Description
Focuses on the basic concepts of consumer behavior in a variety of contexts. Understanding the decision process, attitude, and behavior of buyers is essential to developing marketing plans in today's competitive marketplace in which sophisticated customer relationship management approaches are dependent upon knowing the customer. Considers the major theoretical approaches to consumer behavior and examines how the concepts of affect and cognition, behavior, learning, and the environment can be used to design and maintain an effective marketing strategy. Offers students an opportunity also to gain a better understanding of their own buying behavior.