LAMBORGHINI BRAND SHARING AND CIGARETTE ADVERTISING Licensing and brand sharing arrangements, where a fee or royalty is paid for use of a name, is a common strategic consideration to provide a newly introduced product or service with an immediate and proven brand identity (table 1).1 Serving as such an example, Korean Tomorrow and Global (KT&G), which is South Korea’s leading tobacco firm, laun...

The purpose of the paper is to extend self-image congruence research into the corporate sponsorship literature in marketing communications. We do this by developing a conceptual model showing how self-congruity with a sponsorship event affects brand loyalty. The model posits that self-congruity with a sponsorship event has a positive influence on brand loyalty, especially under two conditions: ...

Marketers value and seek brand loyalty. Consequently, they have developed a variety of strategies to encourage both behavioral (repeat purchase) and attitudinal (emotional) loyalty among customers. A recent concept has emerged related to the latter goal: brand engagement. Although marketers give a variety of definitions for brand engagement, the essential concept is an emotional attachment to a...

This paper presents a research model to explicate that the level of consumers’ participation on companies’ brand microblogs is influenced by their brand attachment process. That is, self-congruence and partner quality affect consumers’ trust and commitment toward companies’ brands, which in turn influence participation on brand microblogs. Further, we propose that gender has important moderatin...

To enrich the limited and recent work existing about relational phenomena in the consumer-brand domain, the authors focus on the concept of Brand Trust. The non-existence of a wider accepted measure of this concept is surprising due to the fact that: (1) trust is viewed as the cornerstone and one of the most desired qualities in a relationship and, (2) it is the most important attribute any bra...

Brand loyalty consists of a consumer's commitment to repurchase or otherwise continue using a given brand and is demonstrated by repeated buying of a product or service, or other positive behaviors such as word of mouth advocacy. Standard models of the emergence of brand loyalty consider the behavior of autonomous individuals who are essentially reacting to the objective attributes of the brand...

The authors evaluated emotional avoidance as a mediator of the relation between attachment avoidance (i.e., fear of dependency) and emotional disclosure and rumination as a mediator of the relation between attachment anxiety (i.e., fear of rejection) and emotional disclosure. Two operational definitions were used for each of three variables – emotional avoidance, rumination, and emotional discl...