Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences

Purpose – This study seeks to provide analytical insights into corporate brand-rapture (CBR), its antecedents and consequences, and contributes to methodology for modeling CBRs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper defines the construct and develops a theory that explains how corporate brand-rapt...

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Main Authors: Lloyd, Stephen, Woodside, Arch
Format: Journal Article
Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6303
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description Purpose – This study seeks to provide analytical insights into corporate brand-rapture (CBR), its antecedents and consequences, and contributes to methodology for modeling CBRs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper defines the construct and develops a theory that explains how corporate brand-rapture works and is testable empirically. Findings – CBR merits further investigation as a potentially valid, operational concept in marketing that underpins the conscious and unconscious drivers of the corporate brand's strongest stakeholders and that lays the foundations of research into corporate brand-rapture communication. Research limitations/implications – The paper, while remaining conceptual, identifies a dynamic concept of interest to researchers and to corporate brand marketing management and proposes seven fundamental propositions for modeling CBR. Practical implications – The paper provides researchers and corporate brand marketing with a more rigorous understanding of the foundations of engagement with a corporate brand. Originality/value – This paper is the first so far on CBR theory and provides insights that are important to corporate brand marketers and their communications strategies.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-63032018-03-29T09:05:40Z Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences Lloyd, Stephen Woodside, Arch Marketing communications Co-creation Corporate branding Brand-rapture Stakeholder engagement Purpose – This study seeks to provide analytical insights into corporate brand-rapture (CBR), its antecedents and consequences, and contributes to methodology for modeling CBRs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper defines the construct and develops a theory that explains how corporate brand-rapture works and is testable empirically. Findings – CBR merits further investigation as a potentially valid, operational concept in marketing that underpins the conscious and unconscious drivers of the corporate brand's strongest stakeholders and that lays the foundations of research into corporate brand-rapture communication. Research limitations/implications – The paper, while remaining conceptual, identifies a dynamic concept of interest to researchers and to corporate brand marketing management and proposes seven fundamental propositions for modeling CBR. Practical implications – The paper provides researchers and corporate brand marketing with a more rigorous understanding of the foundations of engagement with a corporate brand. Originality/value – This paper is the first so far on CBR theory and provides insights that are important to corporate brand marketers and their communications strategies. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6303 10.1108/MIP-04-2013-0064 Emerald Group Publishing Limited restricted
spellingShingle Marketing communications
Co-creation
Corporate branding
Brand-rapture
Stakeholder engagement
Lloyd, Stephen
Woodside, Arch
Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title_full Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title_fullStr Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title_full_unstemmed Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title_short Corporate Brand Rapture Theory: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences
title_sort corporate brand rapture theory: antecedents, processes, and consequences
topic Marketing communications
Co-creation
Corporate branding
Brand-rapture
Stakeholder engagement
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6303