Emerging Challenges For Brand Management: Anti-consumption And Brand Avoidance

Consumer's Symbol-consumption and Brand Management

As a key driving factor of brand equity, brand image is a research hotspot in the field of consumer behavior and brand marketing. The management over brand image is regarded as a key activity in the field of enterprise marketing. In addition, symbol consumption with the sense of self is another research hotspot in the field of consumer behavior. Brand image management of enterprises is faced wi...

Ideology and brand consumption.

Do mundane daily choices, such as what brands people buy in a supermarket, reflect aspects of values and ideologies? This article presents a large-scale field study performed to determine whether traits associated with a conservative ideology, as measured by voting behavior and religiosity, are manifested in consumers' routine, seemingly inconsequential product choices. Our analysis of market s...

Brand Aesthetics: A New Brand Management Approach

The aesthetic treatment of products and services is emerging as a fundamental competitive element. The notion of “brand aesthetics”, composed of stable and specific elements characterizing its « sensory approach », first introduced by the semiotician Jean-Marie Floch in 1990, can help manage brands in a more rational way. The model of the Brand Aesthetics Chain is introduced to describe the seq...

Commercial brand management

Brand management in higher education: The University Brand Personality Scale

Article history: Received 1 March 2015 Received in revised form 1 November 2015 Accepted 1 December 2015 Available online xxxx Many universities leverage symbolic qualitieswith the potential of creating a brand personality useful in competitive differentiation. Drawing on a series of qualitative and quantitative studies consistent with psychometric scale development procedures, this study devel...