Toward an understanding of young consumers' daily consumption practices in post-Doi Moi Vietnam

Nhat Nguyen Nguyen, Nil Özçaglar-Toulouse and Dannie Kjeldgaard

Journal of Business Research, 2018, vol. 86, issue C, 490-500

Abstract: More than 30years have passed since Doi Moi, the economic and political reforms that transformed Vietnam into a lower middle-income market from one of the world's poorest markets. This transformation brought about changes in the consumption practices of Vietnamese consumers. Despite several studies focusing on these changes, the impact of the government's politics on young Vietnamese consumers' consumption practices has been largely unexamined. This study explores how young Vietnamese consumers develop and express their self-identity through their everyday consumption practices. Our findings from in-depth interviews and participatory observation indicate that consumption fosters reflexive self-awareness concerning the young consumers' competences, body sensitivities, and distinctive tastes in response to the control exerted by the government. The findings also reveal that young Vietnamese consumers use their everyday consumption practices to achieve individualization through self-emancipation, self-enrichment, and self-actualization, and to achieve socialization through self-authentication and self-cultivation. In this way, young Vietnamese consumers reject the communist identity and lifestyles promoted by the government.

Keywords: Young consumer; Vietnam; Self-identity; Everyday consumption practices; Qualitative approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.002

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