003;Alpizar et al, 2005;Carlsson et al, 2007a;Greene and Nelson, 2007;Solnick et al, 2007;Carlsson and Qin, 2010;Bekir et al, 2011;Grolleau et al, 2012a;Anderson et al, 2015).…”

Examining the Cross-Cultural Dimensionality of Prestige Sensitivity: An Empirical Analysis of Chinese and American Millennials

“…Because of a lack of financial resources, access difficulties, and weaker enforcement of intellectual property rights, individuals from developing countries are significantly more likely to opt for deceptive status signaling by buying fakes (Bekir et al 2011). The results show that Tunisian college students were significantly more likely to purchase fake sunglasses than were French students (Bekir et al 2011).…”

“…The results show that Tunisian college students were significantly more likely to purchase fake sunglasses than were French students (Bekir et al 2011). Moreover, Asia has quality fake luxury brands that are consumed and generally accepted at all levels of society (Chadha and Husband 2006).…”

“…Hence, status brands provide symbolic benefits. Publically consumed goods portray status such as clothing, liquor, jewelry, housing, automobiles, and sunglasses (Eastman et al 1997;Shukla 2010;Bekir, Sana, and Gilles 2011). As an illustrative example, consider Dominique Perrin, President of Jeweler Cartier Alain, who said, "What people want when they wear a name like ours is to be recognized wearing it."…”

“…Prestige, status, and culture People in every age in every culture have always hunted for ways to obtain social cachet (Bekir et al 2011). Like a technological innovation, materialism and status consumption have spread around the world (Ger and Belk 1996).…”