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Buyers' involvement profiles for personal care products: a comparison of rural and urban India

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  • Sakshi Sharma
  • Maninder Singh

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This study aims to explore the involvement profiles of buyers while buying personal care products and examines whether the residential background of buyers has a varying influence on their buying involvements. The results reveal four involvement dimensions along with three clusters for rural respondents and five involvement dimensions along with two clusters for urban respondents. Moreover profiles of respondents also reveal significant differences across clusters with respect to demographic variables. The involvement profiling shall help marketers in understanding the dimensions of involvement along with differences in involvement profiles of rural and urban respondents, so that they can design marketing strategies for personal care products buyers in better ways. It is the first kind of paper which highlights the need to think about involvement as a specific product class phenomenon specifically for personal care products.

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  • Sakshi Sharma & Maninder Singh, 2023. "Buyers' involvement profiles for personal care products: a comparison of rural and urban India," International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 31(2), pages 248-267.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbire:v:31:y:2023:i:2:p:248-267
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