Despite the surge in interest in research on organizational identification, little attention has been paid to investigating the notion of identification in the branding context. Moreover, consumer-brand identification has been conceptualized and opertionalized equally as organizational identification while ignoring both the shortcomings of organizational identification measures and the differen...

This paper investigates the antecedents and the behavior of Lead Users in the Microsoft brand community (MBC). Lead users in the MBC are called Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). The group of MVPs is highly regarded as a very valuable resource within the Microsoft brand community, and their opinion strongly influences innovations in the MBC. MVP activities are center within the Micros...

As sport organizations seek new ways to generate revenue and interact with their fans, brand extensions will continue to be a popular strategy to do so. While research has examined how consumers evaluate brand extensions in sport, little is known as to what impacts a consumer’s decision to purchase team related extensions. This study examined the impact on potential brand extension purchase of ...

This paper provides insight into the brand identity elements co-creation phenomenon and explores the effect of co-creation claim on brand identification. The paper also verifies the moderated effect of product involvement and self-construal. The experimental study and the analysis of variance demonstrate that co-creation claim is confirmed to influence brand identification positively. On the ot...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the attitudinal brand loyalty variables (i.e., cognitive, affective, and conative components), team identification, and customer satisfaction by developing a structural equation model, based on Oliver's (1997) attitudinal brand loyalty model. The results of this study confirmed the study of brand loyalty stages by Oliver (1997)...

A central tenet of most current models of visual-word recognition is that lexical units are activated on the basis of case-invariant abstract letter representations. Here, we examined this assumption by using a unique type of words: brand names. The rationale of the experiments is that brand names are archetypically printed either in lowercase (e.g., adidas) or uppercase (e.g., IKEA). This allo...

The study investigates the impact of brand equity on brand loyalty with the mediation of customer satisfaction in restaurant sector of Lahore, Pakistan. The study uses seven dimensions of brand equity, which include physical quality, staff behavior, ideal selfcongruence, brand identification, life style-congruence, trust and environment. Questionnaire has been used to collect the data from the ...

With the growth and competition of the smartphone industry, developing a better understanding of what drives consumers’ loyalty to smartphone brands has become an important issue for academics and practitioners. This study hypothesizes four determinants of smartphone brand loyalty based on the perspectives of consumer value and consumer-brand identification. Furthermore, this study also explore...