The Relationship Among Customer-Retailer Affection, Mianzi Consciousness and Purchase Intention of Retailer＇s Store Brand

本文将消费者与商店之间的情感关系定义为消费者的商店情感,并将其引入到自有品牌感知价值和购买意愿的研究之中。在将自有品牌的感知价值分为金钱节省价值和质量价值后,本文探讨商店情感和自有品牌购买程度对感知价值的影响,以及消费者的面子意识对上述影响关系中的调节作用。通过实证研究发现,商店情感和自有品牌购买程度均对金钱节省价值和质量价值有正面作用,面子意识负向调节质量价值对自有品牌购买意愿的影响,但是面子意识在金钱节省价值对自有品牌购买意愿的影响关系中缺乏调节作用。     

虚拟品牌社群娱乐价值对品牌忠诚的作用机制研究

笔者采用实验方法,首次就虚拟品牌社群娱乐价值对消费者品牌忠诚的作用机制进行探究,并将品牌社群承诺细分为情感性承诺和算计性承诺两种类型。结果发现:情感性品牌社群承诺在其中起到完全中介的作用。因此企业在实践中应加强虚拟品牌社群的娱乐版块建设,并通过多种方式来强化消费者的情感性品牌社群承诺以促进其品牌忠诚。     

“企业文化力-品牌力”模型：一种民族文化视角下的战略选择

随着国内市场经济体制的逐步完善,产品差异化程度逐渐削弱,同质化程度逐渐增强,品牌的效用日趋明显：文章有如下创新和结论：提出了“企业文化力－品牌力关系模型”;一个世界级的企业,既要拥有自己独特的企业文化,还要具备强势的品牌影响力;面对众多世界级品牌的挑战,民族品牌的优势就是中华民族五千年博大精深的文化,民族品牌只有烙上民族文化的独特印记才有可能成为世界的品牌。     

The influence of anthropomorphic appearance of artificial intelligence products on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different product types

While artificial intelligence products are widely used in the market, their anthropomorphic appearance design is becoming a frontier issue in product strategy and consumer behavior research. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of anthropomorphic appearance on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different AI product types. It was conducted in China, a new but rapidly-growing country in the field of Internet, AI technology and AI product consumption. This study conducted four situational experiments with a 2 (anthropomorphic design: anthropomorphic vs. non-anthropomorphic) × 2 (product type: hedonic vs. utilitarian) between subjects’ experimental design. Data was collected from 1172 Chinese “Digital Natives” by using a structured questionnaire. The findings revealed that for hedonic AI products, anthropomorphic appearance improves consumers' purchase intention and brand evaluation through perceived entertainment, and intelligence level significantly moderates the mediating effect of perceived entertainment; while for practical AI products, anthropomorphic appearance improves consumers' purchase intention and brand evaluation through perceived usefulness, and intelligence level does not significantly moderate the mediating effect of perceived usefulness. There is no significant moderating effect of intelligence level on perceived usefulness. The study contributes to development and validation of a more comprehensive understanding and theoretical foundation of anthropomorphism, and furthermore explores the impact of anthropomorphic appearance on consumer behavior and brand evaluation under different AI product types. This study also provides insights for companies to apply anthropomorphic strategies.     

Brand attachment and customer citizenship behaviors

Service brand attachment has emerged as a growing body of research. Although previous studies have examined the relationship between brand attachment and customer behaviors, the mechanism underlying this relationship remains unknown, particularly in a service context. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between brand attachment and customer citizenship behaviors and to clarify the role of perceived value among regular customers of international hotel brands in Taiwan. To examine this model, confirmatory factor analysis was employed to analyze survey data from 299 hotel customers, the results of which indicated that perceived value completely mediated the relationship between brand attachment and customer citizenship behaviors. Therefore, perceived value is the mechanism that explains how service brand attachment is associated with customer citizenship behaviors. These results demonstrate the importance of perceived value and imply that service managers should strengthen customers’ perceived value of service brands to enhance customer citizenship behaviors.     

金融企业的品牌传播策略研究——以招商银行为例

随着经营环境的变化,金融企业间的竞争逐渐进入了品牌致胜的时代。借鉴招商银行的品牌传播策略,金融企业品牌传播成功的关键点在于:在详细调研的基础上进行品牌定位,选择与品牌定位相符的方式和渠道进行品牌传播,善用公共关系,担负起社会责任,最后企业还要有效地利用文化力,建立起基于企业文化的品牌传播体系。     

Tie the knot: building stronger consumers’ attachment toward a brand

Extant research has promoted the importance and seeking to establish a deeper understanding of brand loyalty. However, it still remains elusive and uncertain. A study with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide believes that creating a bond with consumers and continuing to learn how to strengthen the bond are essential for realizing strategies and delivering on shareholder expectations. Not surprisingly, firms and researchers are seeking ways to build a stronger connection with consumers, because such attachment acts as a key requisite in a firm’s success. Consequently, understanding how marketers can intensify the attachment is important. This article offers a framework for building stronger consumers’ attachment and testing it based on a survey of 432 participants. Four factors are deemed to be important: ideal self-congruence, sensory experience, responsiveness, and CSR beliefs. Attachment influences loyalty and resilience to negative information. Additionally, attachment fully mediates ideal self-congruence and responsiveness to loyalty, as well as ideal self-congruence and sensory experience to resilience to negative information.     

品牌社群认同对品牌忠诚的影响研究

从品牌社群认同切入,以新奇军作为研究对象,构建社群认同影响品牌忠诚的概念模型。实证研究表明,不同层次的社群认同对品牌认同和社群承诺的影响存在差异,并验证了社群认同如何通过品牌认同和社群承诺作用于品牌忠诚的具体路径。     

基于外部性的产业集群品牌治理

目前,产业集群品牌已经成为学术界研究的热点和前沿。产业集群品牌是产业集群发展到一定阶段的产物,是产业集群内企业集体表现的结果,不同于一般意义上的企业品牌。与普通的企业品牌相比,产业集群品牌具有明显的俱乐部公共产品特性、公共产权特性以及基于上述特征的外部性特征。通过对产业集群品牌的正、负外部性的表现和经济学意义的表征进行详细阐述,并基于产业集群品牌的外部性提出了产业集群品牌的治理对策。     

Brand morphing across Wal-Mart customer segments

The premise of segmentation theory is that different segments each have a discrete customer profile and behavioral characteristics. At a conceptual level, the recent branding literature recognizes that different sub-cultures or segments could experience different meanings of an organization's brand. However, few quantitative studies address the issue. The current paper combines branding and segmentation theory and offers a new perspective on whether all segments have the same brand meaning. A leading discount retailer, Wal-Mart, is the focus of this Canadian-based investigation. Two segments of Wal-Mart customers are the basis of the study — one segment preferring Wal-Mart and one less attached. The research quantifies the two networks of brand meaning that the two segments associate with the Wal-Mart (corporate) brand. Empirically, brand morphing of the corporate brand occurs, with different brand meanings across the two segments.