Consumer Empowerment: The Framework

Sanam Akhavannasab, Danilo Dantas, Sylvain Senecal

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    Abstract

    Now, consumers possess more power than they ever have before. The study of consumer empowerment has become an important aspect in analysis of consumer behavior. However, the general model of consumer empowerment process has been barely addressed in the marketing literature. This research suggests a novel conceptual framework for the consumer empowerment process. The subjective concept of consumer empowerment is developed a long with an analysis of the antecedents and outcomes of this concept. Moreover, it sheds light on how the consumer empowerment process is related to the different stages of consumer decision-making. This research demonstrates that nowadays, market strategies and structures, such as competition, technology, consumer-centric strategies and consumer policies, impact upon the consumer’s experience of decision-making by increasing consumer power. These factors _called as “environmental factors”_ provide consumer empowering facilitators: availability of information and options, consumer-to-consumer interactions, consumer-to-supplier interactions, and consumer-to-legal activists interactions. These facilitators increase consumer subjective feeling of empowerment which includes consumer self-efficacy, perceived choice and consumer knowledge. Finally, this subjective experience of empowerment enhances consumer feeling of power.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAssociation of Marketing Theory and Practice
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    EventAssociation of Marketing Theory and Practice 2014 Annual Meeting - Hilton Head, United States
    Duration: 27 Mar 201429 Mar 2014

    Conference

    ConferenceAssociation of Marketing Theory and Practice 2014 Annual Meeting
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityHilton Head
    Period27/03/1429/03/14

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