The purpose of this study is to explore the different marketing techniques accessible to fashion independent retailers and aiming to strengthen their customer relationship and attract/create a community. It also focuses on understanding the applicability and operationalization of customer relationship management marketing techniques in a specific context, here, a fashion independent retailer. / Program: Master programme in Fashion Management

Facebook全球使用者相當於世界第三大國，目前台灣有超過六百萬會員，其中粉絲專頁為Facebook提供企業或個人成立的社群專頁，粉絲專頁便於聚集相同嗜好的粉絲，特別是企業可利用免費的社交網站空間建立品牌社群，提高知名度與維繫顧客關係；台灣Facebook使用者也紛紛加入各種粉絲專頁，因此本研究以Facebook粉絲專頁使用者為研究對象，應用Mowen（2000）提出的3M層級模型，探究人格特質、動機、消費者創新性、社群認同感、價值意識，對使用者利用粉絲專頁接收資訊及發表意見意圖的影響。除了瞭解研究架構的層級關係，也以結構方程式驗證整體模型的適配度。 本研究結果發現：社群認同感對接收資訊意圖與發表意見意圖皆有正面影響，使用者的價值意識，對接收資訊意圖有正面影響。社群認同感與價值意識，來自人際需求、活動需求及資訊需求。本研究亦在研究架構外，延伸探討粉絲專頁使用者的接收資訊及發表意見意圖，接收資訊意圖是使用者瞭解該品牌並持續購買該品牌產品的重要因素，而發表意見的意圖則影響品牌喜好程度、採用該品牌其他產品，以及通路造訪頻率。以上研究結論可作為粉絲專頁之經營參考。 / Facebook has six million members in Taiwan and the global members have expanded as large as the population of third largest country. Based on the membership, various Faceboook applications have great potentials in advertising and marketing. Fan Page, one of the applications, functioned as an online brand community for the worldwide corporations to promote their new products/ services and manage the customer relationships. The research is based on Mowen (2000) 3M hierarchal model to investigate the influences of fan page users’ traits and motivations on their behavioral intentions. The purpose is to discover the hierarchical relationships of the conceptual framework and then provide the fan page owners with practical suggestions. The research findings including community recognition and value consciousness will positively influence the behavioral intentions. And community recognition and values consciousness are positively influenced by the needs of interpersonal relationship, information, and activity. Therefore, the fan page owners should meet the needs and then increase users’ community recognition and values consciousness by providing information and encouraging users to express their opinions on fan pages.

Submitted by Vitor Moura Lima (vitormlima@gmail.com) on 2015-01-28T18:14:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 VitorLima_Dissertação_MEXFGV_low.pdf: 2263989 bytes, checksum: 4e0a234fad546a31a03c19cff7dafe73 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Janete de Oliveira Feitosa (janete.feitosa@fgv.br) on 2015-02-04T19:26:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VitorLima_Dissertação_MEXFGV_low.pdf: 2263989 bytes, checksum: 4e0a234fad546a31a03c19cff7dafe73 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2015-02-11T17:11:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 VitorLima_Dissertação_MEXFGV_low.pdf: 2263989 bytes, checksum: 4e0a234fad546a31a03c19cff7dafe73 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-11T17:11:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VitorLima_Dissertação_MEXFGV_low.pdf: 2263989 bytes, checksum: 4e0a234fad546a31a03c19cff7dafe73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-18 / The objective of the research was the investigation of the consumer engagement in a virtual brand community, which considered L'Oréal Paris Brasil Facebook Fan Page as a context of observation. On this purpose, by a netnography method, the interactions were collected from members of the website over three months and analyzed from the perspective of the conceptual model presented by Brodie et al. (2011b). During content analysis, which considered Bardin (2007) techniques, the dimensions, processes and sub-processes of the consumer engagement were identified, as proposed by the conceptual model. In addition, the results point to the validation of the model and reinforce the view that the mere participation or involvement doesn't indicates engagement, because it reflects a complex psychological state, context dependent and requires antecedents and consequences processes. Based on these findings, theoretical and practical implications, as well as suggestions for future studies, are discussed. / O estudo objetivou a investigação do fenômeno de engajamento do consumidor em uma comunidade virtual de marca, tendo a Fan Page da L'Oréal Paris Brasil como contexto de observação. Para isso, por meio de método netnográfico, foram coletadas as interações entre os membros da comunidade ao longo de três meses e analisadas sob a perspectiva do modelo conceitual apresentado por Brodie et al. (2011b). Durante a análise de conteúdo, considerando as técnicas propostas por Bardin (2007), foram identificadas as dimensões, os processos e sub-processos do engajamento do consumidor, conforme proposto pelo modelo conceitual. Além disso, os resultados encontrados apontam para a validação do modelo e reforçam a perspectiva de que a simples participação ou envolvimento não pressupõe engajamento, pois este reflete um estado psicológico complexo, dependente de contexto e que necessita de processos antecedentes e consequentes. Com base nos achados, são discutidas as implicações teóricas e práticas, assim como sugestão para futuros estudos sobre o tema.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Mateus Ferreira (2017).pdf: 2637208 bytes, checksum: 72d86778b24ee6f41ebbb06fd605a123 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-27 / Academic research has suggested that social media can improve corporate reputation, sales, return on investment, positive word-of-mouth and create value for consumers. Playing the central role in this relational process, consumer or customer engagement (used interchangeably in this context), emerged as one of the main constructs explaining the success and failure of brands on social media. Considering engagement as a multidimensional construct composed of cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions that varies according to the subject (e.g., customer or employee), focal object (e.g., brand, product or advertising), and context (e.g., retail or online), in this dissertation we make a specific field cutting in order to discuss consumer engagement (subject) with brands (object in Article 2 and 3) or brand communities (object in Article 1) on social media (context). As a general aim of the dissertation, we analyze consumer engagement in different nomological networks, prioritizing its antecedents and mediating role (Article 1) or consequences and its relationship with another measure of engagement (Article 3), in addition to perform a comparative analysis of different scales developed to measure it (Article 2). In the Article 1, we show that the Vivek, Beatty, Dalela, and Morgan (2014) consumer engagement scale, originally developed for application in multiple contexts, can also be applied to multiple objects. We validate this scale in a nomological network with perceived homophily and brand involvement as antecedents and corporate reputation as consequence. Our results show that besides having a direct positive effect on corporate reputation, consumer engagement has a strong mediating role. In the Article 2, our goal is to compare some of the main scales developed to measure consumer engagement: Dessart, Veloutsou, and Morgan-Thomas (2016), Hollebeek, Glynn, and Brodie (2014) and Vivek et al. (2014). To do this, we propose a procedure for the comparative analysis of scales that involves i) the selection, ii) standardization and iii) analysis of measures. We replicate three selected scales with the same object (brand) and context (social media), considering that most of the developed scales were applied to the same object and context. Based on the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis, our results show similarities, differences, and advantages of applying each scale. In Article 3 we jointly analyze two streams of consumer engagement studies by considering brand engagement in self-concept (BESC) as a measure of engagement with brands in general (Sprott, Czellar, & Spangenberg, 2009) and consumer engagement with a specific brand Vivek et al., 2014), and how the latter impacts the perceived value of consumers and corporate reputation. By means of the multigroup analysis with samplings carried out in Brazil and the United States, our results showed that in addition to excellent adjustment, both at the model level and at the path level there was no difference between the groups, which indicates the cross-cultural invariance in the structural model. Finally, in Chapter 5 we synthesize the conclusions of the dissertation. / Pesquisa acadêmicas sugerem que as mídias sociais podem melhorar a sua reputação corporativa, vendas, retorno sobre o investimento, boca-a-boca positivo e criar valor para os consumidores. Desempenhando o papel central neste processo relacional, o engajamento do consumidor ou cliente (usados como sinônimos neste contexto), emergiu como um dos principais construtos que explicam o sucesso ou fracasso de marcas nas mídias sociais. Considerando o engajamento como um construto multidimensional composto por dimensões cognitiva, afetiva e comportamental que varia de acordo com o sujeito (ex. consumidor ou empregado), objeto focal (ex. marca, produto ou propaganda) e contexto (ex. varejo ou online), nesta tese nós fazemos um corte mais específico do campo e para discutir o engajamento do consumidor (sujeito) com marcas (objeto no Artigo 2 e 3) ou com a comunidade de marca (objeto no Artigo 1) em mídias sociais (contexto). Como objetivo geral da tese, nós analisamos o engajamento do consumidor em diferentes redes nomológicas, priorizando seus antecedentes e papel mediador (Artigo 1), ou consequentes e sua relação com outra medida de engajamento (Artigo 3), além de realizar uma análise comparativa de diferentes escalas desenvolvidas para medi-lo (Artigo 2). No Artigo 1, nós mostramos que a escala de engajamento do consumidor da Vivek, Beatty, Dalela e Morgan (2014), originalmente desenvolvida para aplicação em múltiplos contextos, também pode ser aplicado a múltiplos objetos. Nós validamos esta escala em uma rede nomológica com homofilia percebida e envolvimento com marca como antecedentes e reputação corporativa como consequente. Nossos resultados mostram que além de ter efeito positivo direto na reputação corporativa, o engajamento do consumidor tem um forte papel mediador. No Artigo 2, o nosso objetivo é comparar algumas das principais escalas desenvolvidas para medir o engajamento do consumidor: Dessart, Veloutsou e Morgan-Thomas (2016), Hollebeek, Glynn e Brodie (2014) e Vivek et al. (2014). Para fazer isso, nós propomos um procedimento para análise comparativa de escalas que envolve i) a seleção, ii) padronização e iii) análise das medidas. Nós replicamos três escalas selecionadas com um mesmo objeto (marca) e contexto (social media), considerando que a maioria das escalas desenvolvidas foram aplicadas para este mesmo objeto e contexto. Baseado nas análises da Teoria Clássica dos Testes (TCT) e na Teoria de Resposta ao Item (TRI), nossos resultados mostram similaridades, diferenças e vantagens da aplicação de cada escala. No Artigo 3 nós analisamos conjuntamente duas correntes de estudo do engajamento do consumidor ao considerar engajamento com marca no autoconceito (BESC) como uma medida de engajamento com marcas em geral (Sprott, Czellar, & Spangenberg, 2009) e engajamento do consumidor com uma marca específica (Vivek et al., 2014), e como o último impacta no valor percebido dos consumidores e na reputação corporativa. Por meio da análise multigrupo com amostragens realizadas no Brasil e Estados Unidos, nossos resultados mostraram que além de excelente ajuste, tanto no nível do modelo como no nível de caminho não houve diferença entre os grupos, o que indica a invariância intercultural dos grupos no modelo estrutural. Por fim, no Capítulo 5 nós sintetizamos as conclusões da dissertação.

Submitted by Rodrigo Menezes (costa.menezes@gmail.com) on 2013-08-16T21:54:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 O FORTE DO MERCADO.pdf: 15240954 bytes, checksum: d62f5920df8faee6bdd9f5a4f00ac4cf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Janete de Oliveira Feitosa (janete.feitosa@fgv.br) on 2013-08-16T21:58:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 O FORTE DO MERCADO.pdf: 15240954 bytes, checksum: d62f5920df8faee6bdd9f5a4f00ac4cf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-08-22T12:40:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 O FORTE DO MERCADO.pdf: 15240954 bytes, checksum: d62f5920df8faee6bdd9f5a4f00ac4cf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T12:41:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 O FORTE DO MERCADO.pdf: 15240954 bytes, checksum: d62f5920df8faee6bdd9f5a4f00ac4cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-11 / This research is contextualized in the current domestic scenario: Brazil is going through a unique moment that will culminate in two athletic events of worldwide repercussions: the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. These events impact several areas, including the fitness industry, which in its expansion takes advantage of the visibility generated by such events. With that in mind, the objective of this research was to analyze alternative business models in the fitness industry so as to contribute to its expansion. The alternative model selected was CrossFit, which international growth positions it as the unconventional fitness option of greatest expression, although it is not well known in Brazil. / Esta pesquisa está contextualizada no cenário nacional atual: o Brasil passa por um momento singular que culminará em dois eventos esportivos de repercussão mundial: a Copa do Mundo de Futebol em 2014 e as Olimpíadas em 2016. Estes eventos geram impactos nas mais diversas áreas, inclusive na indústria de fitness que, em sua expansão, aproveita a visibilidade gerada por tais acontecimentos. Tendo isto em vista, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar modelos alternativos de atuação no setor de fitness de maneira a contribuir para sua expansão. O modelo alternativo selecionado foi o CrossFit, cujo crescimento internacional o posiciona como a opção de fitness não convencional de maior expressão, ainda que pouco conhecido no Brasil.