在线品牌社群对消费者溢价购买意愿的影响研究

本文以在线品牌社群为研究对象,通过探讨在线品牌社群的价值维度与品牌认同,证实在线品牌社群对消费者溢价购买意愿的影响。对496个有效样本的实证分析发现,在线品牌社群的信息价值、财务价值和形象价值能有效提高消费者的品牌认同,品牌认同对溢价购买意愿有正向影响。通过进一步考察品牌认同的中介效应,证实在线品牌社群价值对溢价购买意愿的影响是通过品牌认同产生作用。     

在线品牌社群成员参与程度对其社群认同的影响——产品类型和品牌熟悉度的调节

文章根据互动和非互动划分社群成员参与程度的高低，通过两个实验探究了在不同产品类型和品牌熟悉度的情境下，在线品牌社群成员参与程度对其社群认同的影响差异。研究发现：对于搜索品，社群参与程度较低时，其社群认同更强；对于体验品，社群参与程度较高时，其社群认同更强。另外，对于低熟悉度品牌，产品类型的调节作用仍然存在。但对于高熟悉度品牌，无论是搜索品还是体验品，社群参与程度较高时，其社群认同更强。最后，文章为企业在线品牌社群管理提出了营销建议。     

变革前消极非正式信息对员工的影响机制研究

组织变革前会有相关的非正式信息,这些信息影响员工对变革的认识。文章探索变革前消极非正式信息量对员工变革抵制意愿的影响,以及员工变革抵制意愿随时间推移的变化,信息频率与尽责性对员工变革抵制意愿变化的调节作用。基于159位员工调查数据的多层次线性增长模型分析表明：消极非正式信息量显著增加员工的变革抵制意愿,但这种抵制意愿随时间推移而显著衰减;消极非正式信息频率与尽责性对员工变革抵制意愿随时间衰减有三维调节作用：在低信息频率下,低尽责性员工的变革抵制意愿随时间衰减更快。研究结果对组织变革有一定理论和实践意义。     

在线品牌社群投入对品牌忠诚的影响——消费者品牌投入的中介效应检验

互联网背景下,在线品牌社群在连接品牌和消费者中起着重要作用,因此,有必要研究在线品牌社群如何影响消费者与品牌的关系。基于自我知觉理论和承诺一致性原则的理论视角,以问卷调查方法收集数据,探讨在线品牌社群投入是否会通过反作用促进消费者品牌投入进而提升品牌忠诚。通过实证研究,得出以下结论:(1)在线品牌社群投入对品牌忠诚没有显著的直接作用;(2)但是除消费者品牌投入的认知维度外,在其他两个维度(情感投入和行为投入)的中介作用下,在线品牌社群投入对品牌忠诚有显著作用;(3)在线品牌社群投入对消费者品牌投入具有显著的积极影响,验证了自我知觉理论和承诺一致性原则在在线品牌社群情境下的适用性。研究结论深化了在线品牌社群投入对品牌忠诚影响的研究。     

在线品牌社群成员关系对顾客创新行为的影响:创新自我效能的调节作用

产品创新不仅来自企业内部,还来自外部顾客。其中,在线品牌社群被认为是产品创新信息收集的一种重要渠道。基于知识分享——个体创新理论,通过实证方法,研究品牌社群成员关系对顾客创新行为的影响,在二者的关系中,顾客创新自我效能起调节作用。结果表明,当社群成员之间沟通频繁且关系密切,知识、信息的交流、传播等越多,顾客越能够创造出新的知识;并且,当顾客的自我效能越高,这种正向关系效果更明显。     

提供者对共享经济平台信任的影响因素分析——以二手平台闲鱼为例

以二手平台闲鱼为例，从提供者视角出发，建立基于变量协方差矩阵的结构方程模型，就提供者对共享经济平台信任的影响因素进行实证研究。研究发现，平台的在线评论、售后服务、制度保障都显著正向影响提供者对闲鱼平台的信任，而政府支持对提供者的信任影响并不显著；需方信誉、提供者使用经验均显著正向影响服务提供者对需方的信任，而双方的互动程度对提供者的信任影响不显著；并且提供者对需方的信任会显著正向影响其分享意愿，但对平台的信任不会显著的影响其分享意愿。因此，共享经济平台需严格控制需方的参与信誉，提高提供者的参与意愿，丰富提供者的自身使用经验，来增强提供者的提供意愿。     

在线品牌社群社会资本对消费者品牌幸福感的影响机制研究

文章从社会资本的视角，探讨在线品牌社群对消费者品牌幸福感的影响机制。基于680份有效问卷，运用偏最小二乘法对假设进行检验。研究结果表明：在线品牌社群社会资本会通过促进社群幸福感（社群主观幸福感、社群心理幸福感和社群社会幸福感）进而促进品牌幸福感；在社群幸福感内部，社群社会幸福感会促进社群心理幸福感，而二者都会促进社群主观幸福感；在线品牌社群访问频率在社群主观幸福感与品牌幸福感之间起到正向调节作用。研究结论丰富了在线品牌社群和品牌幸福感理论，且对品牌建设实践具有指导价值。     

在线品牌社群成员关系如何促进品牌忠诚——基于强弱连带整合的视角

文章从强弱连带整合的视角,探讨在线品牌社群成员强关系和弱关系数量对品牌忠诚的促进机制。借鉴社会资源理论的研究框架,基于品牌社群相关理论,本文提出了研究假设,并采用偏最小二乘法进行实证检验。结果显示：弱关系数量不会增强品牌社群信息价值和社群社交价值;强关系数量则对两种社群价值都有促进作用;品牌社群信息价值只能促进持续性社群承诺,而品牌社群社交价值会促进持续性社群承诺、情感性社群承诺和规范性社群承诺;情感性社群承诺和持续性社群承诺都会促进品牌忠诚,规范性社群承诺则不能。研究结论从连带强度的视角丰富了品牌社群理论,同时对在线品牌社群建设具有指导意义。     

在线品牌社区成员心理所有权对品牌承诺的影响

社群成员在企业的在线品牌社区建设过程中发挥着重要的作用。该研究将心理所有权作为前置变量,探讨其在在线品牌社区环境下对社群成员品牌承诺的影响。本文首先对心理所有权和品牌承诺的理论研究进行了回顾,总结了在线品牌社区成员心理所有权和品牌承诺的研究现状;通过对心理所有权和品牌承诺关系的梳理,得出在线品牌社区环境下成员心理所有权对品牌承诺的影响机制;最后讨论了研究的管理意义、存在的局限和未来研究方向。     

在线品牌社群对企业双元创新的影响路径——资源、组织与领导的三维组态分析

在线品牌社群是企业创新的重要外部协同主体，其创新协同路径有待深入揭示。文章基于双元创新角度，运用QCA研究方法，通过294份有效问卷数据，研究了在线品牌社群的资源特质、组织结构、领导角色的组态效应对企业探索式和利用式双元创新的影响路径。研究发现：(1)在线品牌社群的自组织结构是探索式创新与利用式创新共有的必要条件；(2)探索式创新通过领导资源型和组织领导型两条等效影响路径发生作用；(3)利用式创新通过资源组织型与资源领导型两条等效影响路径发生作用。研究结论有助于拓展企业外部创新来源，从在线品牌社群的角度为两类创新范式找到差异化的影响路径，为社群运营提供策略支持。     

Leveraging consumer personality and social media marketing to improve a brand's social media equity

Consumer personality traits impact consumer actions, preferences, online behaviour and shopping motives. This study examines personality traits as drivers of social media equity by addressing the mechanisms under which consumer personality traits influence social media equity. We aim to combine consumer-level information with brand-level metrics to advance our understanding of consumers' associations with brands on social media and how specific consumer personality traits can be leveraged to improve a brand's social media equity. Using a self-administered survey, a total of 418 respondents from an online consumer panel participated in this study. The results from structural equation modelling revealed that while extraversion, openness to experience and neuroticism personality traits are positively associated with brand engagement and brand advocacy, agreeableness and conscientiousness are significantly associated with brand advocacy and not with brand engagement. This study advances theory by examining how consumer personality traits influence social media equity via brand engagement and brand advocacy as mediators. The findings provide rich practical insights into underlying mechanisms through which marketers can increase social media equity using consumer personality traits.     

Store-evoked affect, personalities, and consumer emotional attachments to brands

This research examines how store-evoked affect, human personality, and brand personality influence consumers' emotional attachments to brands. A field study (in wine tasting rooms) demonstrates that satisfaction mediates the effects of store-evoked pleasure and arousal on brand attachments, which further affects brand loyalty and willingness to pay a price premium. Attachment is consistently stronger in positive affective environments (i.e., when pleasure, arousal, and satisfaction are high) and when the brand possesses positive dimensions of brand personality. These effects are stronger for consumers scoring high (rather than low) on extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness and weaker for individuals scoring high on neuroticism. A follow-up experiment (in juice bars) supports the findings of the field study and provides further insight into the three-way interaction between store-evoked affect, brand personality, and consumer personality.     

The Impacts of Consumer Personality Traits on Online Video Ads Sharing Intention

Abstract

Despite the increasing importance of advertisement sharing, research on the characteristics of people sharing advertisements with others is limited. This study examines the impacts of personality traits on online video advertising sharing intention (OVASI). The results show that extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience among big-five personality traits have positive impacts on OVASI. Particularly, the effect of extraversion on OVASI was positive and the largest among personality traits. Implications of the findings, as well as suggestions for further research, are discussed.     

Brand hate and non-repurchase intention: A service context perspective in a cross-channel setting

The purpose of this study is to investigate the brand hate phenomenon for service products in a cross-channel setting (offline/online environment). To reach this objective, structural equation modeling was employed on a sample of 265 consumers. Findings reveal that brand hate positively influences offline negative word-of-mouth (NWOM), online complaining, and non-repurchase intention. Furthermore, while offline NWOM has a positive effect on non-repurchase intention, online complaining has a negative one. Finally, a mediated path was identified, which starts from brand hate and ends with non-repurchase intention through online complaining and offline NWOM. The study provides implications for firms’ marketers and practitioners.     

Antecedents of participation in online brand communities and their purchasing behavior consequences

This study intends to fill some gaps in knowledge about online communities and their influence on consumers’ purchase decisions. A review of the extant literature on online brand communities reveals that most prior studies have focused on identifying the factors associated with joining and participating in online communities. However, limited studies examine the implications of participation in online brand communities in terms of consumer behaviors, such as brand liking and intention to purchase the brand. In addition, these few studies have either focused on the influence of operational elements of the online community on purchase intention or on the influence of community members’ characteristics regarding purchase intention. Therefore, this study aims to provide an integrated framework for operational and user characteristics’ antecedents associated with consumers’ participation in online brand communities and their effect on purchase decisions. Structural equation modeling was used to test the conceptual model. Data were collected via a survey of the Facebook pages of 282 members of Egyptian telecommunication companies. The findings provide insights into how these antecedents should be managed to enhance participation in virtual telecommunication communities.     

Influence of consumer attitude toward online brand community on revisit intention and brand trust

This study proposes to illustrate the relationships between perceived benefits in using online brand communities, attitudes, revisit intention, and brand trust, and it also assesses the moderating role of two types of online brand communities: marketer- and consumer-created communities. The research model is tested by regression analysis using a random sample of 242 respondents. The study finds that social and informational benefits have positive impacts on attitude, which, in turn, significantly influence revisit intention and brand trust. The moderating effect of the type of online community was significant in predicting the relationship between attitude and brand trust but not between attitude and revisit intention. The study concludes the importance of managing online brand communities through managerial implications.     

Celebrity Scandal Fallout: How Attribution Style Can Protect the Sponsor

An attribution is an inference about why an event occurred or about a person's disposition or other psychological state. This study is designed to examine the effects of consumers’ attribution styles (i.e., dispositional and situational) and moderating role of celebrity identification and brand commitment in the evaluation of negative information about a celebrity endorser. The study finds that people who make dispositional attributions judge the endorsed brand more negatively than do those who make situational attributions. The findings also suggest that consumers with a higher level of identification with the celebrity are less likely to react negatively to the bad publicity. Finally, the study found that, when faced with a celebrity scandal, people with high brand commitment showed more favorable attitudes toward the brand as well as higher purchase intention than those with low brand commitment.     

The effect of negative online customer reviews on brand equity and purchase intention of consumer electronics in South Africa

This study investigated the effect that negative online customer reviews have on brand equity and purchase intention. This research examined the influence of negative electronic word of mouth (eWOM) on brand equity, as influenced by customer review quality, product involvement and source credibility. A 3 (high quality review versus low quality review versus no review) × 2 (high product involvement versus low product involvement) factorial experiment with 236 respondents was conducted. The results revealed that the presence of negative eWOM has a significant detrimental effect on brand equity and purchase intention. Furthermore, the effect of negative online customer reviews is more detrimental to the brand equity of a high involvement product than a low involvement product. The results also revealed that high quality reviews are more influential than low quality reviews with respect to brand equity, and the difference between the levels of eWOM source credibility has no significant effect on brand equity.     

The differential roles of brand credibility and brand prestige in consumer brand choice

This study explores how brand credibility and brand prestige affect brand purchase intention and empirically investigates how the combinatory mechanism of brand credibility and brand prestige materialize across multiple product categories. The proposed model of six latent constructs is tested with structural equation modeling analysis: brand credibility, brand prestige, perceived quality, information costs saved, perceived risk, and brand purchase intention. The results suggest that both brand credibility and brand prestige positively influence brand purchase intention through perceived quality, information costs saved, and perceived risk under different product categories representing the high and low self‐expressive nature. Several implications for advertising messages and brand positioning strategies are discussed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The role of customer online brand experience in customers' intention to forward online company-generated content: The case of the Islamic online banking sector in Palestine

The purpose of this study is twofold: Firstly, to assess the impact of customer online brand experience (COBE) with online banking on customer's intention to forward online company-generated content (CGC). Secondly, to explore the role of online brand community engagement (OBCE) and the perceived trust of brand community page (BCP) as mediating variables between COBE and the intention to forward online CGC. This research conducted an online survey among various Islamic bank customers in Palestine who were members of online brand communities (fan pages) on Facebook. 375 valid responses were collected and results revealed that COBE exerts a dual influence on intention to forward CGC. This study is a pioneering empirical research on the role of OBCE in customers' intention to forward online CGC within the fast-growing Islamic banking industry. This study contributes to fill this research gap by assessing the effect of COBE on OBCE and intention to forward online CGC within the context of the Islamic online banking sector in Palestine. In this sense, this study is a first-of-its-kind research on the role of experience on customer engagement with regard to online brand communities of Islamic banks.