As economic challenges and pressures for businesses mount, marketing teams are faced with major decisions. While widespread consumer anxiety results in dwindling businesses, marketing budget allocations are hit by cutbacks and marketers face the challenge of better market performance in a restrained economy. Investments and organizational objectives have been reframed. While retention of market...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the nature of the inter-relationships among brand equity dimensions in the fast fashion context. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical data collected from 419 fast fashion consumers in the USA, the study investigated the inter-relationships among the various brand equity dimensions by structural equation modeling. Findings – Th...

Purpose – Children are bombarded by branded communication every day. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that particular linguistic devices play in communication, and whether this process differs between children and adults. One such device is phonetic symbolism, which has been shown to lead adults to prefer brand names whose phonetic attributes match product and/or brand featu...

The brand extension literature outlines a pivotal role of consumers’ brand extension attitudes in explaining change in parent brand equity. However, there remains little understanding of how such feedback effects actually materialize on parent brand equity. The present study proposes and examines change in relationship equity as a mediator of the effect of brand extension attitude on change in ...

This article provides a new, C-OAR-SE-based, contrastive measure that distinguishes “brand love” from “brand liking.” The new measure is tested in an empirical study conducted among German university students about brands of products that they buy in four diverse product categories. From a consumer perspective, the incidence of consumers who have a loved brand in the category was found to be on...

Online purchasing is a booming business and is studied extensively in marketing and information systems research. Online product reviews are one factor that influence a consumer’s purchasing behavior and attitudes. Brand equity is a popular phenomenon that influences purchasing behaviors and attitudes of consumers. We seek to answer two questions in this research. First, do online consumer revi...

IS post-adoption behavior has received significant attention in prior studies. Evidence suggests that a set of factors entice individuals’ continuance usage toward an information technology product. However traditional models of IT continuance usage generally do not account for product-level factors (e.g. brand influence) and mainly focus on predicting technology-level behavioral intention, and...

What is the role that colour plays in perception of a brand by customers? How can we explore the cognitive role that colour plays in determining brand perception? To answer these questions we propose a preference disaggregation method based on multi-criteria decision aid. We identify the criteria aggregation model that underlies the global preference of a brandwith respect to each brand image a...

Due to sheer volume of advertising stimuli and increasingly sophisticated consumer demands it’s not sufficient enough for marketers to build up a unique image of their brand. Even more they have to create a character behind their brand – a brand personality. Although the concept of brand personality is quite popular for existing brands across cultures the aim of this study is to address the res...

The purpose of this paper investigates the effect of perceived value on customer loyalty through brand image and customer satisfaction in a lowpriced cosmetic brand, as well as to examine the moderating role of gender. The results showed that perceived value positively affects brand image and customer satisfaction. Brand image positively influences customer loyalty but does not influence custom...