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How Well Do Consumer-Brand Relationships Drive Customer Brand Loyalty? Generalizations from a Meta-Analysis of Brand Relationship Elasticities
- Author(s):
- Mansur Khamitov (see profile) , Matthew Thomson, Xin (Shane) Wang
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Business Management
- Subject(s):
- Consumption (Economics), Metadata, Commercial statistics, Product design
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- consumer-brand relationship, customer brand loyalty, brand relationship elasticity, meta-analysis, empirical generalizations, Consumption, Close relationships, Business data
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/x7sa-xq30
- Abstract:
- To advance understanding of how well different types of brand relationships drive customer brand loyalty and to help companies improve the effectiveness of their relationship-building investments, this article conducts a meta-analysis of the link between five consumer-brand relationship constructs and customer brand loyalty. The analysis of 588 elasticities from 290 studies reported in 255 publications over 24 years (n = 348,541 across 46 countries) reveals that the aggregate brand relationship elasticity is .439. More importantly, results demonstrate under what conditions various types of brand relationships increase loyalty. For example, while elasticities are generally highest for love-based and attachment-based brand relationships, the positive influence of brand relationships on customer brand loyalty is stronger in more recent (vs. earlier) years, for non-status (vs. status) and publicly (vs. privately) consumed brands as well as for estimates using attitudinal (vs. behavioral) customer brand loyalty. Overall, the results suggest that brand relationship elasticities vary considerably across brand, loyalty, time, and consumer characteristics. Drawing on these findings, the current research advances implications for managers and scholars and provide avenues for future research.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2019
- Journal:
- Journal of Consumer Research
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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How Well Do Consumer-Brand Relationships Drive Customer Brand Loyalty? Generalizations from a Meta-Analysis of Brand Relationship Elasticities