The paper presents the modern approach to brand conceptualisation and interprets its complexity by presenting different themes on branding, its evolving process as well as its characteristics in comparison to products. According to the modern approach the brand should be treated as a complex...

Objective - The purpose of this study is to identify which factor has a stronger influence on customer satisfaction: perceived value or brand association. By understanding the influencer, the seller understands what policies and implications should be addressed to maintain and even enhance...

This paper studies the impact of competition on the benefits of advance selling. I construct a two-period price-setting game with heterogeneous consumers and two firms that produce different brands. Some consumers prefer one brand, others prefer the other brand. Consumers derive common value...

This research examines the moderating role of consumer’s attachment style in the impact of brand personality. Findings support our hypotheses regarding the manner in which brand personality and attachment style differences systematically influence brand outcomes including brand attachment,...

Brand choice models implicitly assume that consumers incorporate all relevant marketing information such as price, display, and feature for key brands on each purchase occasion. We examine whether consumers actively evaluate the brands on every occasion. We propose a multistate choice model with...

Brand personality is an attractive and appealing concept in the marketing of today. Consumers perceive the brand on dimensions that typically capture a person's personality, and extend that to the domain of brands. The discussions in the paper are woven around the issues concerning brand...

The paper analyses the role of the relationship between brand quality, brand identification, and emotional attachment in contributing to brand loyalty. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how young consumer’s emotional responses to brand quality perceptions impact brand loyalty,...

Branding is an important element in the retailing industry to influence customer perceptions and drive store choice and loyalty. With the increasing of organized retailing in manifold in the urban and semi-urban areas, it is necessitated the retailer to brand its retail outlet. Even many...

The Brands in the modern era has witnessed a profound and paradigm shift in their marketing approaches towards consumers. The exponential growth and need of eco –friendly products have made the marketers to think of drastically mould their offerings and reasonably deliver their marketing...

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...