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A LITERATURE REVIEW
KHALID I. AL-SULAITI & MICHAEL J. BAKER
less prestigious, less popular and less widely distributed than products made
in US”.
Erickson, et al. (1984) analysed the country of origin
effects on the evaluation of automobile brands.
Subjects were asked about their beliefs and
attitudes towards ten automobile models (e.g. four
US, two German and four Japanese models).
The empirical results indicated that country of
price.
Nationalism was found to be a dominant factor in influencing
income tended to have a positive correlation with the attributes of price and
quality in the case of carpets and air-conditioners, and a negative correlation
with the attributes of quality and maintenance for cars and design of outerwear
and refrigerators.
Higher the level of education, the more people are in favour of imported
Reierson (1966):
Respondents rated products “made in USA” the