James U. McNeal

Professor James U McNeal

Insights and Implications

Children as Consumers

Kara K. W. Chan

Kara Chan

China has the largest child population in the world. This book provides answers to various questions and draws conclusions about Chinese children as a market and its implications for advertisers and marketers, parents, policy makers and social groups.

Advertising to Children in China

The book demonstrates how consumer development is intertwined with cognitive and motor development; each of the three dependent on the other two. Showing consumer behavior being responsible for body and mind development is new thinking; yet, the examples are clearly presented so that any interested person can grasp them. Presenting consumer behavior in stages of development, while logical, is essentially new also. We are familiar with cognitive development, for example, being described in stages, but not CB. In fact, stages of cognitive development are sometimes used as a framework for explaining consumer behavior but not its development as such. In this sense then, the book might be considered cutting edge as compared to one that offers a slightly different approach to the existing thought on consumer behavior. - focuses on the *process* of how young children become consumers - takes developmental approach to a key area in consumer marketing - provides theory and international examples, including several drawn from the authors experience in China

The Development of Consumer Behavior Patterns in Childhood

On Becoming a Consumer

"This book has three parts: (1) an overview; (2) myths and realities about children as a market (chapters 1-8); and (3) myths and realities about children's responses to marketing behavoiur (chapters 9-21). The first eight chapters describe myths and their realities regarding children as a market segment. I demonstrate the enormous market potential children hold todday is far beyond the penny-candy potential once attributed to them. I characterize children as not one but three markets - a current market spennding their own money on their own wants and needs; an influence market spending mom's and dad's money on their own wants and needs; and a future market for all goods and services. In the third part of the book - chapters 9 through 21 - I detail children's reactions to marketing, specifically, their responses to stores, products, including social products, brands, advertising, promotion, public relations, and packaging." -Preface.

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