Teacher(s)
Language
English
Main themes
How can I use sensory marketing to optimize my marketing mix?
What is the role of emotions in consumers buying'decisions?
How do culture and personality impact consumers'preferences?
In a fast evolving marketplace, understanding, predicting and influencing consumer behavior is central to marketing. This course will provide you with the models and techniques you'll need to effectively adopt and implement a consumer centric marketing approach.
In order to adapt to the evolution of our societies and the variety of factors that can affect consumers, students will learn how to analyze and shape consumers' beliefs, emotions et behaviors. The course will review how factors such as personality, group norms and culture affect consumer behavior.
This course will also address recent opportunities for marketers that are the rise of sensory marketing and of social media. Besides creating new needs and wants, these tools have generated profound changes in the way consumers interact with brands as well as with other consumers. This also impacts the way brand attitudes are formed based on the wealth of information available.
What is the role of emotions in consumers buying'decisions?
How do culture and personality impact consumers'preferences?
In a fast evolving marketplace, understanding, predicting and influencing consumer behavior is central to marketing. This course will provide you with the models and techniques you'll need to effectively adopt and implement a consumer centric marketing approach.
In order to adapt to the evolution of our societies and the variety of factors that can affect consumers, students will learn how to analyze and shape consumers' beliefs, emotions et behaviors. The course will review how factors such as personality, group norms and culture affect consumer behavior.
This course will also address recent opportunities for marketers that are the rise of sensory marketing and of social media. Besides creating new needs and wants, these tools have generated profound changes in the way consumers interact with brands as well as with other consumers. This also impacts the way brand attitudes are formed based on the wealth of information available.
Learning outcomes
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Content
1) General introduction : Presentation of the field of consumer behavior, its major evolutions and links to marketing
2) The attitude formation and decision making process : Main models of consumers’ attitude formation and attitude change
3) Influencing factors : Presentation of the variety of factors and techniques influencing consumers’ emotions, beliefs, and behavior
4) Technological evolutions : Social networks, consumer communities, electronic Word of Mouth … are some of the recent evolutions affecting consumer behavior
2) The attitude formation and decision making process : Main models of consumers’ attitude formation and attitude change
3) Influencing factors : Presentation of the variety of factors and techniques influencing consumers’ emotions, beliefs, and behavior
4) Technological evolutions : Social networks, consumer communities, electronic Word of Mouth … are some of the recent evolutions affecting consumer behavior
Teaching methods
Theoretical/methodological presentations (with practical illustrations), case studies & student presentations.
Evaluation methods
Individual written exam on all of the course content (75%)
Group assignments & in person presentations during the course on specific consumer behavior topics (25%)
NB: In case of failure in January, notes for the assignment/presentation will be automatically transfered to the September session. Only the exam part (75%) will be re-evaluated in September.
Group assignments & in person presentations during the course on specific consumer behavior topics (25%)
NB: In case of failure in January, notes for the assignment/presentation will be automatically transfered to the September session. Only the exam part (75%) will be re-evaluated in September.
Bibliography
A reference list will be provided to students
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