Preference for Domestic Goods: A Study of Consumer Ethnocentrism

Yogesh Upadhyay and Shiv Kumar Singh

Vision, 2006, vol. 10, issue 3, 59-68

Abstract: The importance of consumer attitudes towards products and classes of products in determining purchase behaviour is well established. The bias of consumers towards domestic goods, i.e., ethnocentrism, offers a vital clue to strategies of global corporations. Extensive debates and movements on this issue argue that it has a moral side as well. This paper attempts to explore the attitude Indians harbour towards consumption of domestic vis-Ã -vis foreign goods. The data from the study suggests tendency towards ethnocentrism that exists in Indians. It matches the level as found in the US and other developed countries. Moreover, the data suggests that ethnocentrism in Indians does not vary significantly with the selected levels of education, age and gender. In sum, this tendency is spread uniformly amongst socio-demographic groups selected for the study

Date: 2006
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