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- Title
The Value of Brand Fans during a Crisis: Exploring the Roles of Response Strategy, Source, and Brand Identification.
- Authors
Lim, Hayoung Sally; Brown-Devlin, Natalie
- Abstract
Using a two (crisis response strategy: diminish vs. rebuild)×three (source: brand organization vs. brand executive vs. brand fan) experimental design, this study examines how brand fans (i.e., consumers who identify with a brand) can be prompted to protect a brand's reputation during crises and how the selection of a crisis spokesperson can influence consumers' evaluations of the crisis communication. Being buffers for their preferred brands, brand fans are more likely to accept their brand's crisis response and engage in positive electronic word-of-mouth on social media. Brand fans are more likely to evaluate other brand fan's social media accounts as a credible crisis communication source, whereas those who are not brand fans are more likely to evaluate brand and/or brand executives as credible. Findings provide theoretical applications in paracrisis literature pertaining to social media but also practical implications for brand managers to strategically utilize brand fans in crisis communication.
- Subjects
BRAND identification; BRAND equity; CRISIS communication; CONSUMERS' reviews; WORD of mouth advertising
- Publication
International Journal of Business Communication, 2023, Vol 60, Issue 4, p1148
- ISSN
2329-4884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2329488421999699