Consumer Resilience in Inflationary Markets in the Digital Age
Chapter from the book: Yolcu, T. (ed.) 2025. Marketing Dynamics in the Digital Age: Platforms, Ecosystems, and Innovation.

Yavuz Selim Gülmez
Mardin Artuklu University

Synopsis

This chapter examines how inflationary pressures reshape consumer resilience within contemporary digital market dynamics, positioning inflation not merely as a macroeconomic condition but as a critical force transforming consumer behavior, decision-making, and well-being. In the digital age, consumers experience inflation through platform-mediated interactions, algorithmic pricing, continuous price comparisons, and digitally circulated market information, which intensify visibility, cognitive effort, and perceived risk in everyday consumption. Adopting a consumer well-being–oriented marketing perspective, the chapter conceptualizes consumer resilience not as an individual coping trait but as a market-shaped capacity emerging at the intersection of digital infrastructures, social relations, and institutional practices. The analysis highlights how inflation-driven market dynamics disproportionately affect vulnerable consumer groups while simultaneously redistributing responsibility, effort, and emotional labor onto consumers. By identifying digital, community-based, and institutional mechanisms that can support resilience beyond individual adaptation, the chapter contributes to marketing scholarship by reframing consumer resilience as a systemic outcome embedded in digital market structures. In doing so, it advances a more human-centered and ethically informed understanding of marketing dynamics in inflationary digital markets.

How to cite this book

Gülmez, Y. S. (2025). Consumer Resilience in Inflationary Markets in the Digital Age. In: Yolcu, T. (ed.), Marketing Dynamics in the Digital Age: Platforms, Ecosystems, and Innovation. Özgür Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58830/ozgur.pub1133.c4666

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December 30, 2025

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