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...

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...

This research examines how brand psychological ownership, brand intimacy, and brand trust affect customer brand engagement and how customer brand engagement influences purchase intentions. Utilizing a quantitative approach, the study investigates the mediating role of customer brand engagement....

Objectives The main objective of this study was to examine the role of CSR as a strategic lever in shaping the diplomatic efforts of globalized companies operating in Algeria's mining sector. It focuses on analyzing how CSR can contribute to the enhancement and reinforcement of the brand image...

This research explores the language features used by leading consumer brands with successful marketing in their promotional messages. Coca-Cola, McDonald's, PepsiCo, Mondelez, and Unilever were selected because they appear in Effie's Most Effective Marketers' Index and are active on a range of...

In the current disruptive business landscape, there is a disconnect between the practical traction of digital revolution approaches and their academic rigour, exacerbated by a lack of collaboration between practitioners and academics. In this study, this issue is addressed by systematically...