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Alain d'Astous

Alain d'Astous

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
43
Citations
9007
World Ranking
1411
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Alain d'Astous is affiliated with HEC Montréal in Canada and has contributed to the field of Business, Management and Accounting with a focus on Marketing and related subfields.

Their research spans several key topics including:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Wine Industry and Tourism

Within their body of work, the following papers are notable:

  • "The Impact of Responsible Food Packaging Perceptions on Naturalness and Healthiness Inferences, and Consumer Buying Intentions," 2021, published in Foods
  • "Self-gift giving and satisfaction with life: A behavioural tendency perspective," 2021, published in International Journal of Consumer Studies
  • "Country Image Effects in the Era of Protectionism," 2020, published in Journal of International Consumer Marketing

Frequent collaborators in their research include JoAnne Labrecque, Dania Mouakhar-Klouz, and Francis Charette.

Major publication venues where their research appears are:

  • Foods
  • International Journal of Consumer Studies
  • Journal of International Consumer Marketing

Their work intersects various subfields such as Marketing, Food Science, Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

Alain d'Astous was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Compulsive buying: Concept and measurement

    Gilles Valence;Alain d'Astous;Louis Fortier

  • A Study of Factors Affecting Consumer Evaluations and Memory of Product Placements in Movies

    Alain D'Astous;Francis Chartier

  • An inquiry into the compulsive side of “normal” consumers

    Alain d'Astous

  • Irritating Aspects of the Shopping Environment

    Alain d'Astous

  • Consumer reactions to product placement strategies in television sponsorship

    Alain d’Astous;Nathalie Séguin

  • Positioning countries on personality dimensions: Scale development and implications for country marketing

    Alain d'Astous;Lilia Boujbel

  • Antecedents, moderators and dimensions of country‐of‐origin evaluations

    Sadrudin A. Ahmed;Alain d'Astous

  • A scale for measuring store personality

    Alain d'Astous;Mélanie Lévesque

  • Compulsive Buying Tendencies of Adolescent Consumers

    Alain d'Astous;Julie Maltais;Caroline Roberge

  • Music Piracy on the Web – How Effective are Anti-Piracy Arguments? Evidence from the Theory of Planned Behaviour

    Alain d’Astous;François Colbert;Daniel Montpetit

  • The importance of country images in the formation of consumer product perceptions

    Alain d’Astous;Sadrudin A. Ahmed

  • Consumer evaluations of sponsorship programmes

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  • Consumer evaluations of brand imitations

    Alain d’Astous;Ezzedine Gargouri

  • Country-of-Origin and Brand Effects:

    Sadrudin A. Ahmed;Alain d'Astous

  • Understanding Consumers’ Ethical Justifications: A Scale for Appraising Consumers’ Reasons for Not Behaving Ethically

    Alain d’Astous;Amélie Legendre

  • An experimental investigation of factors affecting consumers' perceptions of sales promotions

    Alain d'Astous;Valérie Landreville

  • Understanding consumer reactions to premium‐based promotional offers

    Alain d’Astous;Isabelle Jacob

  • Comparison of country of origin effects on household and organizational buyers′ product perceptions

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  • Voluntary simplicity and life satisfaction: Exploring the mediating role of consumption desires

    Lilia Boujbel;Alain d'Astous

  • Perceptions of countries as producers of consumer goods: A T‐shirt study in China

    Sadrudin A. Ahmed;Alain d'Astous

  • For better, for worse? What to do when celebrity endorsements go bad

    François Anthony Carrillat;Alain d'Astous;Josianne Lazure

  • CANADIAN CONSUMERS' PERCEPTIONS OF PRODUCTS MADE IN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

    Sadrudin A. Ahmed;Alain d'Astous

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