In a very frequent buying situation, consumers have to choose among products with very similar intrinsic attributes. Under these conditions they must rely mainly on extrinsic product attributes. The authors examine the relative importance of brand, an extrinsic attribute, and an intrinsic...

We examine how and why consumers engage in retributional acts directed towards brands that are perceived as harmful. Consumers are shown to lie, cheat, and steal as they attribute lower moral worth to harmful brands and this effect is shown to persist in the absence of any attributable brand...

We study complementarities between brands in the context of collaborations across museums. Over the course of our sample, one major museum with a highly recognized brand closed temporarily and sequentially collaborated with two established local museums. With individual panel data on museum...

To evaluate how occurring critical incidents change customer perceptions of brand personality, this study measures the impact on the basis of an online experiment. For this purpose, 1,132 usable responses are gathered considering the smartphone brands of Apple and Nokia as well as different...

Most brand extension literature usually focus on consumers' evaluations of brand extensions from the perspective of the parent brand or the extensions product characteristics, or the interaction of the parent brand and the extensions. However, little brand extension research, as well as even...