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The challenge of publishing research about a never-ending subject for marketing scholars: The country of origin

市场营销学界出版研究面临的挑战:COO(原产地)

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Pages 160-165 | Received 30 Mar 2017, Accepted 15 Jun 2017, Published online: 14 Mar 2018
 

Abstract

The country of origin (COO) represents one of the main topics in the marketing literature and a large body of knowledge about it has already been published. This commentary essay tries to explain why it seems to be a never-ending subject for marketing scholars and the reason why the paper we published in this Journal few years ago contributed to the literature and has achieved the Google i-10 high citation-impact ranking. Analysing the effect of COO on a specific factor such as brand associations, the use of a methodology that cope with the critics of some scholars about the overstressed of COO in the past research, and the selection of an emerging market – the Chinese one – as country in which testing the COO have helped our paper to be cited. Based on these elements, some future research topics are also suggested.

原产地(COO)是市场营销文献探讨的主题之一,大量相关知识材料皆已出版发表,但近年来,这一主题热度可能将继续保持一种积极上升趋势。

本文意在阐释为什么COO(原产地)看起来像是市场营销学界永恒的话题。此外,我们还将重点阐明几年前我们于本期刊上发表的一篇论文丰富了市场营销文献,并成功引起Google i-10的高引用影响的原因。

关于COO(原产地)的研究如此活跃主要源于以下五方面因素:1)研究结论仍未能一致;2)品牌受到COO不同方面的影响,因此,学界还没有完成所有层面的分析;3)消费行为受到COO(原产地)信息的影响,因此这一系列文献连同其有待分析许多理论和不同方面也涉及到主题的展开4)关于COO(原产地)的研究过去主要聚焦于西方国家,因此需要对新兴国家(中国、巴西、印度)展开新研究。5)在全球化的世界中,制造国往往不是品牌起源地,许多研究人员正试图评估这种差别是否以及如何影响产品的评估。

在我们的研究中(Checchinato, Disegna, & Vescovi, 2013),我们试图阐释COO来填补前面提及的缺口:1)我们分析了COO对某个特定因素的影响,比如品牌联想。2)我们利用方法论,来回应一些学者关于在以往研究中过分强调COO诱因的批评3)选择一个新兴市场——中国——作为试验COO的国家。

事实上,我们研究考察了意大利产品的COO(原产地)对中国人自发品牌联想的影响,考察时我们避免了COO研究的一个主要问题:消费者/调查对象没有被人为地接触COO。我们并不要求评估研究人员所定义的与COO相关的品牌联想,而是要看到自发的品牌联想。将知道COO的调查对象和不知道COO的调查对象分别产生的自发联想进行对比,通过实例我们证明,COO并不是品牌联想形成的真正诱因。

此外,本文在中国人口中对COO的影响进行评估旨在填补营销文献的另一个空白,因为中国人口对意大利了解不足。

在人们意识中似乎存在着一种对COO的等级划分,理想上就是从宏观层面(多国地区,如欧洲)开始,再到微观层面(国家),最终到更微小的层面(区域,省)。研究结果显示,我们需要探讨对于COO的认知是否会受到受研究的两个国家之间在文化、地理、经济和/或历史上所存在的差异的影响。

因此,即使本文分析诸如COO这样一个经典的话题,这些因素的的本源也可以增加本篇文章的可引用性。

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