Advertising standardisation in culturally similar markets: can we standardise all components?

A framework for standardisation of ad content based on cultural and socio-economic similarity among countries is proposed.

Advertising standardisation in culturally similar markets: can we standardise all components?

Kiran KarandeOld Dominion University, Virginia, USA

Khalid A. Almurshidee and Fahad Al-OlayanQassim University, Saudi Arabia

INTRODUCTION

Cross-cultural differences in advertising content (e.g. Abernethy & Franke 1996) and the issue of standardisation of ad content (Mueller 1987; Duncan & Ramaprasad 1995; Laroche et al. 2001) have been widely researched. From a business's perspective, standardisation becomes attractive for markets that exhibit cultural, political and socio-economic similarity, and helps create a common image (e.g. Duncan & Ramaprasad 1995; Laroche et al. 2001). Extant cross-cultural...

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