What are the effects of forced exposure to the brand website on perceived brand personality? An experiment with random assignment to exposure vs. control (nonexposure) groups for ten websites is analysed. Three covariates are included to test their impact on brand personality after website exposure: product type (utilitarian/ functional vs. auto-expressive), enduring involvement with the produc...

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...

Brands provide a means for consumers to present the self, expressing their inner selves (the ‘real me’), or social (how others see me). With rise in media use, academics and practitioners seek understand how consumers’ self-expression through following brands online leads brand outcomes. This study investigates self-expressiveness of as separate antecedents two outcomes: intention co-create val...

INTRODUCTION Role of marketing in pharmaceutical industry is increasing and inspiration by successful brands known from consumer goods market influenced pharmaceutical companies enough to switch their attention to branding initiatives. Still there is little evidence that pharmaceutical brands represent anything more than product only. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS This study aims to explore the area...

In several studies, the authors examine the potential to leverage a consumer’s moral identity to enhance brand and company identification and promote goodwill through community relations. Studies 1a and 1b show that even when opportunity costs are equivalent (subjectively or economically), consumers who also have a highly self-important moral identity perceive the act of giving time versus mone...

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...

Brand communication through advertising plays an important role in developing strong brands in emerging markets, especially in India. This chapter investigates how ethnocentrism moderates the effects of advertising adaptation levels (globalization, glocalization, and localization) on Indian consumers’ ad evaluation and self-brand congruity. It uses self-brand congruity to explain the psychologi...

This study examines the influence of self-presentation on brand-related word-of-mouth (WOM) and the moderating roles of gender and number of Facebook friends on the relationship between self-presentation and brand-related WOM. Data were collected from Facebook users (N = 400) via an online survey. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that self-presentation is positively related to...