The transition of individuals through episodes of poverty: from adjustment of consumption to identity reconfiguration

La transition des individus par des épisodes de pauvreté: de l’ajustement de la consommation à la reconfiguration identitaire

Abdelmajid Amine () and Toumi Alia ()
Additional contact information
Abdelmajid Amine: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
Toumi Alia: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This research explores the coping strategies implemented by consumers crossing a temporary period of financial restraint. Our findings show that, in addition to traditional adjustment strategies mobilized by permanently poor consumers, individuals facing a temporary precarious situation deploy strategies allowing them to emancipate from the market based primarily on resistance to consumption and on adoption of deviant behaviors. These adjustments of consumption are coupled with identity arrangements to ensure self-congruence with the experienced precarious situation. Finally some implications related to the opportunities to prevent and include consumers temporarily impoverished are drawn for the market, public authorities and civilian society organizations.

Keywords: Episode de pauvreté; émancipation; stratégies d’ajustement; consommation.; reconfiguration identitaire; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2018, 22 (2), pp.144-158

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01506972

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().