The establishment of measurement invariance across groups is a logical prerequisite to conducting substantive cross-group comparisons (e.g., tests of group mean differences, invariance of structura...

A Review and Synthesis of the Measurement Invariance Literature: Suggestions, Practices, and Recommendations for Organizational Research

Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd ed.)

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/119.pdf

A model of destination image formation

http://www.esgt.ipt.pt/download/disciplina/2831__BuhalisDestinationMarketing.pdf

Marketing the competitive destination of the future

Learning orientation, firm innovation capability, and firm performance

Substantial evidence exists to support the proposition that consumer perceptions and preferences should be the basis for tourism marketing and consumerpolicy. Some of this evidence is reviewed, and a general model of traveler destination awareness and choice is presented. Results of an empirical test of the model provide some supportfor the hypotheses presented in the model.

A General Model Of Traveler Destination Choice

Argues that profiling consumer decision‐making styles has importance to marketers, advertisers and consumer affairs specialists, but developing an approach to quantify such profiles has been problematic. Reports the application of an instrument known as the consumer style inventory (CSI) to measure these profiles for samples of consumers from Greece, India, New Zealand and the USA. Indicates, from the results, that the instrument seems more applicable to higher income countries than to developing ones. Discusses implications regarding use of the instrument and cross‐cultural issues.

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Consumer Decision Making Styles: A Multi- Country Investigation

Examining the cross-national applicability of consumer behavior constructs and models is becoming increasingly more important. In this study, procedures for testing the cross-national applicability of models are illustrated. Specifically, the authors specify a model of attitude toward advertising in general and test its cross-national applicability with data from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark, Greece, and India. The results suggest that the relationships proposed in the model are applicable and similar in strength across the five countries.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/info/2489445

Assessing the Cross-national Applicability of Consumer Behavior Models: A Model of Attitude toward Advertising in General

Most studies that have developed and validated models and instruments in consumer affairs research have used U.S. samples. As a result, their cross-cultural generalizability remains unknown. This study reports a cross-cultural examination of a scale for profiling consumers' decision-making styles using a New Zealand sample. Examination of the scale's psychometric properties (i.e., dimensionality and reliability) offers general support for the scale's applicability to a different culture. Some differences were detected, however. The paper concludes with a discussion of these differences and the implications of the findings.

Cross-Cultural Generalizability of a Scale for Profiling Consumers' Decision-Making Styles

Purpose – Illegal downloading of music has become an inexorable and rampant activity particularly among college students who have been little deterred by industry legal actions. The purpose of this research is to examine the present state of downloading and how ethical orientation and attitudes towards MP3 piracy impact such activities. The paper also aims to use ethical scenarios as a way of understanding the ethical reasoning in illegal downloading.Design/methodology/approach – Key research questions are proposed that are related to illegal downloading. A sample of 364 university students was used to examine each research question. Statistical results are reported.Findings – The results clearly show that downloading continues at a high rate today driven by a strong belief that it is not ethically wrong. Ethical orientation was found to be positively associated with awareness of the social cost of downloading, consequences of downloading, and ethical belief in downloading. Ethical scenarios show that eth...

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Steven Lysonski

Papers

A General Model Of Traveler Destination Choice

Consumer Decision Making Styles: A Multi- Country Investigation

Assessing the Cross-national Applicability of Consumer Behavior Models: A Model of Attitude toward Advertising in General

Cross-Cultural Generalizability of a Scale for Profiling Consumers' Decision-Making Styles

Digital piracy of MP3s: consumer and ethical predispositions