Purpose: Although international product-harm crises have become more common, the influence of the country image (CI) associated with foreign goods in such crises remains under researched. This study aims to investigate the extent to which the CI of a foreign made product influences consumers’...

In this exploratory study we investigate whether a brand identified as ?niche? in traditional brand performance metrics (penetration and average purchase frequency) is also ?niche? in metrics representative of brand attribute associations. We assess the level of brand salience (propensity of...