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Brand community coping

Weijo, H., Bean, J. & Rintamäki, J. (2017). Brand community coping. Journal of Business Research, 94, pp. 128-136. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.054

Abstract

The successful alignment of co-creative practices between brand communities and marketers promises many benefits, including stronger consumer brand relationships. Yet recent research has identified the inherent difficulty of creating or maintaining such an alignment. This study builds on these cautionary tales to show how marketer-initiated brand transgressions impact communal brand relationships built on extensive histories of successful co-creation. Building theory through netnographic inquiry of the drama surrounding a poorly managed brand transgression in a video game brand community and a counterexample of positive marketer action, this study introduces a theoretical model of brand community coping and its four stages of instigation, distillation, mobilization, and remembrance. Overall, the study provides new insights on brand transgressions, consumer coping, brand relationships, and co-creation.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2017 Elsevier Inc. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publisher Keywords: Brand community, Consumer coping, Brand transgression, Co-creation, Netnography
Departments: Bayes Business School > Management
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