{"title":"The Desire for Luxury in Emerging Markets: An Interactional Perspective on Consumer Motivations in Tunisia","authors":"Pranjal Gupta, Mouna Zaghdoudi","doi":"10.32873/UNL.DC.JADE911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32873/UNL.DC.JADE911","url":null,"abstract":"The motivations underlying the desire for luxury products and services have long been the subject\u0000of academic inquiry. An understanding of these motivations is useful for the luxury market industry\u0000to help managers formulate better marketing strategies. Further, such knowledge would also be\u0000useful to public policy makers to help them mitigate societal problems that may occur as a result\u0000of such consumption. Of particular interest is the growth of the luxury market in emerging\u0000economies. This study spotlights the luxury market in Tunisia. Previous work has demonstrated\u0000that age has a significant impact both on willingness to buy luxury products and spend significant\u0000proportions of one’s disposal income on such products. As an extension, the objective of this\u0000research is to extend these findings by exploring the interactions of age with other demographic\u0000variables. Based on survey data obtained from Tunisian Facebook users and analyzed using cross\u0000tabulations, this empirical research supports the hypotheses that gender, income, education and\u0000marital status moderate the inverse relationship between age and luxury consumption.","PeriodicalId":145327,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129155601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}