I'll trade you diamonds for toilet paper: Consumer reacting, coping and adapting behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic

Colleen P. Kirk and Laura S. Rifkin

Journal of Business Research, 2020, vol. 117, issue C, 124-131

Abstract: In this research, we document some of the many unusual consumer behavior patterns that came to dominate the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We offer insights based on theory to help explain and predict these behaviors and associated outcomes in order to inform future research and marketing practice. Taking an environmentally-imposed constraints point of view, we examine behaviors during each of three phases: reacting (e.g., hoarding and rejecting), coping (e.g. maintaining social connectedness, do-it-yourself behaviors, changing views of brands) and longer-term adapting (e.g. potentially transformative changes in consumption and individual and social identity). We discuss implications for marketing researchers and practice.

Keywords: Coronavirus; COVID-19; Pandemic; Hoarding; Social distancing; Do-it-yourself; Digital technology; Consumer behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.028

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