Consumer Ethnocentrism, Country of Origin and Marketing: Food Market in Poland

Country of origin and consumer ethnocentrism are evolving constructs as consumers’ perception of country, state, or region changes over time. Understanding consumer motivations and attitudes towards a country and its products can provide valuable insights for marketing strategies.

This book explores the phenomena of consumer ethnocentrism and country-of-origin effect on the food market using examples from Polish retailers. The book aims to determine how appeals to the domestic or foreign country-of-origin provided through claims, symbols, labels, and quality signs can affect consumer attitudes and food purchase intentions as well as to contextualise consumer behaviour issues in the broader picture of the entire system of food production and distribution. The reader will gain a comprehensive understanding of consumer ethnocentrism and country-of-origin effect on the food market based on a series of original research studies conducted in Poland. The combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods provides novel and valuable insights into the phenomena under study.

Based on original research, this innovative volume will be a valuable resource for consumer behaviour, food marketing, and international marketing scholars and students.

Pawel Bryla is Associate Professor at the Department of International Marketing and Retailing, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz, Poland. His research interests revolve around consumer behaviour in the food market and food marketing as well as international student mobility. He has led two research projects funded by the National Science Centre, two research projects funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the Iuventus Plus programme, and headed the Polish team in an international research project: MERGE, funded by the European Commission. He has authored over 120 publications, including articles in such journals as: Nutrients, Appetite, British Food Journal, Sustainability, and Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods. He has edited two books in English, coordinating international teams of authors. He is an editorial board member of international journals, including: Foods, Sustainability, European Journal of International Management, Central European Management Journal, and Economia Agro-Alimentare. In Google Scholar, he has 1575 citations, with the Hirsch index of 19.

Tomasz Domański is Full Professor and Director of the Department of International Marketing and Retailing, University of Lodz, Poland, and Director of a Polish-French MBA programme. He also served as Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, and as the President of the Committee of Academic Policy advising the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. His research interests include marketing strategies of distribution chains, food marketing, place marketing, and university internationalisation. He has been involved in numerous national and international research and education projects, and has authored and co-authored over 180 academic publications, including 20 books, in Poland and abroad. He was the local coordinator of the CampusCulturae project in the framework of the EU Culture programme. He was the supervisor of 12 successful doctoral dissertations in management. Since 1990, he has been a marketing consultant for numerous renowned Polish and foreign businesses.