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Article: Enjoyment or autonomy? The interactive effect of brand ritual and brand personality on consumer purchase
Title | Enjoyment or autonomy? The interactive effect of brand ritual and brand personality on consumer purchase |
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Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | Psychology & Marketing, 2022 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The use of brand rituals is a pervasive tactic in business, but the marketing effectiveness of this practice largely remains unknown. In the present research, we postulate the contingent nature of brand rituals on consumer purchase. Based on the two countervailing processes—the enhancement of perceived enjoyment and the reduction of perceived autonomy, we suggest that the effectiveness of brand rituals is determined by the interaction between the degree of brand ritual (simple vs. sophisticated) and the brand personality (excitement vs. sincerity). By means of field and laboratory experiments in various product categories (i.e., fruit tea, juice, stationery, and hand cream), we show that for a sincere brand, a sophisticated brand ritual elicits higher consumer purchase than a simple brand ritual only via the process of enhanced enjoyment because its sincerity personality weakens the salience of the process of reduced autonomy. In contrast, for an exciting brand, a sophisticated brand ritual elicits lower consumer purchase than a simple brand ritual via the process of enhanced enjoyment but reduced autonomy (the autonomy route dominates the enjoyment route) because its exciting personality intensifies the salience of the process of reduced autonomy. In simple words, a sophisticated brand ritual benefits a sincere brand, but a simple one benefits an exciting brand. Our findings extend the research on ritual and brand ritual and offer implications for marketing practice regarding how to design a brand ritual more effectively. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/320151 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ran, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wan, WE | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-21T07:47:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-21T07:47:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Psychology & Marketing, 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/320151 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The use of brand rituals is a pervasive tactic in business, but the marketing effectiveness of this practice largely remains unknown. In the present research, we postulate the contingent nature of brand rituals on consumer purchase. Based on the two countervailing processes—the enhancement of perceived enjoyment and the reduction of perceived autonomy, we suggest that the effectiveness of brand rituals is determined by the interaction between the degree of brand ritual (simple vs. sophisticated) and the brand personality (excitement vs. sincerity). By means of field and laboratory experiments in various product categories (i.e., fruit tea, juice, stationery, and hand cream), we show that for a sincere brand, a sophisticated brand ritual elicits higher consumer purchase than a simple brand ritual only via the process of enhanced enjoyment because its sincerity personality weakens the salience of the process of reduced autonomy. In contrast, for an exciting brand, a sophisticated brand ritual elicits lower consumer purchase than a simple brand ritual via the process of enhanced enjoyment but reduced autonomy (the autonomy route dominates the enjoyment route) because its exciting personality intensifies the salience of the process of reduced autonomy. In simple words, a sophisticated brand ritual benefits a sincere brand, but a simple one benefits an exciting brand. Our findings extend the research on ritual and brand ritual and offer implications for marketing practice regarding how to design a brand ritual more effectively. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Psychology & Marketing | - |
dc.title | Enjoyment or autonomy? The interactive effect of brand ritual and brand personality on consumer purchase | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wan, WE: ewwan@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wan, WE=rp01105 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/mar.21731 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 340398 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000862929000001 | - |