This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. First, it lays out the foundations like the evolution of the Web and the so-called Social Web, its utility for users and businesses, and the evolution of the...

Presenting a scientific exploration of personal branding and digital communication, this ground-breaking book aims to fill a gap between theory and practice. Describing how social media can increase brand profiles online, it explains basic terms before investigating the cultural context for...

The emergence of social media as one of the driving forces of consumers’ online experiences today also challenges our current understanding on marketing and brand management. The effects of brands’ social media involvement are to this day uncertain. Severin Dennhardt shows that social media...

This volume presents the proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on National Brand & Private Label Marketing - a collection of original, rigorous and highly relevant contributions. The 2017 NB&PL marketing conference offers a unique academic forum where researchers present and discuss...

Relevance of Social Networks for Brand Management -- Attachment as Central Construct for the Measurement of Consumers’ Connections to Brand Pages in Social Networks -- Empirical Analysis and Validation of Consequences of Brand Page Attachment -- Identification of Antecedents of Brand Page...

This book presents the latest research and recent studies in the field of national brand and private label marketing. It covers a wide range of topics, including retailing, marketing, general business, psychology, economics and statistics. It addresses diverse areas of application, such as brand...