Presentation given at the 2nd International Consumer Brand Relationships Conference, www.consumer-brand-relationships.org
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Imene Becheur
Noel Albert
Pierre Valette-Florence
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DO AGREEABLE/PLEASANT BRANDS GENERATE MORE LOVE AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT? A STUDY ON SEVEN GLOBAL BRANDS
1. DO AGREEABLE/PLEASANT BRANDS
GENERATE MORE LOVE AND
AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT? A STUDY
ON SEVEN GLOBAL BRANDS
Imene Becheur, Wesford France
Noel Albert, Wesford France
Pierre Valette-Florence, I.A.E Grenoble, France
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2. RESEARCH CONTEXT
Agreeableness has an impact on the feeling of love
in an interpersonal context (White, Hendrick,
Hendrick, 2004)
Extraversion and agreeableness are the
dimensions of the OCEAN model of brand
personality most linked to feeling of love (Caralis
and Haslam, 2004; Wiggins, 1979)
Love is a mix of extroversion and agreeableness
Schmitt and Buss (2000)
Affection, one main love dimension is linked to
agreeableness and devotion (Fehr and Broughton,
2001) 2
3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Study the role of brand personality in creating
strong brand relationships:
Determine whether agreeableness, a brand personality
dimension is an antecedent of brand love, and if brand
love has an impact on emotional commitment to the
brand.
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4. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Based on interpersonal
theories
Triangular Love Theory from
Sternberg
(1986)
Shimp et Madden (1988)
Keh et al. (2007)
Kamat et al. (2007)
Colors of Love Theory from
Lee (1977) revisited by
Hendrick et Hendrick (1986)
Whang et al. (2004)
No reference to interpersonal theories
Fournier (1998)
Carroll et Ahuvia (2006)
Albert (2009)
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5. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Brand Love scale (Albert, 2009)
Passion
Idealization
Dream
Affection
Pleasure
Memory
Intimacy
Unicity
2 second order
dimensions
6 first order
dimensions
18 Items
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6. Brand personality
Pioneering work of Aaker (1997)
Ambroise (2009)
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
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Introversion Introversion
Agreeableness
conviviality
Seduction
Creativity
Consciousness Conscientious
Sophistication
Original
Precious
Fallacy
Cheating
Ascendant
7. HYPOTHESES & MODEL
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Agreeableness
Brand
personality
Brand love
Brand
commitment
H.2. The more the
consumer feels in love with
a brand, the more his
affective commitment to it
increases
H1. The more a brand is
agreeable, the more the
consumer is in love with
it
8. METHODOLOGY
Sample: 210 people, including 141 women and 69
men, aged between 18 and 25 years
Measures:
Brand personality: Ambroise (2010)
Brand love: Albert (2010)
Affective commitment : Fullerton (2003)
Brands: Seven global brands
Coca Cola, Converse, Hello Kitty, Nina Ricci, Nutella,
Playstation, and Starbucks (30 persons/brand)
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9. PLS (Partial Least Squares) approach
procedure of systematic Bootstrap (200
replications)
Model adequacy with data: GoF (Goodness of
Fit) index proposed by Tenenhaus and al. (2005)
0.995 for internal GoF and 0.872 for external GoF
Our model is satisfactory since GoF is close to 1
METHODOLOGY
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15. CONTRIBUTIONS
Results show links between the agreeableness
dimension of personality, and all the love
dimensions for a brand.
These links differ from a brand to another
depending on the brand characteristics
(personality)
In order to strengthen feelings of brand love among
consumers, brands should communicate friendly
characteristics (pleasant, attaching, funny, etc…)
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16. LIMITATIONS & NEXT STEPS
Our work focused on agreeable brands
Need to compare with brand relationships of exciting or
sincere brands
Use Aaker’s (1997) classification of brand
personality (sincerity, excitement, competence,
sophistication, Ruggedness)
Collect more data on larger samples
Study the effects of good or bad emotions on
brand relationships
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17. DO AGREEABLE/PLEASANT BRANDS
GENERATE MORE LOVE AND
AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT? A STUDY
ON SEVEN GLOBAL BRANDS
Imene Becheur
Noel Albert
Pierre Valette-Florence
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For the first time, we demonstrate in marketing the impact of brand personality on brand love.
for Starbucks and Nina Ricci, seduction has more impact on brand love, whereas for Converse, creativity has a stronger impact and for Coca Cola, conviviality is the personality dimension that affects more brand love
Des recherches en marketing indiquent que les deux dimensions majeures de la personnalité d’une marque sont excitation vs sincère (SWAMINATHAN et al. 2009). Dans notre recherche, une dimension majeure s’avère être le caractère agréable de la marque. Seule dimension à avoir une une influence sur toutes les dimensions de l’amour => ICI il faudrait donner une application managériale => les managers doivent ne pas omettre la dimension agréable de leur marque (dire comment est-ce que l’on peut générer un caractère agréable. Demander Haythem. Car j’en sais rien).
Recherche qui met en évidence qu’il existe que l’origine de l’amour des consommateurs varient grandement en fonction des caractéristiques (ici la personnalité) de ces marques.
(Ce que je souhaite dire ici c’est que l’on teste des modèles globales en ne distinguant que rarement les marques entre elles. Or cette recherche démontre qu’il existe de très grandes différentes entre marques sur un même modèle. Il faudrait arriver à le dire clairement)
Quelle est la facette (de la perso) qui a le plus faible impact sur Brand Love (modèle global) ?
Quelle est la facette de l’amour la moins impacté par la personnalité ?
En répondant à ces questions, je crois qu’on pourrait rajouter qques contributions.
Especially that other researchers showed that the two major dimensions of brand personality are exciting and sincere (SWAMINATHAN et al. 2009).
A brand can possibly generate positive or negative emotions in individuals as a result of a good or bad experience with the brand or perception of brand personality. These emotions and their effects should be studied in future research.