The Cultural Influence on Mass Customization

This thesis empirically proofs a cultural influence on mass customization ‐ the personalization of mass products towards individual tastes - a topic of increasing importance in today’s international markets. Based on quantitative research, the author obse

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The Cultural Influence on Mass Customization

The Cultural Influence on Mass Customization

Carolin Wabia

The Cultural Influence on Mass Customization

Carolin Wabia Goslar, Germany Dissertation Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, 2019, D 104

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Acknowledgements After a long journey, consisting of academic education in Europe and Asia and intensive years of research on this dissertation, I would like to thank everybody who supported me on my way. Specifically, I thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pfau for his supervision and support and Prof. Dr. Heike Schenk-Mathes for her feedback and review of this thesis. Furthermore, I thank Prof. Dr. Mathias Erlei (†) for his continuous constructive feedback on this research. For intense scientific discussions, I thank the professors and my colleagues from the Institute of Management and Economics at Clausthal University of Technology, especially the Clausthaler Ökonomisches Oberseminar and Oberseminar Unternehmensführung. For their moral support, I thank my friends and family. Especially, I would like to thank my mother Petra and my husband Michael for their encouragement and always being there for me.

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