Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity

Organizations like banks with the ability to develop an understanding of and capability in predicting customer's behaviour are organisations that have an edge over their competitors in the marketplace. One way of how organization's competitive advantage can be achieved is when they can...

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Main Authors: Vahdati, Hojjat, Mousavi Nejad, Seyed Hadi
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Language:English
Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2016
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description Organizations like banks with the ability to develop an understanding of and capability in predicting customer's behaviour are organisations that have an edge over their competitors in the marketplace. One way of how organization's competitive advantage can be achieved is when they can determine their customer's purchase intention of products. This study attempts to investigate if brand personality, e-WOM and brand equity are determining factors that influence bank's customers purchase intention which can lead to their purchase decision later. Here, Mellat Bank in Iran is used as a case study and the bank's customers participated as respondents in a survey. The study tested seven hypotheses using structural equation modeling techniques. The fndings show that brand personality, e-WOM and brand equity have positive and signifcant effects on customer's purchase intentions. The results also reveal that these factors have positive internal effects on each other. In addition, e-WOM and brand equity show positive mediator roles.
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spelling usm-366692017-09-20T01:05:06Z http://eprints.usm.my/36669/ Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity Vahdati, Hojjat Mousavi Nejad, Seyed Hadi HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Organizations like banks with the ability to develop an understanding of and capability in predicting customer's behaviour are organisations that have an edge over their competitors in the marketplace. One way of how organization's competitive advantage can be achieved is when they can determine their customer's purchase intention of products. This study attempts to investigate if brand personality, e-WOM and brand equity are determining factors that influence bank's customers purchase intention which can lead to their purchase decision later. Here, Mellat Bank in Iran is used as a case study and the bank's customers participated as respondents in a survey. The study tested seven hypotheses using structural equation modeling techniques. The fndings show that brand personality, e-WOM and brand equity have positive and signifcant effects on customer's purchase intentions. The results also reveal that these factors have positive internal effects on each other. In addition, e-WOM and brand equity show positive mediator roles. Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/36669/1/aamj21022016_1.pdf Vahdati, Hojjat and Mousavi Nejad, Seyed Hadi (2016) Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 21 (2). pp. 1-26. ISSN 1394-2603 http://web.usm.my/aamj/21022016/aamj21022016_1.pdf
spellingShingle HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
Vahdati, Hojjat
Mousavi Nejad, Seyed Hadi
Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title_full Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title_fullStr Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title_full_unstemmed Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title_short Brand Personality Toward Customer Purchase Intention: The Intermediate Role Of Electronic Word-Of-Mouth And Brand Equity
title_sort brand personality toward customer purchase intention: the intermediate role of electronic word-of-mouth and brand equity
topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
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