Kuksov, Dmitri - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 10, pp. 1634-1644
This paper explores the consumer value of publicly associating oneself with a brand image. The economic value of such … association to the consumer of a brand is coming from its affect on the information exchange between consumers engaged in a search … for partnerships with each other. It turns out that the brand use can be valuable to consumers for communication even when …