Therefore, this study expands the current understanding of consumer behaviour in respect of consumer involvement with its focus on China, an increasingly important market currently drawing significant commercial resources from multinational businesses and research attentions globally from academics.Overall, the theory developed for this study provides an additional perspective to capture consumer behaviour related to brands, especially fashion brands. The two brand related consumer responses, brand status and brand attitude, were hypothesised as consequences of an important marketing concept, consumer involvement, and as antecedents of an ultimate consumer reaction, willingness to pay a premium. Also, the findings in this study found that various scales used to operationalise the different constructs were appropriate to tap respective consumer behaviour, namely, consumer involvement, brand status, brand attitude and WTP. In fact, all the internal reliability coefficients achieved 0.8 or above, well above Hairs et al.’s (2006) 0.6 criteria (see Tables I to IV). Such high internal reliability indicated high internal consistency among the items used in respective scales. Furthermore, this study added to the extant consumer literature by exploring consumer behaviour from a brand perspective using brand stimuli to tap consumers’ responses to the four selected fashion clothing brands, Calvin Klein, Esprit, Giordano and Yishion. These four brands are all present in China but with very different branding strategies targeting different market segments and therefore, to a large extent, representing a competitive landscape of the fashion clothing market in China – a broad spectrum of fashion brand positioning from mass low price segment such as the local affordable brand Yishion to premium high price segment such as the imported luxury brand Calvin Klein.Importantly, this study expanded our current understanding of a growingly important consumer segment – the Generation Yadults aged 18-25. As a matter of fact, the Chinese Generation Y segment is estimated to have about 200 million consumers (Stanat, 2006), a considerable business opportunity for many multinational corporations competing in the marketplace of China (Arora, 2005; McEwen, 2005). The findings of this study provide an insight into the Gen Y Chinese adult consumer revealing that Gen Y respondents who scored high in consumer involvement ratings would perceive those premium brands as status brands and, in general, would hold a positive attitude towards those brands. These consumers appear to be more willing to pay extra for a status brand or a brand of which they hold positive attitudes.
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