Traditional branding approaches take too long to react to today's dynamic environment. Agile branding offers a promising approach and might be the contemporary answer to the demands of our digitalized world. While scientists state that an agile approach to branding is essential nowadays, there...

This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on brand management and value creation, proposing a comprehensive competitiveness framework for firms. Utilizing a panel dataset spanning 26 years across 30 countries, Arellano-Bond and Blundell-Bond System GMM...

Purpose - Social media has transformed brand communication and how consumers perceive brands. While social media influencers (SMIs) have emerged as key players in digital marketing, their impact on brand equity within the automobile sector remains underexplored. This study examines the impact of...

Brand capital - an intangible asset that differentiates a firm's products - has grown in recent decades, alongside the rise of intangible investments and the decline in the labor share. Trademarks are legal claims on brand capital and are actively traded across firms, providing a setting to...

This study investigates the psychological and relational pathways through which Generation Z consumers' value consciousness fosters store loyalty toward private labels (PLs) in Turkey's hard-discount retail sector. Grounded in social exchange theory (SET), the study explores the dual mediating...

The purpose of this research is to investigate and explain the extent to which artificial intelligence stimuli and social behavior determinants influence online impulse buying in Pakistan's e-retail sector positioning brand trust as central pathway mechanism among generation Z. Drawing on the...

The world in constant crisis: agility as the key for brands -- Past, present, future: a holistic perspective for brands -- The relationship between brands, advertising, and society -- The new playing fields: People, Planet, Profit -- Of humans and machines: brand management in the age of AI --...

Innovative branding approaches are emerging since the fundamentals of brand management are being called into question. This scenario has been enhanced by COVID-19, which has brought profound impacts from which a different world will emerge. Building on this, the purpose of this study is twofold....

Purpose: This article explores the symbiosis between the fields of responsible leadership and purpose-driven brand building to offer a new, integrated perspective along with strategic guidelines for implementation by leaders in Africa. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual paper is based...

Purpose: This paper seeks to consider the influence of organisational culture and its relationship to employees' perception of the brand of the organisation they work for. It also aims to clarify where the responsibility lies for setting the organisational culture and whether that role is a...

Brands can be one of a company's most valuable intangible assets and a lever to generate value. As a source of added value, a brand should be strategically built and managed. To fully take advantage of the benefits that the brand provides, it is necessary to propose a brand management strategy....

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has extended into creative realms, presenting opportunities for creative collaboration between human brand professionals and AI in support of brand voice efforts. However, there remains little clarity regarding the implementation...

This research aims to examine whether employer branding (EB) activities are related to the ranking of the Most Desirable Employer in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and to explore the correlation between EB, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and organisational representation on social media....

This study employs EEG and eye-tracking to assess how brand equity, creative complexity, and spatial layout influence implicit consumer responses to point-of-sale (POS) beer advertisements. Through the theoretical lens of predictive coding and processing fluency, laboratory testing with Serbian...

Non-verbal communication tools, such as emojis, are an important means of persuasion for food delivery applications (FDAs). Using social exchange theory, the current research, conducted in India given its fast-growing FDA category, examines the impact of emojis on the different components of...

Digital transformation has re-engineered tourism marketing and how destination branding competes for tourist attention, yet scholarship offers little systematic quantification of these changes. Drawing on 160 peer-reviewed studies published between 1990 and 2025, we combine grounded-theory...

This study attempts to reveal whether smart tourism practices in the destination of Istanbul have an impression on destination brand equity (DBE) and destination competitiveness (DC). The sample group of the study consisted of domestic tourists visiting Istanbul. The data were obtained through a...

This study investigates the economic role of wine tourism in Nemea, Greece, a prominent Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) wine-producing region. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines interviews with local stakeholders and a structured post-wine-tasting visitor survey to...

When a technology provider (entrant) enters an emerging end market, he may outsource critical components from a competing conventional manufacturer (incumbent) or insource critical components. Under the outsourcing strategy, brand reputation spills over from the incumbent to the entrant-a...

This study analyses how brands' content marketing strategies on social networks influence electronic word of mouth (eWOM), a major predictor of business success that reflects consumer engagement and shapes behaviours such as increased purchase intention, willingness to pay more, reduced...