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...

This book examines how the emergence of new media brings brought challenges to the North American sport industry, discussing challenges in terms of a shift from an information economy to an attention economy perspective. Historically, the arrival of new forms of media, including radio and...

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...

Do brand communities really work for FMCG? Can brand-community members be characterized by specific behavioral attributes? Are there significant differences between members and those simply visiting the brand-community site? In her study Sandra Meister derives a set of behavioral attributes...

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...

Florian Maier geht der Frage nach dem Einfluss von Social Media auf die B2B-Markenführung nach und nähert sich interdisziplinär diesem Thema an der Schnittstelle zwischen Marketing, Marken-, Unternehmensführung und Prozessmanagement. Dabei beschäftigt er sich intensiv damit, wie das...

Dieses Buch präsentiert die wesentlichen Aspekte der Markenführung im Internet. Wissenschaftler stellen die Erkenntnisse der Markentheorie dar und Praktiker aus verschiedenen Industriezweigen schildern, wie die Instrumente der Markenführung im Netz konkret eingesetzt werden. Da sich das...

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...

The Effect of Corporate Reputation on Health Insurance Choices in a Public-Policy-Shaped Environment of Premium Equality -- The Effects of Additional Contributions on Statutory Health Insurance Choices in Germany -- Social Media Effects along the Value Chain – A Narrative Review -- Corporate...