Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Consumer Behavior
Personality and Self-concept ( own self-concept, ideal self concept, others self
concept)
Learning
Memory
Buying roles
Initiator
Influencer
Decider
Buyer
User
Buying Behavior
Buying Decision Process
Need recognition/Problem recognition
Information search (Sources- Personal, Commercial, Public, Experiential)
Evaluation of Alternatives (Beliefs and Attitudes)
Purchase decision- Expectancy value model- compensatory model( good things over bad
things)
Non compensatory models- conjunctive heuristic, lexicographic heuristic, elimination by aspects
heuristic
Intervening factors- Attitude of others, Unanticipated situational factors,
Perceived risks ( Functional risks, physical risk, financial risk, social risk, psychological risk, time risk)
Post Purchase Behavior Post purchase satisfaction, Post Purchase actions, Post
Purchase use and disposal
Organizational Buying
Straight Rebuy
Modified Rebuy
New Task
Systems Buying : Buying a total solution to a problem
from one seller.
Leverage products: These products have high value and cost to the
customers but involve little risk of supply.
Strategic products: These products have high value and cost to the
customer and also involve high risk.
Bottleneck products: These products have low value and cost to the
customer but they involve some risk.
Organizational Buying Process
Problem recognition: Need could be triggered either by an internal
stimuli or an external stimuli.