服务品牌内化结果的实证研究——基于员工忠诚度视角

员工是消费者感知和信任品牌的重要来源。笔者从员工忠诚视角,探讨服务品牌内化结果模型,并以物流服务为例进行实证研究。结果表明:除了品牌内部认知与品牌忠诚间的相互关系不显著外,服务型企业的五个品牌内化特征与员工品牌内化的品牌认同、品牌忠诚维度之间均存在显著的正相关性;员工品牌内化的品牌认同、品牌忠诚维度均与员工忠诚之间存在显著的正相关性。这一结论为服务企业的品牌建设和员工忠诚,提供了有价值的启发和借鉴。     

内部营销对员工品牌内化行为的影响关系与路径研究——以服务型企业为例

基于5个典型案例企业,提出了品牌内部营销的构成要素(品牌培训、品牌沟通和品牌贡献激励),发现品牌内化的结果主要体现为员工的参与意识和参与行为。对保险、银行、酒店、通信4个行业中的113家企业实施问卷调查,分析了以上3个品牌内部营销要素对品牌内化员工参与的影响关系与路径,研究发现品牌培训对品牌内化员工参与意识和参与行为没有显著的影响;品牌沟通和品牌贡献激励2个因素更能有效地影响员工参与品牌内化的意识和行为。     

基于员工视角的服务品牌内化过程及其实证研究

员工是消费者感知和信任品牌的重要来源。本文基于员工视角探讨服务品牌的内化过程,通过引入心理学、社会学等领域下的内化观点,提出了认知、交换、关系三种内化机制,并以82家服务企业的467名员工为样本进行实证研究。结果表明,三种机制均存在于服务品牌内化过程中,其中组织文化协同、组织内部沟通在三种机制中均起到了积极的作用;高层领导参与只在交换与关系机制中有显著的影响;品牌培训在关系机制中没有显著影响,而品牌激励却在关系机制中影响显著,此外,与传统的态度—行为理论相区别的是,在三种机制下,员工的参与意识并不总是发生于行为之前,而是在不同情境下产生不同的效果。这些结论对于服务企业的品牌建设工作提供了有价值的启发与借鉴。     

品牌价值共创的关键维度及其对顾客认知与品牌绩效的影响:产业服务情境的实证研究

近期品牌文献开始将研究边界从消费市场转向组织市场,但仍缺乏对产业服务品牌的足够关注.此外,文献遵循传统的品牌价值链模型,将品牌价值的产生聚焦于企业单方面的营销策略,并未考虑多重利益相关者的互动和价值共同创造活动.本研究将服务主导逻辑的思维范式整合到品牌研究领域,首先根据三家产业服务企业的定性访谈识别了品牌价值共创活动的关键维度,并确立研究框架,进而通过258对产业服务提供商与客户企业的问卷调查对品牌价值共创的维度及其对品牌绩效的影响进行验证.研究提取了四组利益相关者界面上八个维度的品牌价值共创活动,这些活动直接或间接影响品牌价值的顾客认知以及最终的品牌绩效.论文是首个基于服务主导逻辑的视角对产业品牌价值的形成机理进行的实证探索,研究结论具有启发产业服务企业关注多重利益相关者构建的社会网络中的互动性价值共创活动,以此提升品牌管理绩效.     

品牌内化研究综述:基于员工和组织层面的主要观点

品牌内化是一个新兴的研究主题,本文通过文献梳理,界定出该理论聚焦的两个研究层面:员工与组织,并分别依据员工和组织层面梳理、总结和评析了品牌内化的基本内涵、主要构成和驱动要素。这些研究结论为品牌内化理论发展提供了方向和依据,同时为企业品牌管理实践提出了新的工具与思路。     

有关品牌文化内涵及影响因素的探索性研究

随着商品经济的发展和市场竞争的日益激烈,品牌文化的建设已经成为一个品牌成功的关键.本研究基于扎根理论对品牌文化的概念模型进行了探索性研究.通过文献分析和质的研究(32个深度访谈、四组焦点团体访谈)相结合的方法,本研究认为品牌文化包括企业文化、产品与服务、品牌个性和理念以及品牌归属四个维度.品牌文化以企业文化为基础,以产品和服务为载体,通过理念、个性、声誉等品牌精神的塑造,最终使得用户对品牌产生归属感.在这一过程中,品牌文化的形成受到企业营销手段、社会潮流和消费者的共同影响.本研究为品牌文化的定量研究打下了坚实的基础,对品牌研究和营销实践都具有重要意义.     

顾客体验对服务品牌权益的影响机理——基于百货商场的实证研究

笔者基于百货商场进行了一次实证研究，探究了顾客体验对服务品牌权益的影响机理。此项实证研究，全面地揭示了顾客体验对服务品牌权益的作用机制，充分地回答了三个方面的问题：一是顾客体验如何影响服务品牌权益维度？二是服务品牌权益的维度之间存在何种关系？三是服务品牌权益的维度如何影响服务品牌权益？此项研究不仅弥补了以往研究只关注产品品牌的不足，而且证实了顾客体验对服务企业品牌建设的重要性。     

多维互动对服务品牌资产的影响——基于灰关联分析的研究

从现有文献和观点中提炼出了服务企业、一线员工与顾客之间的主要互动因素,构建了一个基于多维互动的服务品牌资产分析框架,并基于此框架运用灰关联分析方法进行了探索性的实证研究,验证了服务企业、一线员工与顾客之间的多维互动是服务品牌资产消长的根源,也揭示了处于初级阶段的我国服务企业品牌建设的特征.     

多维互动对服务品牌资产的影响———基于灰关联分析的研究

从现有文献和观点中提炼出了服务企业、一线员工与顾客之间的主要互动因素,构建了一个基于多维互动的服务品牌资产分析框架,并基于此框架运用灰关联分析方法进行了探索性的实证研究,验证了服务企业、一线员工与顾客之间的多维互动是服务品牌资产消长的根源,也揭示了处于初级阶段的我国服务企业品牌建设的特征．     

服务忠诚驱动因素与驱动机理--基于国内外相关理论和实证研究的系统分析

随着服务业的迅速发展和市场竞争的日趋激烈,消费者品牌转换行为不断增多,严重地影响了服务企业的获利能力和生存能力。本文在对国内外相关理论研究和实证研究进行系统分析的基础上,对服务忠诚驱动因素进行梳理,并构建一个综合、可操作性强的服务忠诚驱动模型,以为服务企业探寻服务忠诚的驱动因素,从而制定正确的营销策略提供指导,同时也为服务忠诚领域更进一步的研究提供新的路径。     

顾客体验驱动的服务品牌建设

创建强势服务品牌是服务企业实现差别化竞争优势的重要手段。本文在对现有研究成果进行历史性回顾的基础上,从服务的过程属性出发,阐述了服务企业品牌建设的焦点应该是顾客体验的观点,然后探讨了通过塑造顾客体验来创建服务品牌的策略。     

Product and service innovation with customer recognition

Product and service innovation is important for brands to succeed in a competitive marketplace. As information technology advances, customer recognition becomes a growing industry trend; that is, brands track customers' purchase history, recognize and price discriminate between repeat and new customers.The trend of customer recognition has changed the nature and intensity of competition between brands. In this article, we examine how customer recognition and the associated changes in competition affect brands' incentives to invest in product and service innovation. We find that when brands have similar equity, customer recognition increases brands' incentives to invest in product and service innovation. However, when brands have sufficiently different equity, customer recognition leads the stronger brand to invest more and the weaker brand to invest less in product and service innovation. In addition, extant literature suggests that customer recognition reduces brand profits. In contrast, we find that customer recognition can increase the weaker brand's profit but decreases it more for the stronger brand. Thus, collecting customers' purchase history data for customer recognition can be beneficial for weaker brands but detrimental for stronger brands.     

Brand management: Unveiling the delusion of control

Mainstream brand management literature views brands as products or organisations carrying brand names and brand managers as being in control of brand-related actions and outcomes. By contrast, recent empirical research shows the substantial influence of stakeholders on brands. Together with brand management, stakeholders shape brands by participating in brand-related interaction. European brand research accordingly treats brands as ongoing and complex processes in constant flux. Nevertheless, literature suffers from a significant lack of theoretical underpinnings for understanding brands as complex processes; in this respect, building on European philosophy is a fruitful avenue. This paper introduces the metaphor of the rhizome and draws on European process philosophy to further develop an integrative processual understanding of brands. Brand management claiming control over brands as processes turns out to be a delusion.     

基于顾客的品牌权益测评:品牌联想结构分析法

品牌建设的核心是创建品牌权益.通过分析顾客的品牌联想结构,有助于考察品牌建设的效果,揭示品牌对顾客的影响.本文分析了基于顾客的品牌权益概念的科学内涵,详细阐述了品牌联想的构造,并对若干中外品牌的品牌联想结构进行了实证分析.     

Consumer perceptions of luxury brands: An owner-based perspective

To deepen theoretical and practical understanding of consumers' perceptions of luxury brands, prior marketing literature has investigated the financial, functional, individual, and social dimensions of the luxury value construct. However, it has not considered the owners of luxury brands or detailed the moderated effects of luxury value on related attitudinal outcomes. To address this gap, this study draws on an existing second-order conceptualization of luxury value to introduce and empirically examine an extended conceptualization of the owner-based luxury value (OBLV) construct. The study draws on brand equity theory to offer a conceptual model of the attitudinal outcomes of OBLV in terms of brand loyalty, brand attachment, brand community behavior, and brand engagement. Using unique data from 452 actual owners of three luxury brands (Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Prada), the authors confirm the predicted attitudinal outcomes of OBLV and reveal moderating effects of awareness of counterfeit existence. Their findings provide new insights and implications for luxury brand research and luxury brand managers. The research provides a richer understanding of OBLV and yields important managerial insights into how to influence luxury-seeking consumers' perceptions of, and attitudes to, luxury brands.     

Meaning threats heighten consumer attachment: implications for global brand management

Global brand consumers have become more prone to engage in variety-seeking and loyalty-switching behavior, so global brand managers are in urgent need to develop effective strategies to reinforce brand loyalty and lower the propensity of consumer defection. As a growing body of research indicates, consumer attachment and brand loyalty are closely correlated. The current study, linking the concepts of fluid meaning compensation and consumer attachment, unravels a novel loyalty-reinforcing avenue. Three experiments, manipulating scenarios of meaning threats commonly seen in everyday life (sense of absurdity, anxious uncertainty and social exclusion) on global brand consumers, verify that meaning threats heighten attachment of consumers toward their most attached brands. More importantly, this finding applies to global brand consumers across product or service brand categories with luxury or non-luxury brand positions. Hence, maximizing the fluid meaning compensation function of attached brands is conducive to reinforcement of global brand loyalty. Academic and strategic implications are gleaned from the research result for global brand management.     

Does a Store Brand Always Hurt the Manufacturer of a Competing National Brand?

It is generally believed that store brands hurt the manufacturers of competing national brands while benefiting retailers. In this study, we challenge this notion by studying the impacts of a store brand when it is introduced by a power retailer. We show that a store brand may benefit the manufacturer when the interaction between the manufacturer and retailer is modeled as a retailer‐led Stackelberg game. This phenomenon occurs because the store brand changes the nature of the strategic interaction between the manufacturer and retailer in our model. In particular, while the interaction is always vertical strategic substitutability without a store brand, it may become vertical strategic independence with one. With the store brand, the demand for the national brand becomes larger, and the wholesale price for the national brand may increase, both of which benefit the manufacturer. Finally, the store brand may lessen the double marginalization problem of the supply chain for the national brand in the retailer‐led Stackelberg game, but does so in an unconventional way: The reduction in the double marginalization effect may come from a lowered retail markup instead of a lowered wholesale price. Our results reconcile some discrepancies between theoretical predictions and empirical findings regarding the impacts of store brands on manufacturers.     

基于顾客的饭店品牌价值影响因素的实证研究

本研究在对基于顾客的饭店品牌价值影响因素进行分析的基础上,探讨了饭店企业中服务质量对品牌表现的作用影响,分析了品牌认知如何与服务质量共同作用于顾客满意度和忠诚度。研究的主要结论为:在服务质量对品牌满意的作用和影响上,品牌认知与服务质量存在着显著的交互作用,品牌态度的强弱影响了服务质量与顾客满意度的关系。     

An Assessment of Brand Experience Knowledge Literature: Using Bibliometric Data to Identify Future Research Direction

There is wide consensus that the brand experience literature (BEL) suffers from a deficit in conceptual works. This study argues that, for brand experience research to overcome its conceptual insipidity, it must re‐examine the core of its intellectual structure to rediscover what ‘an experience provided by brands’ truly implies. The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize and present a future research framework for research into the concept of brand experience, by identifying both the core and peripheral sources of knowledge of the concept and its association with brand meaning. Through a bibliometric process covering 136 articles published between 2002 and 2018, resulting in a database of 2698 citations, this brand experience conceptual paper fills a critical research gap by providing the first full‐scale bibliometric study to date of the BEL, using a combination of high citation and co‐citation metrics. Based on this conceptual reorientation, a matrix for future development is presented, enabling the reader to visualize the scope and breadth of potential brand experience research horizons in areas relating to customer experience, consumer–brand relationship, online brand experience and sensory brand experience. The four approaches listed in the matrix – firm‐based, social constructionist, virtuality and embodiment – provide a roadmap for future brand experience research undertakings to explore the rich potential of experience evoked by brands.     

论服务名牌战略

本文在分析服务名牌特点及服务名牌战略独有的类型基础上,论述了服务名牌战略的八大功能,并从服务企业的角度提出了实施服务名牌战略的设想.