This present study investigates the moderating effect of celebrity endorsers' perceived religiosity in the relationship between dimensions in source credibility theory and consumers' purchase intention. A self-administered survey was conducted using mock-up stimuli to 505 respondents in major...

Celebrity endorsements create a magnitude of meaningful differences among luxury brands that subsequently generate skyrocketing sales fueled bycelebrity-inspired consumer's confidence. The present study explores the impact of celebrity endorsements as a modern marketing technique on customers'...

This paper tends to the effect of celebrity support to jewelry advertisements on the conduct of consumers, in particular on Lebanese females. The investigation is drawn closer from the point of view of the customer. It studies celebrity endorsement from pristine idea, speculations, efficiency,...

Rapid rise in social media users has spawned a new form of advertising for businesses called social media advertising. Advertisers have long faced one of the most important challenges: low consumer acceptability of commercials. It is vital to identify the most salient elements of social media...

Destination image influences the tourist decision-making process, and their intention to visit, revisit and recommend. Therefore, a positive destination image is considered one of the key destination success factors. Tourists will form the image according to their own or others' experiences and...

The financial sector particularly the mutual funds in Oman market have shown limited potential to attract consumers. Consumer attitudes towards financial investments have always been a challenge for the finance companies due to limited risk appetite of consumers which are largely attributed to...

This research aims to understand how the interactions across several social networks influence the visibility of a luxury brand's most relevant social network which acts as a showcase (Instagram). A data mining approach is proposed for modeling the number of likes on Instagram using 365 posts...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of consumers' perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR). The aim is to provide insight into the effect of perceived CSR on purchase intention (short-term effect) and corporate reputation (long-term effect), whilst considering...

This study set out to uncover brand positioning configurations by presenting state-ofthe- art brand management literature and applying a novel, mixed-methods approach to examine the under-researched wine industry transformation towards open innovation in branding. German winery brands were...