Are You Like Me? I Will Be Attached to You. Empirical Findings from an International Research About Consumer, Brand and Store Personality Congruence in Luxury Sector.

Raffaele Donvito*, Gaetano Aiello, Bruno Godey, Daniele Pederzoli, Klaus Peter Wiedmann, Nadine Hennings, Christiane Klarmann, Priscilla Chan, Chris Halliburton, Junji Tsuchiya, Taro Koyama, Irina Ivanovna Skorobogatykh, Bart Weitz, Hyunjoo Oh, Mike Ewing, Joshua Newton, Yuri Lee, Li Fei, Cindy Rong Chen

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Abstract

The paper analyses the phenomena of congruence between consumer, brand and store personality and its effect on attachment to brands in luxury sector at an international level. From a theoretical point of view, human personality, brand personality, store personality, congruence and attachment constructs are considered. From an empirical point of view, the paper presents the results of a quantitative primary research run on a sample young people “luxury experienced” from 10 countries. The empirical research considers specifically 6 luxury brands. In term of results this paper presents the validation of the personality congruence measurement scale proposed by the authors; furthermore the research highlights the existence of a correlation between personality congruence and brand attachment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDevelopments in Marketing Science
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages295-304
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Publication series

NameDevelopments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
ISSN (Print)2363-6165
ISSN (Electronic)2363-6173

Keywords

  • Brand Personality
  • Consumer Research
  • Human Personality
  • Luxury Consumption
  • Luxury Good

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Marketing
  • Strategy and Management

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