Introduction
The marketing literature mostly conceptualizes consumer resistance as a microlevel phenomenon, focusing on individual characteristics, dispositions to resist, and actions against the market (Penaloza & Price, 1993; Roux, 2007; Valor, Diaz, & Merino, 2017). The literature thus restricts the study of consumer resistance to the individual straitjacket that hinders marketing from grasping the institutional determinants and outcomes of resistance behaviors. In line with cultural explanations of consumption, consumers are embedded in social and cultural contexts that shape and dictate their behaviors (Chaney & Ben Slimane, 2014). Although previous literature has helped to understand consumers' motivations to resist, we argue...