by Shum, Wing Fai David, Tsang, Leung Lun Lennon. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-94). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Advertisement Variation --- p.1 / Research Objective and Title --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5 / Background of the Ban on Cigarette Television Advertising --- p.5 / Situation after Bans in Other Nations --- p.8 / Rationale of the Research --- p.9 / Chapter III. --- THE RESEARCH HYPOTHESES --- p.11 / The Repetition-Variation Hypoptheses and the Elaboration Likelihood Model --- p.11 / Research Hypotheses --- p.14 / Chapter IV. --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.17 / Causal Laboratory Experiment --- p.17 / Subjects and Design of the Experiment --- p.18 / Procedure of the Experiment --- p.20 / Non-experimental Independent Variables --- p.21 / Experimental Independent Variables ´ؤ´ؤX --- p.22 / Dependent Measures -- Oij --- p.23 / Consumer Research --- p.24 / Questionnaire Design --- p.24 / Sample Design --- p.25 / Chapter V. --- RESULTS DISCUSSIONS --- p.26 / Results Discussions of the Causal Laboratory Experiment --- p.26 / Brand Name Recall --- p.26 / Overall Attitudes toward the Cigarette Brand --- p.28 / Results Discussion of the Consumer Research --- p.31 / Brand Awareness of the Cigarette and the Corresponding Extended Product --- p.31 / Marlboro Classics --- p.36 / Kent Leisure --- p.37 / Mild Seven Freedom Holidays --- p.39 / Overall Feeling towards the Advertisements --- p.41 / Recall of the Brand's Cigarette when Viewing the Advertisement --- p.42 / Purchase Intent --- p.43 / Chapter VI. --- COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.45 / Persuasive Process --- p.45 / Information Processing --- p.47 / Brand Processing --- p.47 / Nonbrand Processing --- p.48 / Implications from Laboratory Experiment --- p.49 / Limitations --- p.50 / Implications from Consumer Research --- p.51 / Brand Product Extension --- p.53 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.56 / APPENDIX / Chapter 1. --- MEDIA EXPENDITURE FOR 1990 一一 CIGARETTE --- p.59 / Chapter 2. --- PROCEDURE FOR THE EXPERIMENT --- p.60 / Chapter 3 . --- OBSERVATIONS OF THE DEPENDENT MEASURES --- p.63 / Chapter 4. --- QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH --- p.65 / Chapter 5. --- SCORES OF TOP-OF-MIND AWARENESS --- p.70 / Chapter 6. --- PERCENTAGE OF RESPONDENTS WHO KNOW ABOUT THE PRODUCT EXTENSION OF THE CIGARETTE BRANDS THEY HAVE NAMED IN Q1 --- p.71 / Chapter 7. --- PERCENTAGE OF RESPONDENTS WHO HAVE SEEN ADVERTISEMENTS OF THE EXTENDED PRODUCT --- p.72 / Chapter 8. --- PERCENTAGE BREAKDOWN OF CHANNELS FROM WHICH THE RESPONDENTS SAW THE ADVERTSIEMENTS --- p.73 / Chapter 9. --- ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ADVERTISEMENT OF MARLBORO CLASSICS --- p.74 / Chapter 10. --- ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ADVERTISEMENT OF KENT LEISURE --- p.77 / Chapter 11. --- ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ADVERTISEMENT OF MILD SEVEN FREEDOM HOLIDAYS --- p.80 / Chapter 12. --- OVERALL FEELING TOWARDS THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE EXTENDED PRODUCT --- p.83 / Chapter 13. --- PURCHASE INTENT OF THE CORRESPONDING CIGARETTE --- p.84 / Chapter 14. --- PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DUMMY PRINT-ADVERTISEMENTS --- p.86 / Chapter 15. --- PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PRINT-ADVERTISEMENT OF THE TESTING CIGARETTE --- p.91 / Chapter 16. --- PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PRINT-ADVERTISEMENT OF THE EXTENDED PRODUCT --- p.92 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.93

This study examines the effects of two types of consumer knowledge, product and brand knowledge, on consumer fit perceptions between an extension and its parent brand, so as to further investigate the role of consumer knowledge in brand extension evaluations. Based on the reviewed literature four hypotheses were proposed. The first two hypotheses predicted that both product and brand knowledge has an impact of consumer perceived fit between an extension and its parent brand. The other two hypotheses proposed that product knowledge affect more on the fit perceptions between a functional brand and its extension, while brand knowledge affect more on the fit perceptions between a prestige brand and its extension. An experiment was performed to examine these hypothesized relationships. Two hypotheses related to brand knowledge are supported, while the other two hypotheses related to product knowledge are not supported statistically. The results reveal that product and brand knowledge have different effects on consumer fit perceptions between an extension and its parent brand in terms of different brand types, functional vs. prestige brand. The experimental findings demonstrate that brand knowledge has an impact on consumer fit perceptions between an extension and its parent brand, and its effect dominant in prestige brand extension evaluations.

�Every poet who takes language seriously is working against a culture of clear marketable meanings and commodified production� states New Zealand novelist, essayist and poet Gregory O�Brien. This statement is the motivation for research that is explored in a collaborative ethnographic study of brand culture perceptions in New Zealand. It takes its inspiration from The Poetics of Space (Bachelard, 1978) and provides intimate lyrical insights into the experience of brands and brandscapes. Gregory O�Brien describes the artists that inspire him as: �Those who resolutely stand on their own creative terms, working towards their own objectives, as oblivious as they can be to any market forces.� O�Brien�s observations are relevant to the research project in two essential ways: first to cast light on a shared cultural commodity construct such as a brand from its proposed opposite cultural site of individual imagination and secondly, to accept the poetic in the form of the undiluted voice of vocational poets as valuable media in their own right to achieve insightful interpretations. Critical marketing projects have the duty to generate an alternative �marketing gaze� sufficient to the task of �revelation� (Brownile & Hewer, 2007). With regards to individual artists and poets specifically, critical marketing concepts implicitly pose the main research question as to the scenarios that are conceivably available to consumers: how does �working against marketable meanings� imaginatively work? The project proposes the new construct of co-imagination as the co-active mental and spiritual engagement of consumers with the cultural artefacts of brandscapes that invite individual meaning making. It substantiates this individuality in a poetic evocation of brandscapes by thirteen artists. It analyses the holistic imaginative process on the basis of mental models, strategic scenarios and evocative aesthetics, in order to assess how talented consumers work against marketable meaning. It subsequently offers the relationship of co-imagination with existing co-optive concepts in marketing, literature and consumer behaviour, such as co-creation (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004), co-performance (Deighton, 1992) and co-duction (Booth, 1988). It results in a collaborative artistic inquiry that assembles individual evocations of enchantment and disenchantment with the beauty and ugliness of brandscapes, through newly created poetry. The research introduces the new concepts of aesthetic scarcity and aesthetic community and in its collaborative method of inquiry offers an alternative to a poetic tradition in consumer behaviour of the poet / researcher conflation (Sherry & Schouten, 2002). As a result, the project complements the understanding of the individual meaning-making process in brand culture and is relevant to both practitioners and researchers in consumer behaviour and brand strategy. The design of the project included a four month research journey that covered the North and the South Island of New Zealand with the objective of meeting a variety of poets in their local inspirational environments and brandscapes and catalyse an unusual creative cooperation of highly individual radical artists. In the thick description and analyses of the extensive field research, the project implicitly adds to existing work on brand culture (Schroeder, Salzer Morling, & Askegaard, 2006), brand aesthetics (Saizer-Mörling & Strannegård, 2004) and the relationship between artists and brands (Schroeder, 2005). The research includes design elements based on romantic pragmatism (Rorty, 2007a) and cognitive aesthetics (R. H. Brown, 1977), both post-romantic concepts that explore aesthetic perception as perspectival knowledge and aesthetic distance as a means to transcend the dichotomy of objectivity and subjectivity.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Administrative Studies. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-116). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR46022

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 18, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Jung Ha-Brookshire. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

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This investigation probes the perceptions of consumers as well as marketers with regard to the branding of fast moving consumer goods in South African retail chain stores. While much research has been conducted on branding, this investigation will focus on the extent to which marketers’ perceptions and consumers’ perceptions converge with a view to maximizing the mutual benefits to be derived from marketing strategies within a contemporary South African environment. The extent to which South African marketers’ perceptions and consumers’ perceptions converge to promote brand equity is postulated in the brand equity optimization model. The research commenced with an exhaustive literature survey followed by an empirical survey. The fieldwork for this survey was conducted nationally among the three major retail groups in South Africa and among consumers living in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The findings from the literature survey indicate that both local and international companies have realized the potential of investing resources in brand building activities. These findings have provided evidence to suggest that building brand equity for fast moving consumer goods impacts positively on the sales and the popularity of these products. The findings of the empirical research illustrates that the typical South African consumer has become brand conscious and brand building activities encourage them to purchase these products. The findings from the consumer survey were supported by the investigation conducted among retail chain stores who agreed that building brand equity results in increased sales and the popularity of the products concerned. Consumers have a preference for manufacturer branded products but house brands are selected primarily because they are cheaper. Manufacturer brands are viewed by consumers as having the most innovative packaging, excellent promotional support and consistently good quality while retail chain stores believe that manufacturer brands lead the way in terms of brand building activities, packaging innovation, promotional support and quality. The results of both surveys illustrate that retail chain stores and consumers share similar viewpoints with regards to the branding, packaging, pricing, promotions and quality attributes of fast moving consumer goods in terms of optimizing brand equity. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2007.

In April 2006 the new brand positioning for Standard Bank was revealed to staff and the general public. The new brand positioning focused mainly on employees and customers and to a lesser extent operational efficiency. The study attempts to find what meanings the employees of Standard Bank made of this new brand positioning through a qualitative case study methodology. As part of the study, theoretical models and concepts covering the brand, brand positioning, living the brand, employee segmentation and the 3-phased approach to implement the programme were reviewed. A qualitative research study was conducted whereby one-on-one interviews were held with managerial and non-managerial employees at Standard Bank. The research is therefore a phenomenological investigation of the business problem statement, that is, the re-positioning of the brand from simpler to better, faster as well as inspired and motivated. The research findings were that the brand repositioning did not have a negative impact on employee perceptions. However, it was found that employees did not understand what the brand stands for and were having problems delivering on the new brand promise. To improve the level of understanding by the employees so that the new brand positioning can influence employee behaviour, the researcher recommended applying the 3- phased approach in implementing an effective "living the brand" programme. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.