1 Couple’s Narratives of Shared-Self, Possessions and Consumption Experiences Phoebe Wong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Margaret K. Hogg, Lancaster University Markus Vanharanta, University College Dublin Primary Contact Person: Phoebe Wong, PhD PolyU West Kowloon Campus 12/F, North Tower Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong Tel: +852-3746-0072 Fax: +852-2363-0540 Email: spphoebe@speed-polyu.edu.hk Phoebe Wong is a Lecturer in Marketing and Public Relations at the School of Professional Education and Executive Development, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She gained her PhD from Lancaster University. She read General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, followed by postgraduate studies in Marketing at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her work has appeared in refereed journals including the Journal of Marketing Management, Industrial Marketing Management, the International Journal of Higher Education Research, and Public Administration and Policy in Asia-Pacific Journal and Higher Education. Margaret K. Hogg is a Professor of Consumer Research and Marketing at Lancaster University. Before joining LUMS in 2004, she was a Reader in Consumer Behaviour at Manchester School of Management, UMIST. She read Politics and Modern History at Edinburgh University, followed by postgraduate studies in history at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and then by an MA in Business Analysis at Lancaster University. Her work has appeared in refereed journals including the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management and the European Journal of Marketing. She is a co-author of the fourth edition of “Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective” (Pearson 2010). Markus Vanharanta is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at University College Dublin, based in Singapore. His primary research interests are managerial expertise, the dark-side of marketing, price-fixing conspiracies and intuitive decision-making. Markus draws his main influences from the theories related to Naturalistic Decision Making, industrial networks and critical realism. After obtaining his PhD from Lancaster University, Markus stayed at Lancaster first as a Post-Doctoral Fellow before becoming a lecturer in the Department of Marketing.