品牌社群的形成机理与传播策略研究——以花间堂花粉品鉴团为例

品牌社群的成形为传播文化品牌、维护品牌忠诚度提供了全新的视野。本文通过对国内外品牌社群相关研究进行梳理,从社群关系、动机等内外部因素探讨品牌社群形成机理,并根据花间堂"花粉品鉴团"为例验证形成机理的实用性。     

品牌社群价值对品牌信任的影响作用研究

品牌社群是当今西方品牌理论研究的新前沿,品牌社群营销成功的关键在于运用品牌社群来创造消费者的品牌信任。本文在系统论述品牌社群价值和品牌信任结构维度的基础上,建立品牌社群价值与品牌信任之间的作用机理模型,通过顾客体验作为中介变量来理解品牌社群价值与品牌信任之间的关系。最后,本文提出了研究结论,并指出了研究局限性和未来展望。     

在线品牌社群公民行为的维度研究

如同在正式组织里面一样,人们在在线品牌社群当中也会表现出组织公民行为。然而,由于二者的差异,传统的组织公民行为维度并不能简单照搬到在线品牌社群当中。基于现有的组织公民行为维度文献,本文提取直接受益对象和直接行为动机两个视角,据此归纳出在线品牌社群公民行为的四个维度:社群援助、社群参与、社群忠诚、社群维护。四个维度通过了探索性和验证性因子分析的实证检验,具有信度和效度。研究结论为今后相关研究提供维度测量工具,并对品牌社群管理实践提供指导。     

基于品牌社群的创新型企业品牌忠诚度研究

一些有远见的创新型企业品牌经营者,在实践中已经验证,通过品牌社群提高消费者忠诚度的方法行之有效。本文借鉴相关理论,作出以下假设:品牌经营者通过开展社群活动使消费者和消费者、消费者和产品之间互动,而互动使得消费者产生感官愉悦、精神愉悦和重构体验等社群体验,在消费者在得到了良好的品牌社群的体验的同时,进而提高了消费者对于品牌的忠诚度。本文实证分析是通过收集问卷并通过SPSS软件对之前假设进行验证和修正。最后,就如何通过品牌社群提高创新型企业品牌忠诚度提出了相应的政策建议。     

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。     

社交媒体时代下虚拟品牌社群形成机制分析

品牌社群是近几年来品牌管理领域的重要研究课题,随着社交媒体时代的来临,虚拟品牌社群随之兴起,然而,目前学术界缺乏对虚拟品牌社群形成机制的研究。本文以社交媒体的核心—互动为出发点,结合象征互动论和社会认同理论,讨论了形成虚拟品牌社群的相关要素的内涵和维度,深入剖析了虚拟品牌社群的形成机理,从而从系统上建立了一个完整的虚拟品牌社群形成的理论模型。研究表明:虚拟品牌社群形成机制包括三个阶段:第一阶段是品牌互动形成品牌利益、品牌体验以及品牌象征;第二阶段是品牌利益、品牌体验和品牌象征形成品牌依恋;最后一个阶段是品牌依恋形成虚拟品牌社群意识,标志着虚拟品牌社群的形成。对虚拟品牌社群形成机制进行研究能够为企业构建虚拟品牌社群提供理论上的指导。     

品牌社群融入度对品牌忠诚影响的实证研究

本文旨在以“君乐美”品牌为例,实证研究消费者由品牌体验加入并形成消费者感知的品牌社群、进而产生品牌忠诚的心理过程中,品牌社群及品牌忠诚的影响方式和影响效应.     

品牌社群形成机理模型初探

品牌社群是当前西方品牌理论研究的新课题,现有文献在诠释品牌社群形成问题上尚存在不足。本文以顾客让渡价值、顾客满意度、顾客忠诚度作为理论基础,提出一个品牌社群形成机理模型,用以描述顾客加入和支持品牌社群的过程,该模型对品牌社群经营有着重要的营销启示,文章最后指出了本研究局限性及今后研究方向。     

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。     

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。     

Social media influencers: A route to brand engagement for their followers

Social Media Influencers (SMIs) are micro‐celebrities with large followings on social media platforms who engage consumers and hold the potential to promote customer‐brand relationships across different product categories. SMIs have an existing relationship of trust with consumers, and consumers seek out the content created by SMIs for valuable information and advice. This study explores the process of brand engagement between consumers and brands in the digital content marketing environment, specifically examining the research question: Do SMIs act as a route to brand engagement for their followers? The context for this study is the beauty community on YouTube; over 60,000 user comments were analyzed through automated text analysis. This study is among the first to provide empirical evidence that SMIs do act as a route to brand engagement through the three dimensions of cognitive processing, affection and activation.     

虚拟社区、在线口碑与消费者行为

随着电子商务的发展,虚拟社区成为消费者分享个体购物经验、消费体验和沟通信息的重要场所,消费者在购物时也将虚拟社区中的口碑信息作为重要参考依据。本文在对国内外相关文献的研究基础上,构建出在线口碑对消费者行为的影响因素模型,并运用因子分析法对假设的模型进行了修正,发现口碑信息源因素、口碑信息传播方向因素、社区成员自身因素、社区成员互动因素和产品因素,在网络口碑对虚拟社区成员消费行为的影响过程中起了很大作用;企业若要利用好口碑信息就应提供充足的口碑信息,增加信息的可信度,提高在线口碑作为反馈机制的效益,提高在线口碑的间接收益,并掌握处理负面口碑的应急之策。     

Shopping-centre selection modelling: a segmentation approach

This study seeks to develop an in-store brand-extension commitment (ISBEC) scale. To accomplish this goal, consumers were questioned about the efforts they are willing to undertake when confronted with critical moments in the store concerning their favourite brand extension. Using exploratory factor analysis, seven dimensions of ISBEC efforts were discovered. A higher order factor analysis revealed two factors: switching brand extensions within the same brand and the commitment behaviours in favour of brand extensions. In addition, based upon these seven ISBEC effort dimensions, six clusters of consumers were discovered. In an era of ECR, where the manufacturer and the retailer seek to develop economically responsible category systems, insights into what consumers will do for their preferred brand extensions might provide them with some strategic insights.     

Cultural Differences in Consumer Engagement in Brand-Related SNS Groups: A Cross-Cultural Study of China and the United States

To gain a better understanding of consumer engagement in brand-related social network site (SNS) groups, this study examines how consumers engage with the brand and other members of the groups among different national cultures through the lens of brand community characteristics and collective value creation practices within brand communities. Through conducting a directed qualitative content analysis of two cases—consumer wall posts in a Facebook group and a Renren group—this study finds supporting evidence that although consumers in both groups actively shared their product use experiences, consumers in the Renren group tended to explicitly express their shared consciousness with other group members, share their product use experiences in a modest and respectful way, and actively engage in social networking, while consumers in the Facebook group tended to focus on product use sharing. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.     

Impact of Online Reviews on Consumer’s Hotel Booking Intentions: Does Brand Image Mediate?

Abstract

The recent trend suggests that people are more inclined to online hotel reviews to take online hotel booking decisions. The present study argues that when consumers are exposed to online hotel reviews, it draws an impression of the hotel brand in the mind of consumers, resulting in influence their hotel booking intentions. The current study determines the mediation effects of brand image between credible online hotel reviews and consumers’ hotel booking intentions. To ascertain the uni-dimensionality of the scales, the present study executes exploratory factor analysis. The ensure the internal consistency of the variable scales, the study determines Cronbach’s alpha. To measure the mediation effects, the present study performs structural equation modeling bootstrapping method. Data analysis reveals that marketers should look at hedonic brand image, which ultimately influences consumers’ hotel booking intentions. This is a unique study that ascertains the type of brand image that actually mediates between the impact of online hotel reviews and consumers’ hotel booking intentions. In addition, the paper furnishes theoretical background on how people interpret online hotel reviews and its effects.     

The effectiveness of nutritional information on foodservice companies’ corporate social responsibility

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of nutritional information disclosure and healthful menu context in the relationship of nutritional knowledge and consumers’ perceived CSR toward a foodservice company. Furthermore, the relationship among CSR, brand image, attitude and purchase intention was investigated. The study was designed with scenario experimental questionnaires: 3 (different nutritional information levels: no information, calorie only and content with six segments of nutritional information) X 2 (menu context: healthy or unhealthy menu context). Confirmatory factor analyses, structural equation modelling and analysis of variance analysis were used in order to examine the study hypotheses. The results of this study indicate that consumers’ nutritional knowledge helps increase consumers’ perceived CSR which has an impact on brand image, attitude and behavioural intention, however, no moderating effects of nutritional knowledge and healthful menu context were found. Furthermore, purchase intention was significantly affected by CSR, attitude and brand image. Therefore, disclosure of nutritional information and offering healthful menu would help restaurants gain a positive CSR which also would help them to expect consumers’ favourable purchase intention.     

Social media engagement: a model of antecedents and relational outcomes

This article investigates individual-level antecedents and relational outcomes of social media engagement. Social media engagement approached in this study is a three-dimensional construct composed of affective, cognitive and behavioural dimensions. Surveying more than 48 Facebook pages, spanning nine product categories and 448 consumers, the results show that product involvement, attitude towards the community and online interaction propensity all impact social media engagement. The study also reveals that high social media engagement increases brand relationships significantly, particularly affecting brand trust, commitment and loyalty. Additionally, community engagement appears as a precursor of brand engagement. These findings provide insight into antecedents and outcomes of engagement for academic research and bring value to online brand and community management.     

Drivers of brand community engagement

Brand community engagement is evolving as a prominent relationship marketing variable that yields promising outcomes for the firms. Drawing upon the relevant premises of social exchange theory, this paper proposes a theoretical model portraying the role of online brand community based benefits (experience based and self-esteem based) and the community relationship investment in predicting the levels of brand community engagement.Data collected through a survey questionnaire technique from 925 members of the firm created online brand communities was employed to test the measurement and structural theory using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling respectively. The empirical results reveal that the customers’ experiential and self-esteem based benefits drive their brand community engagement. The perceived community relationship investment of the members also drives their brand community engagement positively. The sequential structural model also supported a positive impact exerted by brand community engagement on brand community commitment and brand loyalty. Additionally, it is observed that the focal brand ownership moderates the effect of community benefits and community relationship investment on brand community engagement.This study contributes to the nascent academic research on online brand communities and to the existing understanding of the brand community managers in managing customer engagement in online brand communities, thereby of profound theoretical and managerial relevance.     

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.