@article{06e6a9cbc43f4d16b8638c50bc6ddb9e,
title = "The Institutional Foundations of Materialism in Western Societies: A Conceptualization and Empirical Test",
author = "Kilbourne, \{William E.\} and Dorsch, \{Michael J.\} and Pierre McDonagh and Bertrand Urien and Andrea Prothero and Marko Gr{\"u}nhagen and Polonsky, \{Michael Jay\} and David Marshall and Janice Foley and Alan Bradshaw and Marko Grunhagen",
note = "Studies of materialism have increased in recent years, and most of these studies examine various aspects of materialism including its individual or social consequences. However, understanding, and possibly shaping, a society's materialistic tendencies requires a more complete study of the relationship between a society's institutional patterns and the acceptance of materialism by its members.",
year = "2009",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0276146709334298",
language = "American English",
volume = "29",
journal = "Journal of Macromarketing",
}