Digital video recorder proliferation and new commercial audience metrics are making television networks' revenues more sensitive to audience losses from advertising. There is currently limited understanding of how traditional advertising and product placement affect television audiences. We...

I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's effects on the identity projects...

Research on consumer-brand relationships (CBR) has examined the CBR - brand loyalty link, but surprisingly little is known about the cultural and institutional settings that enable this link. We meta-analyze how and why different CBR constructs (e.g. love, identification) drive loyalty better in...

Drawing from psychological ownership and linguistics theories, we show that compared to a non-possessive brand name, a possessive brand name leads to more favorable brand evaluations and purchase intentions, which is mediated by greater attributions of identity-relevant brand attributes and...

The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has become a prominent management theory to analyze firm resources as potential sources of competitive advantage. Theorists have suggested sponsorship of sport properties as one such resource, yet specific cases of sponsorship’s role in a firm’s...

Seeded marketing campaigns (SMCs) involve firms sending product samples to selected customers and encouraging them to spread word of mouth (WOM). Prior research has examined certain aspects of this increasingly popular form of marketing communication, such as seeding strategies and their...

Deal-of-the-day (DoD) promotions are nowadays very popular. As a special form of a price promotion, they allow firms to offer products at substantial price discounts, usually at or above 50%, for a very limited period of time, usually between one and seven days. Conventional wisdom suggests that...

Beginning in the late 1940s the application of psychoanalytic theory and tools to marketing concerns yielded seminal concepts that defined and elaborated the brand image, consumption symbolism, and consumer motivation, among others. The focus was commonly on the deeper-level meanings that...

The aim of this paper is to analyse consumers’ perception about private label products of Indian retailers and to examine the group difference between gender of the consumers and their perceptions towards private label product attributes. Total 345 samples are collected from consumers across...

The Present paper proposes an explorative research study on an emerging horizon of management of Social Media Marketing. As this new trend and tool of marketing is developing itself at a rapid pace today and looks into future with a good prospect so it is very much pertinent to present a study...