☆ The authors gratefully acknowledge financial sup Science Foundation of China (08CTQ008), the National China (70832001, 70902017), the Shanghai Pujiang Ta Competitive Research Grant from Hong Kong Polytech authors thank two anonymous reviewers and the gue Megehee, for their insightful comments on content acknowledge the revision suggestions by Alison Lloyd version of this article. ⁎ Correspond...

brand strength is a variable with the wide scope of definition that can survey marketing strategy and customers' perceptions.in this article, the strength of 23 brands of household appliances in guilan market have been evaluated by using bav models and with receiving customers' opinion from questionnaire. the result indicated that as a whole,foreign brands are stronger than iranian br...

Social media-based expert blogs are a crucial and credible online information source for consumers, yet little is known about the role of expert blogs for general consumer brand perceptions that bestow long-term value for the firm. On the basis of a novel dataset with 7,871 brand-day observations of over 131,000 expert blogs on major brands in the PC industry, this study reveals how expert blog...

Storytelling is a well known and ancient art form. Fascinating and compelling characters have animated literature around the world from the beginning of the written word. Today, scientific research has laid the foundations for a sound empirical understanding of storytelling as a clear aid to memory, as a means of making sense of the world, as a way to make and strengthen emotional connections, ...

despite possessing the adequate purchase potential for the fast moving consumer goods (fmcgs), the poor are not reckoned as a viable market by the fmcg marketers and as a result, the purchase preferences of poor are largely unexplored for the concerned products. the present paper bridges the gap subsisting in the pertinent literature by exploring the purchase behavior of poor consumers in the r...

Despite possessing the adequate purchase potential for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs), the poor are not reckoned as a viable market by the FMCG marketers and as a result, the purchase preferences of poor are largely unexplored for the concerned products. The present paper bridges the gap subsisting in the pertinent literature by exploring the purchase behavior of poor consumers in the r...

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In their provocative and influential book The Distribution Trap, Thomas and Wilkinson (2010) contend that firms that develop differentiated products would be better served to avoid what the authors call mega-retailers or Megas: big-box retailers such as Target and Walmart and category killers such as Home Depot, Lowe’s and Best Buy. As an alternative, the authors recommend that firms either fin...

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