This study explores the relationship among brand equity, brand relationship and repurchase behaviors. The study uses brand equity as an independent variable to investigate the relationship between brand relationships and repurchase behaviors, taking the consumers of the top three chain store supermarkets in Taiwan as the objects of empirical analysis. The major findings of this study include: c...

The nested logit model has been widely used to study nested choice. A typical example of such nested choice is store patronage and brand choice. An important limitation of the nested logit model is that it assumes that all alternatives at both levels of the nest are available in the choice set of the consumer. While there is a wide literature on the incorporation of restricted choice sets into ...

The objectives of the research project described in this paper are (1) to develop reliable and valid measures for the components of online store image, and (2) to examine the influence of these components on the intention to purchase online. Conceptually, the project relies on the relatively established literature on “traditional” store image and the emerging electronic commerce literature seek...

This paper addresses one issue that has been somewhat neglected in the marketing literature. Namely, whether basic marketing relationships at the establishment level are robust to major changes in the macroeconomic environment where they operate. What allows us to address this issue is a combination of two factors: passage of a law liberalizing retail gas prices in Spain and the availability of...

The objectives of the research project described in this paper are (1) to develop reliable and valid measures for the components of online store image, and (2) to examine the influence of these components on the intention to purchase online. Conceptually, the project relies on the relatively established literature on “traditional” store image and the emerging electronic commerce literature seek...

This study investigates the manner in which corporate philanthropy affects consumer patronage toward a brand. In so doing, we propose reciprocity as a key mechanism, which manifests the effect of corporate philanthropy on patronage behavior, and examine how vicarious licensing and strategic fit would mitigate the relationship between reciprocity and patronage behavior. The results indicate that...