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  • 标题:Ethnocentrism in the U.S.: an examination of CETSCALE stability from 1994 to 2008.
  • 作者:Lumb, Ruth ; Kuperman, Jerome C.
  • 期刊名称:Academy of Marketing Studies Journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:1095-6298
  • 出版年度:2012
  • 期号:January
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The DreamCatchers Group, LLC
  • 摘要:The consumer ethnocentrism scale (CETSCALE) developed by Shimp and Sharma (1987) has been used by researchers in marketing strategy ever since its introduction as a tool for measuring consumer attitudes regarding the appropriateness of purchasing foreign produced goods and services. Specifically, strongly ethnocentric consumers feel that buying imported goods is wrong because it negatively affects the domestic economy and may be viewed as unpatriotic. There is extensive empirical work that has been done to support the link between CETSCALE scores and intended purchase behaviors (e.g., Acharya and Elliott, 2003; Balabamis and Diamantopoulos, 2004; Evanschitzky, Wangenheim, Woisetschlager, and Blut, 2008; Watson and Wright, 2002). The findings are particularly robust in studies done in Western developed economies showing a positive correlation between ethnocentrism and the likelihood of purchasing domestically produced products (Klein, Ettenson, and Krishnan, 2006). Consumers in advanced economies generally take pride in their domestic products and judge them favorably compared to foreign goods (Balabanis, Diamantopoulos, Mueller, and Melewar, 2001, Netemeyer, Durvasula, and Lichtenstein, 1991).
  • 关键词:Competition (Economics);Ethnocentrism;Market strategy

Ethnocentrism in the U.S.: an examination of CETSCALE stability from 1994 to 2008.


Lumb, Ruth ; Kuperman, Jerome C.


INTRODUCTION

The consumer ethnocentrism scale (CETSCALE) developed by Shimp and Sharma (1987) has been used by researchers in marketing strategy ever since its introduction as a tool for measuring consumer attitudes regarding the appropriateness of purchasing foreign produced goods and services. Specifically, strongly ethnocentric consumers feel that buying imported goods is wrong because it negatively affects the domestic economy and may be viewed as unpatriotic. There is extensive empirical work that has been done to support the link between CETSCALE scores and intended purchase behaviors (e.g., Acharya and Elliott, 2003; Balabamis and Diamantopoulos, 2004; Evanschitzky, Wangenheim, Woisetschlager, and Blut, 2008; Watson and Wright, 2002). The findings are particularly robust in studies done in Western developed economies showing a positive correlation between ethnocentrism and the likelihood of purchasing domestically produced products (Klein, Ettenson, and Krishnan, 2006). Consumers in advanced economies generally take pride in their domestic products and judge them favorably compared to foreign goods (Balabanis, Diamantopoulos, Mueller, and Melewar, 2001, Netemeyer, Durvasula, and Lichtenstein, 1991).

The overwhelming evidence linking CETSCALE scores to purchase intentions in advanced economies is important and useful information to strategists thinking about competing in markets with both foreign and domestic competitors and whether to position their brands based on being foreign or domestic (Klein, 2002). However, one potential weakness of the empirical work done so far is that ethnocentrism studies are normally done at a single point in time. Such studies allow for tests that show significance of the independent variable at that point of time; however, there is no way to gauge the behavioral sensitivity of consumers to attitudinal changes over time. Nielsen and Spence (1997) attempted to address this question by conducting surveys in the U.S. over an eight week period during which significant "patriotic events", as the authors termed them, had occurred (e.g., terrorist bombings, political campaigning, and the Olympics). Lumb and Geib (2011) also addressed this question but in a developing country context, looking at two samples of Chinese consumers surveyed eleven years apart.

More studies need to be done over time to judge the stability of consumer ethnocentrism (CETSCALE scores). Further, to best judge stability, we would argue for multiple surveys conducted over the course of years and not weeks. This paper attempts to fill in this gap in the literature by analyzing the annual movement of CETSCALE scores in the U.S. between 1994 and 2010. Also of note is the fact that our sample includes data before and after the attacks of 9/11--arguably one of the biggest "patriotic events" in recent U.S. history. So, large shifts in attitude might be expected around this major event. This provides an even greater opportunity to test, in the face of a major event, the sensitivity of consumer ethnocentrism as measured by CETSCALE scores.

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Globalization and Its Likely Effect on CETSCALE Stability

Globalization has been made possible by world-wide foreign direct investment, production and marketing; advances in telecommunication technologies and the internet; increases in world travel; the growth of global media; and technological advances that have made it easier and quicker to complete international transactions--both trade and financial flows--and to acquire information about other countries (Ozsomer and Simonin, 2004; Steenkamp & Hofstede, 2002; Stremersch & Tellis, 2004; Van Everdingen, Aghina, & Fok, 2005).

Globalization is particularly impactful in developing countries where shifts in lifestyles and wealth accumulation can be very dramatic compared to already developed countries. For instance, in the obvious example of China, from 1979 to 2006, China's real gross domestic product grew at an average annual rate of 9.7%, the size of the economy increased over eleven-fold, and its real per capita GDP grew over eight-fold (Congressional Research Service, 2007). Such dramatic changes in wealth accumulation most certainly affect consumption behaviors and attitudes over time. Hamzaoui, Essoussi and Merunka (2007) observe that with this economic growth, there is an accompanying change in the availability of products in local markets. At first, there is a lack of local manufacturers and the attraction of growing markets invites foreign manufacturers to fill the void. This phenomena may in part explain the finding by Lumb and Geib (2011) that consumer ethnocentrism of Chinese consumers, as reflected in CETSCALE scores, was lower in 2006 than in 1995. Of course, over time this process becomes more complicated as some foreign brands begin to lose their appeal to Chinese consumers as local Chinese manufacturers enter the market and their brands increase in quality and attractiveness (Zhou and Hui 2003; Li, 2004).

We would propose that the Chinese example discussed above is consistent with a pattern of change found throughout the developing world. In this process, there is extreme market volatility as dramatic changes in wealth create large changes in market competition and, by extension, large changes in consumer attitudes about foreign products. While globalization is impacting competition in markets all over the globe, the quite dramatic changes that can be seen in a developing country like China are completely different from those that would be expected in developed countries. By contrast, wealthier countries such as the U.S. already have very well established markets with relatively stable competition as well as educated, wealthy consumers. Changes brought about by globalization should be incrementally much less impactful to both real economic activity and consumer attitudes in this context than in the developing country context.

Patriotism, Ethnocentrism and the Durability of Attitudinal Shifts

Social identity theory in the psychology literature (see review in Hogg, 2006) focuses on the idea that people psychologically identify themselves as belonging to groups based on shared attributes that distinguish them collectively. Consumer ethnocentrism reflects a high level of social identity with the national collective and, consistent with a strong national identity, is the feeling of patriotism, i.e., to feel love for country and an attachment to national values (Skitka, 2005). This psychological link between the constructs of consumer ethnocentrism and patriotism in the minds of consumers is explained by Shimp and Sharma (1987: 280) as follows:

"From the perspective of ethnocentric consumers, purchasing imported products is wrong because, in their minds, it hurts the domestic economy, causes loss of jobs, and is plainly unpatriotic; products from other countries (i.e., out groups) are objects of contempt to highly ethnocentric consumers."

Empirical work done in the marketing literature has largely supported that there is in fact a strong relationship between consumer ethnocentrism and both patriotism and Hofstede's (1984) collectivism dimension. In Shankarmahesh's (2006) review of the literature that has studied the antecedents to consumer ethnocentrism, he found four studies that looked at the collectivism variable and six studies that looked at patriotism. In his summary, he identifies all four studies that looked at collectivism as having found a positive relationship between collectivism and consumer ethnocentrism while five of the six studies that looked at patriotism found a positive relationship (one study found no relationship).

Given the relationship between patriotism, reflected by a strong sense of collective national identity, and ethnocentrism, the events of 9/11 can be hypothesized to be a particularly relevant variable affecting U.S. consumer ethnocentrism. Terror Management Theory (TMT), as discussed by Thomas (2003: 859), "holds that individuals initially employ simple, direct defenses to banish death-related thoughts." One defense is an increased identification with and loyalty to one's worldview. In the case of 9/11, Thomas (2003) found heightened levels of patriotism in her survey of mid-life American women. Thomas' (2003) findings are also supported by other survey research done immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon that also indicated Americans had an increased sense of patriotism following the attacks (Davies, Steele and Markus, 2008; Skitka, 2005; Traugott, et. al., 2002). The survey done by Traugott, et. al. (2002: 514) through the Institute for Social Research found that changes in attitude tended to "reflect more patriotism and national pride than an opposition to foreigners" noting the result as "a kind of patriotism of mutual support rather than a jingoistic reaction to all foreigners or even immigrants." This evidence suggests that Americans should have become more ethnocentric in the year immediately following the attacks in large part because of an enhanced sense of patriotism and a greater sense of collective belonging.

Of course, while no event in recent American history compares with 9/11, there are still many events that occur over time that could be considered as well as 'patriotic' events powerful enough to affect ethnocentrism levels. There is always the possibility that any of these other events could also have affected people's sense of patriotism and ethnocentrism just as we have hypothesized for 9/11. The study conducted by Nielsen and Spence (1997: 70) identified the summer of 1992 as having "several events" that could affect patriotism noting that "given the recent spate of terrorist bombings, political campaigning, and events such as the Olympics, the effect of patriotism should not be ignored." The findings from Nielsen and Spence's (1997) study as they tracked CETSCALE scores over eight weeks were somewhat inconclusive. They found that scores were stable for the population but not so for two specific sub-groups--military versus non-military personnel. Our sample will include a number of events similar to the events identified by Nielsen and Spence (1997) including the Oklahoma City bombing, multiple political campaigns, and the tech stock market bubble.

The durability of attitudinal changes following traumatic events is a complex variable to assess. Some events will tend to produce more permanent reactions compared to other events. There is extensive work done in psychology to deal with stress disorders following traumatic events and issues of recovery In their review of the associated literature, Aldwin, Sutton, and Lachman (1996) note that "much of the literature supports the notion that the effect of stressors on mental and physical health is relatively short lived (p. 841)." However, they also observe following their own experimental study that "under highly stressful circumstances, deviation amplification processes may occur that result in long-term changes in personality (p. 866)." Basically, coping mechanisms lead to no lingering effects in many cases; but, more devastating events require internal coping processes that have more long-lasting personality impacts. Any of the events that we have identified as potential patriotic events, including the 9/11 attacks, were not personalized events with important impacts on the daily lives of most Americans. Comparatively, such events are of minimal impact when contrasted with things like being assaulted or facing the unexpected death of a loved one and, as noted in Aldwin, et. al., (1996), such effects are often very short-term in nature. We would therefore suggest that any observable attitudinal changes in terms of ethnocentrism should similarly be only short-lived; immediate reactions that would not persist into the long-term.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Given the preceding, we present the following research questions:

Research Question 1: Do CETSCALE scores in the U.S. remain stable with little variation over time?

Research Question 2 Consistent with heightened levels of patriotism felt by Americans following the 9/11 attacks, did CETSCALE scores in the U.S. increase immediately following the 9/11 attacks?

Research Question 3: Did CETSCALE scores following the 9/11 attacks return towards pre-attack levels?

RESEARCH DESIGN AND SAMPLE CHARACTERISTICS

Data Collection

Survey research techniques were utilized to obtain the data for the study from a convenience sample. The total sample consisted of a total of 949 respondents, the majority of who were college students, who participated in the study. The 1994 and 2005 samples were from a larger study and not limited to college students. The questionnaire contained demographic information questions and the Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale, which is a measure of respondents' ethnocentric tendencies. Respondents completed the 17-item CETSCALE on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The sum of the responses on each of the 17 items indicates the respondent's ethnocentric tendency with a higher score indicating a higher ethnocentric tendency. In addition to the yearly data, samples were found for both the Fall and Spring term classes in 2001 and 2002, allowing for a comparison of CETSCALE scores immediately before and after 9/11.

Respondent Characteristics

Age

For all the samples the largest percentage of respondents placed themselves in the 17-25 year old age category: 95.2% of the total number of respondents is between the ages of 17-25 years. As this was mainly a convenience sample of college students, this age category was expected to be the largest.

Gender

The number of respondents who disclosed their gender was 489 males and 377 females. To determine if there was significant difference in the number of male and female respondents a Chi-Square statistic was computed ([chi square] = 18.80713, df = 18, prob. =.4038), indicating that there was not a significant differences in the number of males and female respondents.

Student Sample

The results of this study should be viewed in light of the convenience sample of students. Some researchers have found that student samples may suffer from a lack of external validity (e.g., Sears, 1996) although external validity concerns have been found to require more attention in theoretical research studies (Winer, 1999; Lynch, 1999). It is possible that different samples of the population may have higher or lower CETSCALE Scale scores than the students sampled. However, the use of student samples in this study can be plausibly rationalized since the 9/11 event was also experienced by the students.

ANALYSIS

Research Question 1: Do CETSCALE scores in the U.S. remain stable with little variation over time?

In order to answer this question, the mean CETSCALE score for each group (i.e., year) was calculated. Figure 1 graphically shows the mean CETSCALE score by year. Table 1 presents the specific sample data for each of the year's in the study.

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In order to determine if CETSCALE scores remain stable with little variation over time, a t test between the mean CETSCALE score for successive years was conducted. The results of the t tests indicate that there are statistically significant differences between many of the successive years. A statistically significant difference for the CETSCALE scores was not found for the following samples: 1994-1995; 1998-1999; 2001 Fall -2002 Spring; 2003-2004; 2005-2006; 2008-2009; 2009-2010.

It seems important at this point to remember that statistical significance is not the same as practical significance. Strategists recognize that attitudinal adjustments are always occurring within the population; but, they also recognize that not all adjustments are significant shifts. A visual examination of Figure 1 indicates that although t tests indicate some statistically significant differences between the CETSCALE scores for a number of successive years, there are only two dramatic spikes during the time period of the current study. Otherwise, scores appear to the naked eye to be actually quite stable outside of those two spikes. One spike can be, as we anticipated, attributed to the 9/11 terrorist attack. The other spike, similar in scale to that found following the attacks on 9/11, occurs in 1996. Statistically speaking, it may be that this one data point is simply a random outlier. But, the other possibility is that some other 'patriotic' event(s) in 1996 may have occurred that contributed to the spike. While no event in recent American history compares with 9/11, it is interesting that 1996 did have two acts of terrorism that affected U.S. civilians. On June 27th of that year a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia killing 19. The Atlanta Olympic Games began July 20th and on July 27th a bomb exploded at Atlanta Olympic Park killing 1 and injuring 110.

It is impossible to know if either of these events contributed to the 1996 spike, but it is certainly very reasonable to consider that they might have. However, we cannot know for sure which types of events or what specific aspects of the events might contribute to spikes. While 1996 did witness two terrorist attacks which were prominently covered by the news media, it was not the only year where terrorist attacks happened (e.g., 1995 Oklahoma City car bombing outside a federal office building; attack of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in 2002; attacks on Western targets in Saudi Arabia in 2003 and 2004). It is not clear what is exactly unique about the events in 1996 that would have made them more like 9/11 but still different from any of the other events. Some have argued that because of the constant television coverage and the opportunity for people to continually reminded of the horrific experience by the media, "this event [9/11 attacks] was unique in the number of people exposed and the degree to which it was perceived as personal (Meisenhelder, 2002:771)." Maybe the extensive television coverage associated with the Olympics is the common thread.

Research Question 2: Consistent with heightened levels of patriotism felt by Americans following the 9/11 attacks, did CETSCALE scores in the U.S. increase immediately following the 9/11 attacks?

In order to answer this research question, two statistical procedures were conducted. First, to determine if there are statistically significant differences between respondents' CETSCALE scores in the years before and after 9/11, the sample was divided into two groups, pre and post 9/11. The data were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results of the ANOVA (F=15.5743, df = 1,902, prob. =.0001) indicate that there is a statistically significance difference in the CETSCALE scores between the pre 9/11 and post 9/11 groups. Second, to determine if the CETSCALE scores increased immediately following the 9/11 attacks, Spring 2001 and Fall 2001 samples were subjected to a Student's T-Test for a comparison of the means. The results, which are presented in Table 2, indicate that CETSCALE scores in the U.S. did increase immediately following the 9/11 attacks. This suggests that Americans became more ethnocentric in the year immediately following the attacks and, as previously stated, this may be in large part because of an enhanced sense of patriotism and a greater sense of collective belonging.

Research Question 3: If they changed following 9/11, did CETSCALE scores following the 9/11 attacks return to pre-attack levels?

In order to answer this research question, t tests between successive yearly means were performed. The results of the t tests indicate a significant difference between the means for the 2002 Spring and 2002 Fall samples (t = 14.53, df = 77.65, prob =. 000). As indicated in Table 1, the Mean CETSCALE score of 93.11 for the 2002 Spring sample is significantly higher than the Mean CETSCALE score of 47.21 for the 2002 Fall sample. It is possible that in the spring of 2002 people were still recovering from 9/11 and by fall the recovery process had started. The t test between the 2002 Fall and 2003 samples (t = -3.01, df = 57.39, prob = .004) indicates a significant difference between the CETSCALE score for the two years. For the years between 2003--2005, there is not a significant difference in the CETSCALE score between the 20032004 samples (t = 0.39, df = 57.05, prob = .695) while and between the 2004 and 2005 samples there is again a statistically significant difference between the CETSCALE scores (t = -3.68, df = 58.69, prob. = .001). It appears that CETSCALE scores following the 9/11 attacks did return to pre-attack levels. As indicated in Figure 1, the CETSCALE scores then increased for a few years, although they did not come close to reaching the spikes present in 1996 or 2001.

CONCLUSION

The larger implications of this study for business strategy is to reinforce in the context of a large Western economy, the U.S., that even though ethnocentrism levels do fluctuate year to year, they are basically stable within a range over longer periods of time. People did, as expected, react strongly to the attacks on 9/11; still, the reactions were very short-lived suggesting that fundamental underlying attitudes were probably unaffected by the event and people needed just a short amount of time to cope and adjust. While the 1996 spike is harder to evaluate in terms of its causes, it also had a very short-term effect that was quickly dissipated. We cannot know without further investigation if fundamental attitudes in other Western developed economies are similarly stable, but it certainly is a reasonable hypothesis to think so. Foreign companies that sell their products in these markets should obviously be aware of the ethnocentrism variable and plan for it. But, the encouraging news for business that comes from this study is that they can count on the stability of attitudes over time as they compete in these markets over the long-term.

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Ruth Lumb, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Jerome C. Kuperman, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Table 1: Overall CETSCALE Score

Year             Mean       Std Dev       Cases

1994            56.043      16.7461         93
1995           50.1212      14.1989         33
1996            91.025      13.9734         40
1997           47.6316      13.6232         38
1998           59.9792      12.5774         48
1999           55.9574      13.2697         47
2000           47.3793      11.9719         58
2001 Spring    56.2692      13.6599         52
2001 Fall         98        10.3971         21
2002 Spring    93.1136      16.8788         44
2002 Fall      47.2195       11.976         41
2003            56.871      14.5275         31
2004            55.641      15.0618         78
2005            69.775      21.7792         40
2006           70.4568      23.2943         81
2007              62        24.0596         52
2008            46.322      17.1056         59
2009           46.7647       21.839         17
2010           57.7097      14.3369         31

Total Cases = 949
Missing Cases = 45 (4.7%)

Table 2: T-test of 2001 data samples pre and post 9/11
for Total CETSCALE Score

                      Number of                  Mean
                        Cases

Group 1                   52                   56.2692
Group 2                   21                   98.0000
                            Pooled Variance Estimate
F Value    2-Tail      T Value       Degrees of      2 Tail
            Prob                      Freedom         Prob
 1.73       182         -12.58           71          . 000

                  Std Deviation          Std Error

Group 1             13.660                 1.894
Group 2             10.397                 2.269
                  Separate Variance Estimate
F Value     T Value       Degrees of    2 Tail Prob
                           Freedom
 1.73        -14.12         48.38           .000
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