The myriad meanings of cultural identities: A response to commentaries on “consumer cultural identities”
International Marketing Review
ISSN: 0265-1335
Article publication date: 29 May 2019
Issue publication date: 15 August 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide the authors’ response to three commentaries (Batra and Wu, 2019; Papadopoulos, 2019; Westjohn and Magnusson, 2019) on Strizhakova and Coulter (2019), “Consumer cultural identities: local and global cultural identities and measurement implications,” International Marketing Review.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper and a response to commentaries on the initial paper Strizhakova and Coulter (2019), “Consumer cultural identity: local and global cultural identities and measurement implications”.
Findings
This paper continues an important dialogue on the topic of multifaceted consumer cultural identities. Specifically, the authors discuss the myriad meanings of cultural identity, as well as meanings of global, local, disinterested/disidentified and glocal cultural beliefs. The paper offers directions and poses questions that warrant future research attention and have important implications for global and local brand managers.
Originality/value
The paper addresses important issues and future research directions about the provocative topic of consumer cultural identities, their meanings, measurements and practical/research implications.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank the editors for the opportunity to engage in this dialogue about consumer cultural identities, and the authors of the three commentaries to our paper, “Consumer cultural identities: local and global cultural identities and measurement implications,” for their insightful contributions. The issues raised in the commentaries further an open dialogue on the provocative topic of evolving consumer cultural identities, and their conceptualization and measurement. In this response, we leverage Westjohn and Magnusson’s (2019) subheading “The Meaning of […]” by adding an “s” because there are myriad meanings to consider. Although many of the issues put forth have implications that touch on global, local, and glocal meanings, we organize our responses around substantive points that have a primary focus on: cultural identity, global cultural identity beliefs, local cultural identity beliefs, the meanings of the unengaged and glocal cultural identity beliefs.
Citation
Strizhakova, Y. and Coulter, R. (2019), "The myriad meanings of cultural identities: A response to commentaries on “consumer cultural identities”", International Marketing Review, Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 642-646. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-01-2019-0015
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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