scholarly journals Environmental Legitimacy Through Adopting Green Products and Its Effect on the Brand Equity: Moderating Role of Management Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Tareq N. Hashem

The current study sought to examine the influence of adopting green products as a form of environmental legitimacy on ''brand equit'y'' through the moderating role of management awareness. Quantitative method was adopted through utilizing a questionnaire which was distributed on (96) individuals within green brands producers in Jordan. Results of study indicated that all brand equity variables are influenced by adopting green products as a form of environmental legitimacy. Results also indicated that brand personality was the most influenced variable of all scoring an R value of (0.74) and explained 54.7% of total influence. Study recommended organizations to focus on adopting green products in order to enhance brand equity as an approach for developing and supporting sales, and encouraging customers of regular products to switch to green products. 

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110283
Author(s):  
Joe J. Gladstone ◽  
Emily N. Garbinsky ◽  
Sandra C. Matz

People prefer brands whose perceived image reflects their own psychological profile, a finding referred to as the self-brand congruity effect. For the first time, we test this effect in the field by utilizing over 17,000 real bank transaction records (Study 1, N = 405). We demonstrate that the strength of self-brand congruity is related to the financial resources a person must spend to acquire the brand, such that the effect holds only when the brand being purchased has a high (vs. low) price. We conceptually replicate the effect (Study 2, N = 354) and provide causal evidence through an experiment (Study 3, N = 404), manipulating price and brand personality while holding other brand attributes constant. We also provide evidence for one psychological mechanism underlying why price moderates self-brand congruity, finding personality-matched brands elicit fewer concerns about postpurchase regret, a bigger risk for high-price brands (Study 4, N = 300).


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsin Altaf ◽  
Sany Sanuri Mohd Mokhtar ◽  
Noor Hasmini Abd Ghani

The objective of the study is to investigate the moderating role of affective sentiments of brand psychological ownership of an employee in the relationship among the cognitive sentiments of employee brand understanding and employee brand equity of conventional and Islamic banks. Survey method was adopted to collect data from respondents from conventional and Islamic banks. Data were collected from 279 employees from the banking sector using two-stage probability sampling. Disproportionate stratified random sampling and simple random sampling were employed to collect responses. To analyze the data, multi-group analysis was applied using PLS-SEM technique through SmartPLS 3.0. Results demonstrated that congruence between brand image and individuals has a moderating effect on the relationship between brand confidence and employee brand equity in conventional banking. Responsibility to maintain brand image has a moderating effect on the relationship between brand knowledge and employee brand equity in conventional banking. In case of Islamic banking, only congruence between brand image and individuals exhibited a moderating role on the relationship between brand knowledge and employee brand equity. The importance of brand understanding of employees and psychological ownership of a brand has been widely discussed in branding literature. However, only a few studies investigated the relationship between dimensions of employee brand understanding and the employee brand psychological ownership with employee brand equity. The cognitive and affective sentiments of both exogenous latent constructs, their relationships, and the interaction effect of cognitive and affective sentiments were seldom discussed in branding literature. This study covers the in-depth view and investigation of brand understanding of employ¬ees and the affective and cognitive sentiments of brand psychological ownership with em¬ployee behavior toward a brand. This study also uncovers the moderating role of affective sentiments of brand psychological ownership on the relationship between cognitive senti¬ments of employee brand understanding and employee brand equity. This study will help researchers analyze the in-depth role of affective and cognitive sentiments on brand sup¬portive related behavior of employees.


2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gita Venkataramani Johar ◽  
Jaideep Sengupta ◽  
Jennifer L. Aaker

This research examines the dynamic process of inference updating. The authors present a framework that delineates two mechanisms that guide the updating of personality trait inferences about brands. The results of three experiments show that chronics (those for whom the trait is accessible) update their initial inferences on the basis of the trait implications of new information. Notably, nonchronics (those for whom the trait is not accessible) also update their initial inferences, but they do so on the basis of the evaluative implications of new information. The framework adds to the inference-making literature by uncovering two distinct paths of inference updating and by emphasizing the moderating role of trait accessibility. The findings have direct implications for marketers attempting to understand the construction of brand personality, and they emphasize the constantly evolving nature of brand perceptions and the notion that both the consumer and the marketer have important roles to play in this process.


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