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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Consumer/Brand Relationships"”.
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Exploring the impact of language on consumer-brand relationships across digital media
Within the marketing management sphere, consumer-brand relationship theory has attracted interest and academic research since its inception. One area that has been relatively unexplored, however, is the interplay between vernacular languages and consumer-brand relationships in a multilingual South …
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Centennial Brand Heritage: Exploring How the Dynamic of Nostalgia Drives Trust, Satisfaction, Commitment, and Control Mutuality in Gen Z's Consumer Brand Relationships
Centennial brands, with a history spanning over a hundred years, continue to foster strong consumer-brand relationships despite evolving consumer behaviors and technological advancements. This dissertation explores the critical role of nostalgia in shaping and sustaining consumer-brand …
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Verifying Authenticity: Blockchain Technology as a tool to rebuild consumer trust in brand authenticity claims.
Consumer trust in brand claims of authenticity is at an all-time low due to an influx of marketing techniques effectively muddling claims of authenticity. The study explores the potential for Blockchain Technology (BCT) to act as a tool to rebuild consumer trust in brand authenticity claims and …
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Brand Defence: Consumers’ Word-of-Mouth Behaviour Towards a Loved Brand
… doctoral research was to ‘critically explore brand love and brand defence in consumer-brand relationships by considering the question: can consumers go beyond positive word-of-mouth, and/or brand advocacy to defend their loved-brands against criticism?’ In achieving the research aim, the study …
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Shifting personal brandscapes: young sojourners’ consumer acculturation
… research focuses on how individual sojourners’ consumer-brand relationships and personal brandscapes shift as result of temporary mobility. In addition, the impacts of the individual’s sojourn on home and host others through gifting and the shared production and consumption of foods is …
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More than Just Words. How the Communication Style Adopted by Brands Affect their Relationships with Consumers
… has been to examine how specific aspects of brand communication style affect the ways in which relationships between brands and consumers form and evolve. A central research question has guided this dissertation: How, when, and why does the style of communication employed by a brand affect …
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Drivers and outcomes of brand attachment
Brand attachment refers to the cognitive andaffective bonding between consumers and ‘their’ brands. Building consumerbrand relationships is becoming increasingly important for academics and practitioners. Academics argue that comprehending the consumer brand relationship provides insight to …
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Share, like, tweet and cheer: an examination of social media usage and the NFL
… to the contemporary sport literature related to consumer-brand relationships and fan identification. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation was to identify and examine how NFL fans are using social media as part of their fandom and why they make the effort to do so. A total of twenty …
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WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BRAND? THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BRAND NOSTALGIA ON CONSUMER RESPONSES TO CHANGED BRANDS
Marketers often make changes to brands to make the brand seem current or exciting. Some updates are successful while others are spectacular failures. This dissertation establishes a connection between consumer acceptance or rejection of updated brands and the consumer’s reported brand nostalgia. In …