中式服装品牌个性研究

中式服装品牌通过独特设计与丰富的文化内涵被消费者选择,其在产品风格、品牌个性等方面也与消费者建立了某种层次的情感沟通,使其对中式服装品牌产生信赖感和认同感,逐渐形成购买偏好,成为表达"自我"的实现途径之一。文章总结市场上较为畅销的九个中式服装品牌的个性特征词汇,参考相关学者在品牌个性研究方面的相关方法,总结得出中式服装品牌个性特征词汇表,为建立中式服装品牌个性维度量表等后续工作进行了前期的总结和铺垫,也可以为国内中式服装类企业传播品牌个性特征提供参考。     

品牌形象对消费者行为倾向影响的实证研究

本文认为,品牌形象影响并决定着人们的购买和消费行为,独特的品牌形象可以帮助企业确立品牌定位,阻止品牌竞争,改善品牌的市场表现。品牌形象由品牌表现、品牌个性、公司形象三个维度构成,三者不存在层级关系。其中,品牌表现是影响消费者行为倾向的主要因素;品牌个性影响消费者行为倾向,但影响程度较弱;公司形象通过品牌表现和品牌个性间接影响消费者行为倾向,对消费者行为倾向无显著影响。文章提出,企业可以通过三种品牌形象进行品牌定位,即品牌功能属性定位、品牌个性定位、公司形象定位,品牌形象管理即企业进行品牌定位的过程。对于中国企业来讲,品牌个性和公司形象的定位更值得关注。开发独特的品牌形象,建立吸引人的差异化的品牌形象的品牌战略,加强企业品牌形象的推广,是提高顾客忠诚度的根本途径。     

品牌个性、消费者真实自我与品牌态度

基于FCB Grid模型视角,运用实证分析的方法研究品牌个性与消费者真实自我对品牌态度的影响。研究发现,高涉入度/认知型和高涉入度/情感型品牌的品牌个性与真实自我概念一致的群体比不一致的群体具有更高的品牌态度,在此类品牌的塑造上考虑注入品牌个性的五个维度中的"智"和"雅"的个性特征,低涉入度/认知品牌未显示出显著的品牌个性,低涉入度/情感型品牌的一致群体与不一致群体均显示出显著的品牌个性。     

跨国知名汽车产品品牌中文名称再造影响因素及相应策略

本研究首先探讨了几个影响知名汽车品牌中文名称再造的主要因素：如语言文化因素、品牌产品更新挟代、消费者英语水平、企业的全球一体化倾向等。然后．提出了相应的处理策略：（1）原有汽车产品品牌中文名中的语言文化意义若与目标消费者的价值观念、文化审美心理相；中突，原有名最好再造：（2）汽车品牌产品更新换代时，若其市场定位发生本质变化，原有中文名最好再造；（5）目标消费者群体英语水平提高到一定程度．原本采用意译的中文名可重新采用音译与原英语品牌名称同时使用；（4）企业的全球一体化倾向程度越高，原本采用意译的中文名越可能重新采用音译．与原英语品牌名称内涵尽量保持一致．增强消费者对产品品牌形象的一致性感知。最后．提出对跨国经营的中资企业的产品品牌名称处理策略的启示。     

转型期自主品牌管理创新:文化塑造品牌个性

中国汽车市场排名虽然居于世界第一,但不是汽车品牌强国,自主品牌在技术力量较弱的情况下,利用文化的力量塑造品牌个性,是自主品牌突围的一个方向,本文针对自主品牌汽车存在的问题,提出运用传统文化打造品牌个性的观点,提出基于消费者认同进行个性选择。     

基于中国市场的品牌个性研究

品牌个性对于品牌塑造和管理具有重要意义,然而文化的差异会造成品牌个性维度或其表现的不同,西方关于品牌个性的研究结果不宜简单照搬到中国市场中来。而在中国市场环境下,品牌个性的研究到底呈现了哪些特殊之处,这方面的研究和总结尚十分缺乏。本文通过分析总结一系列中国背景的相关的实证研究,发现中国消费者对品牌个性的认知不够细致,因而西方的品牌个性量表在中国市场缺乏普适性;同时对实证研究的横向分析发现,产品类别对品牌个性的维度也有很大影响;此外,除了高价值和象征意义强的产品,一些日常消费品也在中国市场呈现出一定的品牌集中度;"自我概念一致性"理论有很强的普适性,并且这种一致性可以扩展到生活方式、自我个性等范畴。     

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。     

品牌文化与鞋靴产品风格定位

许多消费者在购买鞋靴商品时,总会带有一种对品牌和鞋靴风格的钟爱倾向,他们所钟情的品牌作为一种商品的标志,除了代表商品的质量、性能及独特的市场定位以外,更代表他们自己的价值观、个性、审美修养、品位、格调、生活方式和消费模式,他们对品牌文化及某一产品风格的选择和钟爱不是建立在直接的产品利益上,而是建立在品牌深刻的文化内涵和精神内涵上,因此要使品牌产品赢得消费者的青睐,作为设计师必须能够在品牌文化环境下进行准确的鞋靴产品定位。     

白酒文化建设应与时俱进

我们高喊建设白酒文化的时候，应该时刻清醒：我们每天都在创造历史、创造文化、创造时尚和潮流，而消费者的价值观、消费观也随着不断创新的文化、时尚和潮流而发展。新的历史、新的文化和新的时尚，更接近消费者，更易形成消费者购买的理由。在此基础上建立白酒的品牌文化、营销文化，更有利于凸显品牌个性，有利于消费者的识别和接受，从而形成与时俱进的白酒消费文化。     

跨国知名汽车产品品牌中文名称再造影响园素及相应策略

本研究首先探讨了几个影响知名汽车品牌中文名称再造的主要因素:如语言文化因素、品牌产品更新换代、消费者英语水平、企业的全球一体化倾向等.然后,提出了相应的处理策略:(1)原有汽车产品品牌中文名中的语言文化意义若与目标消费者的价值观念、文化审美心理相冲突,原有名最好再造;(2)汽车品牌产品更新换代时,若其市场定位发生本质变化,原有中文名最好再造;(3)目标消费者群体英语水平提高到一定程度,原本采用意译的中文名可重新采用音译与原英语品牌名称同时使用;(4)企业的全球一体化倾向程度越高,原本采用意译的中文名越可能重新采用音译,与原英语品牌名称内涵尽量保持一致,增强消费者对产品品牌形象的一致性感知.最后,提出对跨国经营的中资企业的产品品牌名称处理策略的启示.     

Moral Recovery and Ethical Leadership

Journal of Business Ethics - Research on ethical leadership generally falls into two categories: one celebrates individual leaders and their ‘authentic’ personalities and virtuous...     

Who Shall Lead Us? How Cultural Values and Ethical Ideologies Guide Young Marketers’ Evaluations of the Transformational Manager–Leader

Today’s young marketers transition from schools and into the workforce with a variety of career options in sales, advertising, and general marketing after graduation. Beyond their discipline-specific knowledge of market research, consumer behavior, and marketing communications, these individuals bring along their own set of personal values and ideologies that may influence how they engage the people, personalities, and priorities of the business organization. As new generations of young professionals enter the publicly scrutinized fields of sales and marketing, they are expected to make morally grounded decisions that may be informed by these values and ideologies. This study frames this state of affairs by examining the inquiry “Who Shall Lead Us?” whereby young marketers evaluate the fitness of a leadership climate in which they would potentially work. Here, individual cultural values and ethical ideologies are posited to influence evaluations of transformational leadership.     

Why we watch others' responses to online advertising – investigating users' motivations for viewing user-generated content in the context of online advertising

The study investigates Internet users' motivations for viewing user-generated content (UGC) in the context of online advertising. In addition, it is examined whether individual motivation patterns can be traced back to users' personalities and their attitudes toward advertising in general. An online survey of 181 social media users was conducted, surveying users' motivation, personality (big five), and attitude toward advertising in general. Path analysis was employed to examine the research model. The use of UGC was motivated by needs for information, entertainment, personal identity, and social interaction. While personality did not predict users' motives, their attitudes towards advertising in general explained individual motivation patterns to a large extent. It was consequently proposed and confirmed that users' motives mediate the influence of recipients' general attitude toward advertising on UGC usage. Results indicated a strong effective potential for UGC in online advertising: users view such content expressly to be influenced by others fulfilling their needs for information, personal identity and social interaction. Firms may lose some of their ability to precisely control brand messages when advertising in social media.     

The effects of mall personality and fashion orientation on shopping value and mall patronage intension

It is imperative for mall operators in China to gain insights into consumer shopping behaviours that will allow them to further develop their mall personalities, in order to better differentiate themselves from the competition. The overarching objective of the present study was two-fold: to increase our understanding about contemporary Chinese shoppers; and to examine the relationships among mall personality, fashion orientation, shopping value and mall patronage intention. This study presents the results of a research survey conducted in Wuhan, China. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS SEM) was used to analyze the survey responses from 324 shopping mall patrons. The findings indicate that consumers' fashion orientation has a significant influence based on their perception of the shopping mall personality. The path model analysis revealed that consumers' perception of shopping value had the strongest effect on their shopping intentions at the mall.     

Building foreign brand personalities in Russia: the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism

Based on a survey of Western brands in Russia, three contributions are offered to the literature on international brand-building. First, the Aaker brand personality scale (Aaker 1997) was tested in a Russian context. Important similarities and differences between Western and Russian brand personality perceptions were identified. Second, the results show that brand personalities of Western brands also have an impact on brand attitudes among Russian consumers. Third, and most importantly, it is demonstrated that the effect of Western brand personalities is heavily moderated by consumer ethnocentrism. Specifically, only low-ethnocentric consumers are influenced by foreign brand personalities.     

The projected destination brand personalities of European capital cities and their positioning

ABSTRACT

Capital cities are significant drivers of visitation to their countries and therefore it is important to understand how the destination brand personalities (DBP) of capital cities are projected and positioned. Hence, the aim of this research is to develop a projected DBP scale for European capital cities, and to investigate their relative positioning. Content analysis of the cities’ main tourism websites was used to develop a projected brand personality scale. This was followed by correspondence analysis to investigate the relative positioning of the city brand personalities. The DBP scale included six dimensions: excitement, malignancy, peacefulness, competence, ruggedness and conservatism. Excitement is the most strongly communicated dimension across all cities, followed by peacefulness and competence. No city rated highly on ruggedness. The correspondence analysis clusters cities into three projected DBP groups: (1) Warsaw and Moscow, (2) Athens, Rome, Madrid, and Berlin, (3) Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna.     

Are we who we follow? Computationally analyzing human personality and brand following on Twitter

Abstract

In this study, we present a computational method for analyzing the congruence between personality of a brand’s Twitter account and the personality of their followers. We investigated attachment to brands on Twitter by computing personalities through a machine-learned computational analysis of Twitter postings rather than traditional personality tests. By studying three different brands, results revealed that on average, brand followers have personalities that are more congruent with the personality of brands they follow compared to users that do not follow those brands. Taking these findings into consideration, we discuss some considerations for advertising researchers and practitioners, as well as provide a new tool, the Brand Analytics Environment (BAE), to allow individuals without computer programming backgrounds to conduct this method themselves.     

Customer brand personality perception: A taxonomic analysis

Abstract

The brand personality concept has received considerable attention. However, researchers have paid little attention to how homogeneous consumer brand personality perceptions are. This study attempts to fill this gap by analysing survey data (n?=?603) collected from respondents evaluating seven mass-market consumer brands. Using cluster analysis, it identifies four typical brand personality constellations. The authors find variance among brand personality perceptions across brands, but more interestingly also within perceptions of individual brands. This result points to issues in implementing brand personalities in marketing practice. The article concludes with theoretical and managerial implications.     

The Effects of Personal and Group Level Factors on the Outcomes of Simulated Auditor and Client Teams

The way that auditor and client teams develop team resources that they can later use in negotiating with their counterparts is a critical but unexplored issue in auditing research. This study examines several important issues that may affect the development of these team resources. Specifically, it uses interacting groups to evaluate the dynamic interplay between personal and perceived group level factors in determining individual team members' satisfaction with the team's solution, and the development of perceptions of team atmosphere.First, a model of the intra-person and intra-team decision processes is introduced. This model posits that individuals' personalities and hierarchical levels influence their choice of conflict style, the development of their perceptions of the team's atmosphere, and ultimately their satisfaction with the solution reached by the team. Conflict style also is posited to affect perceptions of the team's atmosphere and solution satisfaction. We then test the model using structural equation modeling. We also examine the development of consensus within the teams. Students working on their MBA and MS in Business and Accounting at two AACSB-accredited universities participated in this study. The results provide dramatic evidence of the influence of the factors of interest on the resources that each team brings to the ultimate negotiation with its counterpart team.