Aleksandra Burgiel- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Economics in Katowice
Aleksandra Burgiel
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at University of Economics in Katowice
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Introduction
My current research interests include sustainable consumption and consumer behaviors; changes in consumer behaviors and lifestyles resulting from the COVID-19 spread.
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Publications (10)
Digital subscription services have become an ubiquitous presence in various sectors, including entertainment, news, music, gaming, and software. Despite their growing significance and impact, particularly within leisure and hobby areas, the problem of user acceptance of these services has not yet received a comprehensive explanation. To address thi...
Mass vaccination is widely considered the predominant cure for the COVID-19 Pandemic. The appearance of considerable vaccine hesitancy has led to social debate between vaccinated majorities and unvaccinated minorities in Europe. We investigate the differences between these polarized groups in two neighboring countries, i.e. Germany and Poland, by a...
People tend to perceive value of their attributes and objects they possess in relative terms, i.e. based on social comparisons. These comparisons shape consumers’ behavior as well as their aspirations, lifestyle, self-esteem and happiness. The aim of the paper was to establish the role of social comparisons in shaping consumers’ behavior and to ide...
The paper presents survey results regarding adoption of selected consumer trends (i.e. prosumption, collaborative consumption, non-ownership consumption, showrooming, and collective intelligence use and creation) by members of generations X and Y. We analyze and compare the frequency of certain behaviors representing the aforementioned trends and m...
Voluntary simplicity (VS) fits well the category of sustainable consumption because to its principles include: creating economically sustainable future, shaping balanced relationships between humans as well as building and maintaining close ties to the nature. Therefore the first aim of this article is to characterize VS as a lifestyle that constit...
The purpose of this article is to present specific character of so called ‘sensitive research’ on the example of studies on consumers’ emulatory behaviour, since we argue here that for respondents an imitation represents a sensitive topic. The paper is aimed at presenting particular methodological difficulties encountered in such studies and at dis...
