The relationship between store image and store brand equity: A conceptual framework and evidence from hypermarkets

Retailers are making considerable efforts to improve their brand management. The challenge they face, however, is how best to integrate coherently their stores, as brands, and their various distributor brands (store brands, private labels, etc.), in order to increase their brand equity and offer the market differential value that will stimulate customer loyalty. From this perspective, it is crucial for retailers to investigate the relationship between the store and their own brands. This study proposes two theoretical models showing the mechanism whereby store image helps increase the equity of a specific type of distributor brand (the store brand). The approach used in this analysis is based, on the one hand, on defining brand equity through its components, using the model in Aaker (1991), and on the other, on including (social and strategic) corporate dimensions in measuring store image. The empirical research made in the hypermarket sector in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa backs the majority of the proposed hypotheses. The results show that store image can be used by retailers to influence all components of store brand equity, essentially through its commercial and strategic dimension. This research is intended to address the clear lack of research on store brand equity.     

品牌联合场景下联合匹配性感知形成研究

已有文献表明联合匹配性是影响品牌联合效应的关键因素,本文认为在品牌联合场景下消费者对合伙品牌间匹配性感知由合伙品牌间形象相似性程度决定。通过实验研究法检验了联合匹配性形成过程及其影响因素,并引入营销传播变量探析形象突出性维度对联合匹配性感知形成的影响。结果表明联合匹配性感知形成受到联合品牌间形象相似性维度的显著影响;有无广告提示的存在,形象突出性维度对联合匹配性感知形成的影响并不显著。     

基于物流网络的企业品牌营销发展模式研究

本文试图在物流网络视角下构建企业品牌营销发展模式,通过建立一个多主体博弈模型,描述企业、政府、消费者三方主体的行为激励,以及求解最佳行为均衡策略,提出企业品牌营销发展模式中各经济主体应采取哪些有效措施,以促进由企业为主导的微观经济主体结合物流网络发展品牌营销,实现企业、政府、消费者三方共赢。     

Country-of-origin effects and antecedents of industrial brand equity

Does the country-of-origin effect matter to industrial brand equity in international business-to-business (B2B) markets? The effect of a product's country-of-origin (COO) on both industrial buyers' and consumers' perceptions and evaluations has been one of the most widely studied phenomena in the fields of international business, marketing, and consumer behavior since the 1960s. Although many country-of-origin studies focus on consumer behavior in developed countries and acknowledge that the processes and stages of economic development by which consumers use COO information may differ in developing countries, the fact that there has been little research to investigate the effects of COO could explain the variations in international buyers' evaluations of industrial brand equity in the newly-industrialized economies, such as Taiwan. Taiwanese firms are now formidable global B2B market players by successfully transforming themselves from manufacturing mainly low-value and labor-intensive goods to producing many high value-added products that require advanced technology, equipment and significant business expertise. With the adoption of advanced technology and equipment, an important question is whether unique and innovative fastener products from Taiwan have generated the country-of-origin effects in international B2B buyers' minds. The main finding is that the country-of-origin of fasteners has not yet become an important antecedent of industrial brand equity in the case of the fastener industry in Taiwan.     

Fostering international brand loyalty through committed and attached relationships

The relationship-building approach, focused on the building of brand-to-consumer relationships conducive to brand loyalty formation, has become an extensively investigated topic in international brand management studies. However, the theoretical development of this approach manifests obvious diversities, causing managerial uncertainty about how to take appropriate strategic actions to put the relationship-building approach to best use. The current study, orchestrating the main concepts derived from three relationship-building paradigms with necessary adaptations and modifications, develops and validates the Relationship-Building for Strategic Brand Management Model. Its most noteworthy contribution lies in the coalescence of pragmatic utilitarianism, emotionalism and social symbolism, orienting the relationship-building approach to correspond to the principle of holistic consumer experience management. As explicated by the model, committed and attached relationships built upon the relationship foundation mirroring the holistic essentiality of holistic consumer experience are convertible into powerful driver of international brand loyalty. The model structure and causal path pattern prove to be applicable to different international product brand categories in different regions. Strategic implications are deduced from the research findings, which the international brand manager may take into consideration to maximize the effectiveness of relationship-building strategies for fostering brand loyalty in the international market.     

广告、品牌壁垒与消费者选择

传统产业经济学研究的进入壁垒一般是基于厂商在生产领域内的非对称优势壁垒,如规模经济、产品差异化等;或制度性壁垒,如政策、法律等。但是,在供给过剩的条件下,生产领域中的非对称优势会被迅速模仿并最终失去壁垒作用,而基于消费者选择行为的品牌机制,将会成为一种新的壁垒形式,即品牌壁垒。对于品牌壁垒的形成途径,本文从广告形成品牌壁垒的线索出发进行了理论评述,进一步的,我们证明产品转化为商品的过程也存在着成本,而由选择成本决定的品牌机制,可以提高产品转化率,在厂商内部实现转化效率,从而获得非对称优势。在商品过剩及消费者选择的条件下,由品牌构筑起的进入壁垒对于防止新进入者的进入显得更为持久更为有效,同时这也将成为厂商竞争最重要的壁垒形式之一。     

基于CAS理论的企业并购后的品牌整合

企业并购后的品牌整合是在复杂多变的环境中进行的,品牌整合系统是一个复杂适应系统．CAS理论为企业并购后的品牌整合提供了新视角和方法论的指导。     

品牌竞争提升制造业能级的路径探究

随着越来越多的国际品牌登陆中国,国内本土制造业品牌是逐渐被兼并,还是收购其他企业壮大实力谋求更大的发展,已成为一个很现实的问题.制造业企业可以通过塑造品牌竞争力,提升制造创新能力、促进制造品牌规模优势发展,实现制造企业向现代企业制度转型,打造具有地域特色的区域制造业品牌和国际品牌,从而提升制造业能级.根据品牌竞争和制造...     

连锁品牌空间定位模型及经济分析

本文通过建立引入连锁品牌空间定位系数、价格、选择成本的需求函数,并以此模型解释了连锁品牌空间定位的决策是通过空间定位系数和品牌信用度共同作用而实现的。同时对连锁品牌空间定位问题分为同一连锁品牌不同商圈、同一连锁品牌同一商圈、不同连锁品牌同一商圈这三种情况进行了解释分析,并对一些现实进行了论证。在理论分析的基础上,本文提出了连锁品牌空间定位的空间定位系数—品牌信用度二维模型,并分别从选择高空间定位系数商圈和提高品牌信用度建设方面为现实中的连锁品牌提供了相应的策略。     

品牌体验、信任与满意

本文探讨了消费者品牌体验对消费者品牌满意的影响,同时探讨了消费者品牌体验各维度之间的关系。品牌信任在消费者品牌体验对消费者品牌满意的影响中起中介作用。本文采用了结构方程模型。建议企业多增加品牌体验的措施以增加消费者的品牌体验,从而提升消费者对品牌的满意度。