This study addresses global expansion challenges faced by multinational hotel companies under the backdrop of the booming international travel. Grounded upon theories pertaining to brand equity, this study develops the consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) model for multinational hotel brands, which examines the effects of brand knowledge on consumer response to these brands. The conceptual model ...

Branding on packaging acts as an important cue to guide consumer choice in the retail environment. From a psychological perspective, branding on packaging serves two important purposes, crucial to decision making: 1) It guides consumersʼ attention, drawing attention to certain brands. 2) It allows consumers to recognise and find familiar brands. The purpose of the present study was to investiga...

Different schema-based expectations for competing brands can produce shifting evaluative standards in consumers' relative ratings of these brands. This shift in standards differentially affects objective (number-based) and subjective (word-based) rating scales. Several studies support the proposition that a brand rated as objectively inferior to another can be subjectively perceived as equivale...

T his article examines cross-price promotional effects in a dynamic context. Among other things, we investigate whether previously established findings hold when consumer and competitive dynamics are taken into account. Five main influential effects (asymmetric price effect, neighborhood price effect, asymmetric share effect, neighborhood share effect, and private label versus national brand as...

Purpose – The paper seeks to explore empirically the lived experience of trust in consumer brands and to develop a model focusing on functional and symbolic brands. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an exploratory, grounded theory approach and the study conducted in-depth interviews. Findings – The findings reveal that when consumers are facing buying choices of functional brands...

This article extends the literature on cross-country cultural influences on consumer behavior by exploring the influence that physiological and biological factors may have on consumer preferences across countries. As the specific case studied, the authors explore the relationship between average male penile length in a country and consumer preference for prestige brands in the country. Data fro...

This study investigates the influence of brand information on consumer preferences by conducting an experiment testing whether the preferences of Chinese consumers towards four chocolate brands change when they are informed about the brands from the case when they are blind about the brands. The results suggest that brand information does influence Chinese consumers’ preferences for chocolate. ...

In light of the alarming climate change situation, focus society on sustainability has been enhanced. The recent initiatives at national and international levels to significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions transition carbon-neutrality have highlighted urgency. For a more sustainably oriented society, an important shift is needed; hence, we need invest in creating knowledge about importance ...