ASIAN JOURNAL FOR POVERTY STUDIES (AJPS)
Vol 1, No 2 (2015)

COUNTERFEITS AND THEIR COSTS

Hien, Pham Thi My (Unknown)
Trang, Nguyen Thi Mai (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Nov 2015

Abstract

Counterfeiting is increasing and becoming a complicated issue across different countries in the world and Vietnam is not exceptional, so the policy makers and managers always try to find ways to face with the counterfeiting and reduce counterfeit products in the market. This paper attempts to investigate determinants that impact on consumers’ attitude toward non-deceptive counterfeit products and behavioral intention to purchase them. Using a data set collected from a sample of 176 consumers we found that social cost has an impact on consumers’ attitude and purchase intentiontoward counterfeit products. Moreover, the result indicates that intention to buy counterfeit products is influenced by consumers’ attitude toward these products. These findings suggest that companies should rely on the social cost as the main component of marketing communication messages to discourage consumption of fake products by implying the seriously harmful consequences of these goods to society and economy.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ajps

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

Asian Journal for Poverty Studies (AJPS) is the official publication of Regional Network on Poverty Eradication (RENPER) and serves as media for promoting innovative theoretical and empirical research on poverty alleviation. AJPS is a peer reviewed international journal publishing research articles ...