The Influence of Values on Turkish Consumers' Product and Brand Choice


Prof. Dr. NEBİYE KONUK KANDEMİR

Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Market Research, Türkiye

Tez Danışmanı: Ahmet Kılıç Süerdem

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2003

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Özet:

The variation of consumer habits results in two crucial points in terms of producers' First of these points is necessity of variation of market segments. The second is the necessity of effort to point out the criterias in construct these segments.This study named "The lnfluence of Values on Turkish Consumers Product Brand Choice" has effort to enlighten the factors above with a scientific approach. Thus, a survey research was done and the questionnaire was tried to support with the literature review. This project has a difference from the other 'values' studies since 'Aaker's Brand Personality Scale' and 'Rokeach's Value Test' was used in this project' Thefirstchapteroftheprojectconstructsfromtheliteraturestudyabouttheconceptof values and the subject of consumption. This part is aimed to be able to find a relationship between consumer behavior and the concept the value' The second chapter is named behavior and stresses on the consumer. 'Product and Brand Choice' includes a general view of the buyer and the elements that affect the product and brand choice of the fourth chapter contains 'research findings' about our study. The same part is aimed to enlighten the techniques and methods which is used in this study. In short, the relationship between consumption patterns and values was tried to find out and survey research was done to be able to point out which groups having which 'values' choose what kind of products or brands.