Purpose: Copycat brands offering improved product quality pose serious challenges to original brands. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of why consumers prefer copycat brands with superior product attributes and how original brands can shift this preference back by strategically...

Purpose: This research aims to examine how credence, search and experience attributes compete with suggestive brand names that are incongruent with the attributes they cue (e.g. expensive EconoLodge Motel, short-lasting Duracell battery and joint-stiffening JointFlex pill)....

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how product experiences with a new product affect consumers attitudes toward the brand, the products country of origin (CO), and the other brands competing in the same market place. The dissertation is composed of two essays. Using direct...