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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Brand Community
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Utpal M Dholakia
  • René Algesheimer
Editors
  • Richard P Bagozzi
  • Ayalla Ruvio
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed No
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing: Consumer Behaviour
Series Name Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing
ISBN 978-1-405-16178-7
Number 3
Place of Publication New York
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Date 2010
Abstract Text Brand communities offer the promise of a marketing program that is synergistic with the intrinsic motivations, interests, and empowerment of contemporary consumers. Widely applicable and increasingly used by mainstream consumers across a range of product and service categories, they represent avenues for marketers to generate a range of positive outcomes for the firm in cost-effective ways. For consumer researchers, brand communities are venues to study a host of psychological and social issues. In this article, we elaborate on this concept by providing a definition of brand community, introduce and elaborate on different types of brand communities, and examine the consequences of consumer participation in them.
Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444316568
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1002/9781444316568.wiem03050
Other Identification Number merlin-id:910
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