Abstract
Consumers' positive dispositions relating to foreign countries, cultures, and products are an important yet under-researched topic, compared against the volume of research on consumers' negative dispositions towards the same. Cosmopolitanism, conceptualized as a general dispositional orientation reflecting an affinity for cultural diversity and the proclivity to master it, garners increasing attention as a variable for international market segmentation. Empirical studies on cosmopolitanism are scarce, principally due to the absence of scale demonstrating sufficient cross-cultural validity across languages. This research reports on such a validation, across four countries and five languages. Psychometric evaluations entailed a number of techniques, including multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. The results largely confirm the cross-lingual applicability of the cosmopolitanism scale.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 268-277 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Business Research |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Mar |
Keywords
- Consumer behavior
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cross-cultural
- Globalization
- Scale validation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Marketing