Nowadays, brands are companies’ most valuable assets, adding both economic and strategic value to its proprietors. During the last years, brand valuation has been an intensively analyzed subject among marketing specialists. The value of this asset is often referred to as brand equity which is...

Even though the number of brands has strongly increased in recent years, only a few managed to endow themselves with significant brand loyalty. Besides the actual proprietary brand assets, such as patents and trademarks, other major elements like brand loyalty, perceived quality, brand...

This document provides a bibliometric analysis of the current state of the brand equity research by mapping the research landscape to identify more productive authors and countries over time, analysis of publications, cooperation between authors, co-appointments, co-occurrences of keywords;...

This document provides a bibliometric analysis of the current state of the brand equity research by mapping the research landscape to identify more productive authors and countries over time, analysis of publications, cooperation between authors, co-appointments, co-occurrences of keywords;...

Studies on brand loyalty typically focus on the behavioural side of brand loyalty or on the attitudinal side. Rare are the studies that examine simultaneously both components of brand loyalty. The present study was performed to describe the conjoint contribution of cognitive and affective...

Nowadays, in an age of globalization, brands are growing ever more valuable. They have to differentiate one product from another, position the offer and also be adaptable both to changes in product lines and ranges, and to evolving consumers’ expectations. The continual increase in the number...

To increase the sales of their products through advertising, firms must integrate their brand-advertising strategy for capturing market share from competitors and their generic-advertising strategy for increasing primary demand for the category. This paper examines whether, when, and how much...

Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on advertising to build and maintain awareness for their brands in competitive markets. However, awareness formation models in the marketing literature ignore the role of competition. Consequently, we lack both the empirical knowledge and...

This study relies on the social identity perspective to explore the relationships between the consumer-brand identification (CBI) construct and the customers' satisfaction, commitment, trust and loyalty toward hospitality brands. The methodology included a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) that...

This study examines brand dispersion — variance in brand ratings across consumers — and its role in the translation of brand assets into firm value. Dispersion captures the covert heterogeneity in evaluations of brands among consumers who like or dislike the brands, which would affect an...