联合品牌战略研究

本文首先介绍了联合品牌的定义,然后描述了联合品牌在美国的发展状况和联合品牌发展的全球化趋势。随后论述了联合品牌和客户感知的关系,指出联合品牌战略必须建立在客户感知的基础之上。然后从七个方面详细阐述了联合品牌对参与的独立品牌的作用,从而得出企业使用联合品牌的直接目的。接着提出了一种分析联合品牌的方法,以用于选择合作伙伴及分析竞争对手的联合品牌战略,并结合案例分析了联合品牌的使用目的、使用过程和结果,最后指出联合品牌战略成功的潜在规则。     

品牌联合理论综述

品牌联合是近几年兴起的一种全新的商业战略,为企业提升自身的品牌价值提供了一条有效的途径。在众多的商业领域,品牌联合已经为不少大型的跨国公司所采用。与日益增多的品牌联合实践相比,对品牌联合的理论研究却还处在初级阶段。本文首次对品牌联合的相关理论进行了综述。首先对品牌联合的相关概念进行述评,再对品牌联合的类型进行评述,最后对品牌联合的作用和风险等问题进行述评。本文的目的在于帮助加深对品牌联合战略的理解,为将来品牌联合实践和理论的发展做出一点贡献。     

品牌联合研究：综述与构想

品牌联合作为一种提升品牌资产的有效手段在实业界已经得到广泛应用,在西方学术界也已经研究多年.然而,我国学术界对品牌联合的关注才刚刚开始.全面梳理与总结西方学者有关品牌联合的研究成果,不仅能够指导我国企业的品牌联合实践,同时能够为我国品牌联合的后续研究构建理论基础.文章将从品牌联合及其模式、品牌联合效应及其衡量、品牌联合效应影响因素这几方面对国外现有研究成果进行梳理与评述,在此基础上,对品牌联合的未来研究提出我们的构想.     

品牌联合的消费者评价研究综述

随着品牌联合实践的发展,品牌联合的消费者评价也成为较为前沿的课题之一。在梳理品牌联合相关研究的基础上,总结了影响消费者对品牌联合评价的因素,并提出了进一步研究值得关注的方向,以期推动国内品牌联合相关研究的进展。     

联合匹配性对联合品牌评价的影响研究

大量研究表明联合匹配性是影响品牌联合效应最为关键的因素,然而联合匹配性究竟如何影响联合品牌评价却少有研究涉及。文章从Keller的品牌联想模型出发,通过剖析联合匹配性的基本内涵,构建了联合匹配性二维结构,通过实验研究法检验了联合匹配性的维度结构及其对联合品牌评价的影响。结果表明,联合匹配性主要体现在产品功能互补和品牌形象一致二维度,联合匹配性的二维度均对联合品牌评价有着积极影响,但二维度对联合品牌评价影响的方式和结果有所不同。     

品牌联合效应对企业品牌忠诚度的影响

本文的主要研究目的是关注品牌的联合效应,在社会经济高速发展如今,面对激烈的市场竞争和需求多变的顾客,企业应该采取有效的措施提升顾客的忠诚度.品牌联合是提升品牌资产的一种有效手段,研究表明,通过加大品牌的联合提高顾客的信任、产品和服务质量、转移成本及顾客的满意度的方法可有效提高顾客的忠诚度.并且从品牌关系视角,探索性分析了品牌关系对品牌联合匹配性与品牌联合效应关系的调节性影响；在此基础上,构建了品牌关系对品牌联合匹配性与品牌联合效应关系的调节效应模型.     

品牌跨界联合效应评价的影响因素研究——以互联网约租车平台为例

跨界已经成为当前国际上新的潮流和发展趋势,同时也是一个企业或者品牌长久发展的必然要求。数十年来随着品牌跨界联合理论不断深入发展,如今从一线品牌到平价商品,运用品牌跨界联合策略的现象已经比比皆是。新时期,在"互联网+"的推动下,品牌跨界联合策略又有了新的发展,其中互联网约租车平台进行跨界营销早已屡见不鲜,以滴滴出行为首。这些在企业或者品牌运用品牌跨界联合策略时,也面临着盲目选择跨界合作品牌等问题。因此,文章在借鉴品牌联合理论的基础上,提出了品牌跨界联合效应评价模型,并最终得到了:(1)消费者的预先态度以及联合匹配度正向影响品牌跨界联合效应评价,其中联合匹配度在消费者的预先态度以及品牌跨界联合效应评价起中介作用;(2)消费者感知到的市场匹配度正向影响品牌匹配度等结论,对互联网约租车平台在实施品牌跨界联合策略时提供了一定的参考依据。     

品牌联合营销探讨

品牌联合营销作为现代营销新趋势,日渐受到企业的关注。本文在分析了品牌联合营销概念后,着重探讨了品牌联合营销给企业带来的收益以及品牌联合营销成功关键点的把握。     

品牌联合的前置因素和溢出效应分析

由两个品牌结合形成一个新的品牌是品牌联盟的最紧密形式(本文称为品牌联合),它将给企业带来战略上和营运上的利益;同时,品牌联合还具有对合作品牌产生正面和负面影响的溢出效应;不是任何两个品牌都可以进行品牌联合,品牌联合至少需要合作双方的品牌匹配和产品匹配的前置条件.     

1+1=?一项有关品牌联合效应的探索性研究

品牌联合作为提升品牌资产的一种有效手段,在国外已得到广泛验证。然而,我国与西方的消费环境不尽相同,品牌联合能否带来同样的市场效应尚待检验。采用焦点小组访谈的方法,对真实存在的不知名品牌与知名品牌联合进行探索性研究,结果表明:(1)不知名与知名品牌联合效应的获取难于知名品牌之间的联合;(2)不知名与知名品牌的联合对联合品牌的品牌认知、感知质量、品牌联想和购买意愿均有不同程度的提升作用,但难以改善其品牌信任;(3)参与联合的不知名品牌和知名品牌均可从中获益;(4)受广告宣传策略、合作品牌知名度、合作品牌之间的匹配性以及联合品牌价格等多方面因素的影响,品牌联合效应分别会出现1+1>1、1+1=1和1+1<1等三种情形。     

Consumer evaluation of brand alliance signals

A consistent finding in brand‐alliance research is that a well‐known, reputable brand ally improves consumers' evaluation of an unknown brand. The authors contribute to this research by examining the effects of a brand ally at different levels of cognitive elaboration and message argument strength. Results suggest that the brand ally serves as an endorser of the primary brand in two key ways. When cognitive elaboration is low and the ad contains strong arguments, the ally serves as an endorser. On the other hand, the presence of a reputable ally is an information cue when cognitive elaboration is high and the ad contains weak arguments. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Building Brands through Brand Alliances: Does a Second Ally Help?

Several papers have been published demonstrating the positive effects a single, reputable ally has on evaluations of a focal brand. Interestingly, little research has been published examining the effects of multiple brand allies. We examine the effect of an alliance with two, one, or zero well-known brand allies on evaluations of a previously unknown focal brand. The presence of a single brand ally significantly increased perceived quality and hedonic and utilitarian attitudes. While multiple alliances improved focal brand evaluations relative to the no ally condition, the second ally did not increase evaluations relative to the single ally condition.     

Priming a Cross‐Category Brand Alliance: The Moderating Role of Attribute Knowledge and Need for Cognition

Firms often enter cross‐category advertising brand alliance strategies with the goal to increase their market share by association with popular but noncompeting brand allies. However, firms are often not aware of the effects of these alliances on consumer perceptions of participating brands. This research explores the factors moderating brand attribute inferences following exposure to a cross‐category advertising brand alliance. It is proposed that attributes of a brand ally may serve as anchors that produce assimilation effects and move perceptions of a target brand toward the ally's attribute value, or as standards of comparison that produce contrast. This work provides evidence that attribute judgments in a cross‐category advertising brand alliance are moderated by attribute knowledge and individual differences in information processing motivation as reflected in self‐reported need for cognition (NFC) ratings.     

How does a Brand Ally Affect Consumer Evaluations of a Focal Brand?

Published research has shown that an alliance with a well‐known, reputable brand can improve quality perceptions of a previously unknown focal brand. Much of this research is based on signaling theory's bonding hypothesis. However, customers face information search costs when evaluating brands with which they may be unfamiliar. The authors contend that, since consumers are self‐interested, they will prefer to realize cost savings for themselves relative to a future conditional opportunity to punish a false signal sender. Three studies show that the effect of brand ally information on quality perceptions of an unfamiliar brand is mediated by perceived risk reduction due to lower information search costs.     

Interacting with strategic waiting for store brand: Online selling format selection

This paper studies the interaction of online selling format selection with store brand introduction following national brand in the presence of strategic consumers. We find that platform under reselling format prefers the high pricing strategy for national brand while the manufacturer under agency selling format prefers the low pricing strategy. Moreover, highly strategic consumers discourage the platform from introducing the store brand and manufacturer from being the end-seller of national brand. Specifically, when consumers are less strategic, the platform tends to introduce a store brand with similar quality to national brand under reselling format, and a store brand with different quality to national brand under agency selling format. The manufacturer prefers agency selling format when consumers are less strategic; otherwise, reselling format is preferred. The platform and manufacturer can achieve a “win-win” result under agency selling with store brand when consumers are less strategic. However, the reselling format enables the manufacturer to deter the platform from introducing the store brand if the platform raises the accessing fee. We further extend to consider a store brand with quality better than the national brand and show above results remain valid.     

A typology of brand alliances and consumer awareness of brand alliance integration

Brand alliances, which involve intentionally presenting two or more brands together, appear in many different forms. For example, Subway stores placed within Wal-Mart, Airbus A380 airplanes with Rolls-Royce Trent engines, and Nike + iPod co-developed personal trainers are among the more well-known manifestations of this strategy. Our study contributes to the literature on brand alliances by conceptualizing and measuring a typology of brand alliance types based on their degree of integration. We also empirically test and find that consumers are sensitive to varying degrees of brand alliance integration. We then link these findings to the managerial decision of how and with whom a brand should form an alliance. We use extensive examples, conversations with managers, and survey-based experiments to show that brand alliance integration is relevant and impactful to both managers and consumers.     

The Vigor of a Disregarded Ally in Sponsorship: Brand Image Transfer Effects Arising from a Cosponsor

Typically, brands vie for image transfer from an event or other property when entering a sponsorship engagement. Yet, this practice leaves a valuable part of a sponsorship alliance unexploited. This study addresses a new opportunity for brand collaboration that may arise from the vigor of a disregarded ally. Specifically, the authors infer from congruity theory and associative learning theory to propose a research model that advocates the idea of a sponsor to also gain from brand attitude and personality traits innately tied to a cosponsor paired with the same event. Structural equation and, respectively, path model testing provide evidence for direct transfer of attitudes as well as for carryover of personality traits between two sponsor brands. These transfer effects turn out to be moderated by perceived fit between the sponsor brands’ images and by familiarity with the target sponsor brand. Brand managers may want to bring these findings to bear in sponsorship policy design and execution by purposefully choosing with whom they share a perimeter billboard or any other sponsorship signage. Such a deliberate approach stands in contrast to current sponsorship practice where agents tend to disregard linked cosponsors and, instead, fortuitously yield up to their fate.     

赣南脐橙农产品区域品牌提升策略

区域农产品之间的竟争归根结底是品牌之间的竟争,故构建农产品区域品牌迫在眉睫。农产品区域品牌体现了一个地区农业经济和农业产业化的发展程度,对区域经济的持续发展和农民增收具有重要的现实意义。江西赣州素有"世界橙乡"之称,是全世界最大的脐橙主产区。本文就以江西赣南脐橙为例,详细阐述了赣南脐橙的现状及其所具有品牌特征,以SWOT为分析方法,分析其优势、劣势、机会与威胁,并提出强化提升其区域品牌的策略,旨在提高赣南脐橙区域品牌的竞争力。     

Does Sex Sell in a Chinese Society

Sexual appeal was once was regarded as panacea in advertising. Research findings in western countries regarding sexu- ally explicit advertising generally have divergent views-positive and negative advertising effects. Published findings indicate advertise- ments that employ sex appeals are attention-getting and result in better brand recall, while on the contrary, these advertisements are viewed as offensive and creating negative attitudes and behavioural intentions. The use of sex in advertising is a complex issue. The gender of the model, the gender of the receivers, the product adver- tised, the culture background of the market etc. will have an impact on the effectiveness of advertising. The present study focuses on the relationship between sexually explicit advertisements in Hong Kong and the advertising effectiveness, in the form of recall, attitude and purchase intention.     

What makes a brand manager effective?

Brands have become increasingly important as a foundation for competitive strategy. Unfortunately, although brand managers are responsible for brand strategy development and execution, little is known about what makes a brand manager effective. A model is developed to understand what intangible capital embodied by brand managers influences brand management capabilities and resultant brand performance. Measures of brand manager intangible capital and brand management capabilities are developed through an iterative scale development process. Hypothesis testing, derived from a survey of brand managers, indicates that brand manager human, relational and informational capital influences brand management capabilities and resultant brand performance, and brand manager intangible capital has an indirect effect on brand performance via brand management capabilities. By delineating and operationalizing the intangible capital and capabilities of brand managers, this study provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for future research on brand managers, tools for assessing current brand manager capital and capabilities, and guidance in relation to intangible capital and capabilities needed by brand managers.