品牌声誉影响消费者品牌依赖的机制研究:品牌关系利益的中介效应

用品牌依赖替代品牌忠诚,通过检验品牌关系利益的中介效应与消费者心理特质(社会归属感)的调节效应,分析品牌声誉影响消费者品牌依赖的过程机制,结果表明:品牌声誉正向影响消费者品牌依赖;品牌关系利益中信任利益与情感利益两个维度在品牌声誉对消费者品牌依赖的影响中起部分中介作用,且两个维度的中介作用存在差异性;消费者心理特质(社会归属感)在品牌声誉影响消费者感知品牌关系利益和形成品牌依赖的过程中不存在显著的直接影响.     

消费者怀旧情感对品牌忠诚的影响

每个消费者都或多或少存在怀旧情感,企业很早就开始利用消费者的怀旧需求开展怀旧营销。消费者品牌关系是品牌忠诚的重要影响因素,而消费者怀旧水平对品牌信任与依恋有一定的影响,品牌信任和依恋对品牌承诺有很大的促进作用,品牌承诺是品牌忠诚的核心驱动因素。由此可见,消费者的怀旧情感可以通过品牌关系的中介而作用于品牌忠诚,企业可以通过开发各种营销策略,为消费者提供怀旧体验的平台,从而提高消费者的品牌忠诚度。     

品牌信任、顾客满意及关系承诺

基于消费者认知与情感层面,可从消费者与品牌的互动关系入手,将品牌信任划分为转移信任、经验信任两种类型。数据分析表明,对品牌信任的这种新划分存在于消费者与品牌的交互过程之中,不仅具有合理性,而且具有深远的理论意义。数据拟合分析结果表明,转移信任对顾客满意的直接作用非常明显,转移信任能够引起顾客满意,同时顾客满意对经验信任的作用也非常强,顾客满意能够导致经验信任。关系承诺与顾客满意度及经验信任之间存在因果关系,但也会受到其他因素影响,因此即使消费者对品牌产品满意或获得了经验上的信任,也不一定会长期使用或推荐某个品牌的产品。鉴于此,为更好地建立、发展并保持消费者与企业间的长期关系,改善品牌管理方面存在的不足,企业要适时调整营销战略与策略。一要重视消费者转移信任的建立,关注实质的产品质量与服务,关注顾客需求,为顾客解决消费过程中出现的问题,通过建立企业品牌信任,提高顾客满意度;二要培养具备专业知识的业务人员,为消费者提供准确而有价值的产品信息,赢得消费者信任,强化企业与消费者之间的关系,维持企业与顾客之间的长久关系;三要选择有效的途径进行品牌传播,举办吸引消费者参与的活动等,从建立品牌信任开始进行新产品、新品牌的市场开拓。     

基于品牌联合的食品品牌信任提升研究

面对近年来国内外频发的食品安全事件所引发的食品品牌信任危机,如何有效提升食品品牌的消费者信任或使一个不知名的食品品牌获得消费者的信任,是目前业界普遍关心的问题。已有研究表明,产品信息对食品品牌信任的影响明显,但对相关问题缺乏系统深入研究。文章在借鉴前人研究成果的基础上,进一步界定食品品牌信任的内涵,开创性地以品牌联合为增加品牌信息之手段,构建以增加品牌信息为核心的食品品牌信任提升机制模型,以实施不同形式品牌联合的不知名食品品牌为研究刺激物,通过比较不同联合模式下食品品牌信任的变化,系统研究食品产品的品牌信任影响机制,以探寻食品品牌信任的提升机制、手段与方法。     

购物网站品牌资产及其形成机制实证研究

本文认为,购物网站品牌资产是消费者头脑中购物网站品牌知识导致的消费者对网站营销产生的差异化反应。文章从国情出发构建基于消费者视角的购物网站品牌资产模型并进行实证研究。研究认为,网站认知、网站品牌形象(感知质量、网站体验)、网站信任和网站忠诚是购物网站品牌资产的构成要素,它们之间不是并列的关系,而是有次序的因果关系。网站认知是网站品牌资产的基础,感知质量和网站体验可构成网站品牌形象而导致消费者对网站的信任,进而影响网站忠诚。建立消费者忠诚是购物网站的关键,网络企业可以通过提高网站知名度、产品和服务质量以及在网站设计方面增加网络购物的愉快体验来建立消费者对网站的信任,提高网站忠诚度。     

满意情景下的消费者后悔对口传的影响研究

后悔是消费者在消费体验之后将购买品牌同放弃的品牌进行比较所得到的负面情感反应,它对于消费者的再购意愿有着重要的影响。本文在验证了消费者可以同时体验满意和后悔这一结论的基础上,进一步研究并证实了后悔不仅会增加对购买品牌的负面口传,而且会增加对放弃品牌的正面口传。在此过程中,消费者同购买品牌的关系质量起到了显著的调节作用。     

品牌认知对消费者购买行为的影响

通过提出一个概念模型,探讨品牌知识和品牌关系如何影响消费者当前购买行为和未来购买行为。研究结果表明品牌认知(包括品牌知名度和品牌形象)直接影响消费者的当前购买行为,但是不直接影响未来的购买行为;品牌认知通过品牌关系(包括品牌满意度、品牌信任和情感)影响消费者的未来购买行为,并从产品质量、服务理念、品牌形象和消费感受四个方面提出对策建议。     

品牌原产地困惑对于消费者喜爱与购买本土品牌和境外品牌的影响

以消费者行为理论和品牌原产地效应的研究文献为基础，通过对调查数据进行统计分析，本文提出与检验了品牌原产地困惑对于中国消费者喜爱与购买本土品牌和境外品牌的影响作用。结论如下：第一，在中国现有环境下，消费者越是误认为一个本土品牌是境外品牌，就倾向于越喜欢这个品牌；越是误认为一个境外品牌是本土品牌，就倾向于越不喜欢这个品牌。第二，本土品牌知名度对于本土品牌原产地困惑和消费者喜好本土品牌之间的正相关关系有负向的调节作用；不过，境外品牌知名度的调节作用则不明显。第三，品牌原产地困惑对于中国消费者购买本土品牌有负向影响，对中国消费者购买境外品牌则无显著影响。     

品牌仪式研究述评与展望

品牌仪式是激发消费者联想和情感的关键,是品牌联结消费者的重要纽带,也是品牌管理研究领域的新兴视角之一。学术界就品牌仪式已取得不少有价值的研究成果。为了更好地推动和增强品牌仪式理论研究进展和管理实践成效,对品牌仪式的概念、品牌仪式与相似概念的差异、品牌仪式的形成路径以及后效进行述评,并对未来研究进行展望,指出了三个方向：明确品牌仪式概念,开发更有效的测量工具;探究品牌仪式对信息传播的影响机制;开展品牌仪式线上线下对比研究。     

论品牌关系生命周期中消费者品牌信任与心理契约的建立

企业之间的竞争,集中体现为品牌统治权的争夺,实质是对消费者的争夺。只有与消费者建立长期持久的关系,才能取得竞争的先机。而信任是长期关系的基础,是关系营销取得成功的关键,与心理契约存在正相关关系。系统梳理、借鉴有关品牌信任和心理契约研究成果,并从理论上论证了品牌关系生命周期中消费者品牌信任与心理契约建立的横向动态关系与纵向互动关系同时存在,它们共同形成了消费者品牌信任与心理契约建立的动态整合模型。     

Impact of Food Brand Controversy on Consumers’ Attitude Toward Brand and Company

It is critical to understand the impact of controversy on the consumer. There is a scarcity of research measuring post-controversy consumer attitude on both product and corporate brand during a controversy. The study is based on a recent brand controversy linked with instant noodle brand “Maggi” in India. The study examines impact on brand perceived quality, credibility, trust and loyalty, and attitude about brand and company. Data have been collected during July–October 2015 when the brand Maggi was banned in India due to quality-related controversy. Results indicate that respondents, with higher post-controversy brand loyalty, hold positive attitudes about brand. The interaction effect reveals that the relationship is significant and positive. During controversy, consumers’ attitude about brand and company is not identical. For a strong brand, consumers may have positive attitude but they become quite negative about company.     

You are charging your friend a fee? The influence of brand relationship norms on consumer judgments

Prior research has found that consumer interpersonal relationship norms influence how consumers view marketing actions by a brand. Exchange relationships (e.g. payment for benefit received) and communal relationships (e.g. altruistic concern for a partner’s welfare) were studied. Violating relationship norms negatively affected consumer judgments. We replicate and extend this finding. We show general support for the proposed interaction across a range of dependent measures, manipulations and with an Australian sample. We also show that the negative effects of norm transgression by charging consumers a fee can be attenuated when the fee is modest and that exchange participants can also regard fees as violations of relationship norms.     

Interactivity,Inspiration, and Perceived Usefulness! How retailers’ AR-apps improve consumer engagement through flow

This study investigates the antecedents and outcomes of consumer engagement through AR apps and suggests a new conceptual model. The purpose of the paper is to examine how consumer engagement is shaped via AR apps, which eventually leads to a positive attitude towards brand and brand usage intent. To this end, a face-to-face survey instrument was administered to 350 participants in Turkey, where participants tried an AR app and then answered a questionnaire. The structural equation modeling (SEM) and Hayes' Process analyses were applied to test the hypotheses and moderated mediation relationships. Findings showed that interactivity and inspiration are two major antecedents of consumers' flow experience. The flow experience with AR can generate favorable attitudes towards AR apps and more trust in AR apps, which trigger consumer engagement with AR apps and then improve brand attitude and brand usage intent. The outcomes of flow experience with AR (i.e., attitude and trust) mediate the relationship between flow and engagement. Although perceived usefulness increases the effect of consumers' attitudes towards AR on engagement, it has no moderating effect on the relationship between trust in AR and engagement. Furthermore, the results of Hayes' Process revealed that the indirect effect of flow on consumers’ engagement with AR through attitude towards AR is moderated by perceived usefulness. So that, if AR marketers aim to strengthen the link between consumer flow experience and engagement via attitudes towards AR, they should therefore consider enhancing the perceived usefulness of AR. Surprisingly, perceived usefulness had no moderating effect on the indirect relationship between flow and engagement via trust. Finally, this paper discusses both the theoretical and managerial implications.     

Consumers' Trust in a Brand and the Link to Brand Loyalty

Brands are important in the consumer market. They are the interface between consumers and the company, and consumers may develop loyalty to brands. This study proposes that trust in a brand is important and is a key factor in the development of brand loyalty. Factors hypothesized to influence trust in a brand include a number of brand characteristics, company characteristics and consumer-brand characteristics. Respondents representing a broad spectrum of Singapore consumers were surveyed. The findings reveal that brand characteristics are relatively more important in their effects on a consumer's trust in a brand. The results also show that trust in a brand is positively related to brand loyalty. Marketers should, therefore, take careful consideration of brand factors in the development of trust in a brand.     

Brand trust and engagement in social commerce

With the surge in social media (SM) users around the world, the scope of social commerce (SC) in brand engagement is a prominent area of discussion. The present study empirically investigates the effect of social commerce construct (SCC), multi-dimensional constructs of social presence theory (SPT) and consumer generated content (CGC) on brand trust and brand engagement in SC platforms. An online survey was conducted among 625 Indian consumers who had made more than one purchase using SC platforms in the previous 6 months. Structural equation modelling technique was employed for testing the hypotheses and conceptual model. The results suggest that each element of SCC, SPT and CGC positively contributes to brand trust and engagement. Further, the study provides insight into brand trust and brand engagement in SM, which prompts brand usage intention of the consumers. The insights can be used by managers to create long-term customer relationship management action plans that emphasize brand trust and engagement.     

品牌社群对顾客价值感知和创新的影响研究

近年来,品牌社群作为消费者群体性虚拟组织迅猛发展,为我们解读顾客价值提供了重要途径。文章认为,品牌社群的特征影响着顾客价值感知和顾客价值创新。通过实证分析可知,品牌社群技术性及品牌社群参与性等对顾客价值感知有正向影响,品牌社群共同意识、道德责任感及品牌社群技术性对顾客价值创新有正向影响。品牌社群运营者可以通过提高品牌社群技术性、促进成员的共同意识、道德责任感和参与性等方面做出行动,以促使成员更好地感知焦点品牌的顾客价值并且参与价值创新,品牌企业也可以通过关注和引导品牌社群的发展增强企业的竞争力。     

Brand experience and consumers' social interactive engagement with brand page: An integrated-marketing perspective

As consumers increasingly go online to communicate about brands, brand marketers have been utilizing a popular platform to interact with them and create brand communities, namely a brand page. Prior studies have examined factors that promote the success of a brand page by narrowing focusing on only two influencing factors of engagement with the brand page: individual consumer characteristics and brand page features. Taking an integrated marketing perspective, this study extends that research by examining a broad range of influencing factors affecting engagement with brand page, such as sensory, affective, intellectual, and behavioural brand experiences. Building upon the fundamental motive framework, we demonstrate that brand experience enhances consumers' motivation to participate, socialize, and perceive benefits from others involved within the brand page regardless of individual propensity to socialize online. Furthermore, as consumers are engaged in social interaction within a brand page, they are more likely to be involved in positive WOM about the brand. The theoretical and practical contributions of our study are further discussed, along with suggestions for future research in this important and growing field.     

Relationship type,perceived trust,and ambiguity aversion

Ambiguity averse suggests consumers to prefer risky options over ambiguous ones. In this study, the authors propose that consumer–brand relationship types influence consumers’ ambiguity aversion. Specifically, compared with consumers in exchange relationships with the focal brand, consumers in communal relationships are more likely to trust the focal brand and thereby be less averse to ambiguity. These proposals were tested in two experiments. In experiment 1, participants in communal relationships showed less ambiguity aversion than those in exchange relationships. In experiment 2, participants in communal relationships had higher perceived trust with the focal brand than the participants in exchange relationships, and they showed less dislike for tensile promotions. Experiment 2 also tested for and confirmed the mediating effect of perceived trust. This study concludes with a discussion of the theoretical contributions and practical implications of the results.