While mental associations between a brand and its marketing elements are an important part of brand equity, previous research has yet to provide a sound methodology to measure the strength of these links. The following studies present the development and validation of an implicit measure to assess the strength of mental representations of brand elements in the mind of the consumer. The measure ...

This research examines whether various forms of brand associations—overall brand beliefs (e.g., Sony is high quality) versus exemplars of the brand (e.g., Sony TV)—are differentially accessible for individuals with independent self-views and those with an interdependent self-view. Since independents emphasize the “traitedness” of behavior and tend to focus on attributes of objects, brand belief...

Brand Management is a process of planning, implementing and monitoring brand strategies that enhances the successful marketing of products or services. The evaluation of brand extension strategy can be done under two broad categories Evaluation of Existing Brand Extensions and Evaluation of Prospective Brand Extensions. The paper deals with the dependent and independent variables that could be ...

Brand competitiveness is a basis for long-term survival of an enterprise. It can bring long-term interests for enterprise. The academic research on brand competitiveness mainly focuses on the concept of brand competitiveness, the formation mechanism and evaluation indicators, and these are all achieved some results. On the basis of previous studies, from the view of a consumer, authors try to a...

The present paper focus on ITC notebook and try to understand consumer social responsibility for  cause related brand and how their preference level changes with different firm donations, and how this activity leads to brand loyalty in long run. An experimental design with 693 participants was used. The results shows that consumers like cause related marketing campaigns and ready to do extra ef...

This research aims at analyzing and investigation of role of brand and guerrilla marketing in keeping and increasing purchasing portfolio of customer in Iran’s SME and in this respect three hypothesizes are developed. For doing of this research after exploration of models and approaches in brand questionnaire and guerrilla marketing were used for customers of company. The conceptual model based...

This paper introduces the perspective of a brand as a perpetual firm asset. From this perpetuity perspective, brand equity is defined as the financial value that a firm derives from customer response to the marketing of a brand. Rooted in this perpetuity perspective, brand perpetual value is developed as a financial measure of brand equity, where brand perpetual value is calculated as the value...

There is an ongoing debate over the activities of brands and companies in social media. Some researchers believe social media provide a unique opportunity for brands to foster their relationships with customers, while others believe the contrary. Taking the perspective of the brand community building plus the brand trust and loyalty literatures, our goal is to show how brand communities based o...

Recognised the importance of design impressions, design scholars noticed that there are some trends among the brands awareness on consumer atti‐ tudes toward their designs outcomes include products and services. More and more customer services were developed for enhancing the relationships with consumers through social networks, integrated mobile and location-based tech‐ nologies. Some scholars...

This paper aims to explore how socialand self-factors may affect consumers’ brand loyalty while they follow companies’ microblogs. Drawing upon the commitment-trust theory, social influence theory, and self-congruence theory, we propose that network externalities, social norms, and self-congruence are the key determinants in the research model. The impacts of these factors on brand loyalty will...