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fashion designer’s brand. Initial exploratory research revealed that there were 114 international fashion design houses … order to acquire capital to enable this expansion, over 60 per cent of all fashion designers are now public limited …
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Describes the use of a short, valid, reliable self‐report scale to measure consumer innovativeness. Suitable for mail questionnaire or personal interview, this six‐item, Likert‐type scale enables marketers and researchers to identify accurately the potential earliest buyers in a specific...
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Complementary approaches are proposed for understanding and targeting fashion consumers – concentrating especially on … innovation theory and self‐concept theory. These are seen as being two potentially relevant approaches because fashion is … important, and because fashion buying could have much to do with projecting images of how buyers see themselves (or would like …
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Purpose – Counterfeiting has become a significant economic phenomenon. Increased demand for counterfeit branded products (CBPs) makes the study of determinants of consumers CBPs purchase behaviour more worthwhile than ever before. Existing studies have largely neglected brand influence on...
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Purpose – Existing research on sponsorship effects shows that the congruence (i.e. fit) between sponsor and sponsored cause is critical for a change in brand image. Congruence between sponsor and sponsored cause is seen as static in nature. From a dynamic perspective it is unclear why...
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Reports a common occurrence in the marketplace: brand imitation. A total of 160 consumers participated in an experiment where goodness of imitation, presence/absence of the imitated brand, reputation of the store and type of product (convenience/luxury) were manipulated. The results show that...
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Topshop and Gap are important fashion retail brands targeting young style‐conscious UK consumers. However, business … retailer positioning pivots on a range of marketing activities as well as matching fashion consumers to styles. The research …
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Purpose – To investigate empirically the impact of brand extensions on brand personality, using Aaker's scale to measure the latter. Design/methodology/approach – Experimental study manipulating extension fit (good/poor fit), controlling for brand familiarity and including a control group....
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Purpose – The paper seeks to investigate the incremental value of a construct termed “undesired self‐image congruence”, and capture consumers' perceived closeness to negatively valenced brand‐related attributes over and above established self‐image congruence factors known to affect...
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