A short bio:
Marieke de Mooij Ph.D. (Netherlands), Doctor in Communications, is a retired professor of international advertising at the University of Navarre (Spain), a
consultant in cross cultural communications, and has been visiting professor at various
universities around the world. She is the author of several
publications on the influence of culture on marketing and advertising and communications. Her book
Global Marketing and Advertising, Understanding Cultural Paradoxes
(fourth edition, 2013),
Sage Publications (USA and UK) is used by practitioners and universities worldwide.
A more specialized book is Consumer Behavior and Culture. Consequences for Global
Marketing and Advertising (second edition, 2011), Sage Publications (USA and UK). A book on communication theory around the world is published by Springer International (2014): Human and Mediated Communication around the World. A Comprehensive Review and Analysis.
My research and consultancy work focuses on the influence of culture on communication, consumer behavior and advertising.
Consumers worldwide are not the same, and the differences in consumer behavior between
countries increase with greater wealth. With increased wealth cultural values become manifest. These values are
reflected in consumption, in communication and media usage. In many domains of life consumer behavior across cultures is
diverging instead of converging.
Because all aspects of consumer behavior are culture-bound,
and not subject merely to environmental factors but integrated in all of human behavior,
there is an increased need to identify and understand this integration and its impact
on global marketing and advertising.
This website offers information on my publications. To professors who use the fourth edition
of Global Marketing and Advertising or the second edition of Consumer Behavior and Culture as required text, Sage Publications has opened a companion website with teaching materials:
the original TV commercials and color print ads, used as illustrations in
the book, power point presentations and other teaching aids. Information requests or
suggestions by users of my books are welcome (see address below).
