Brand experience and customer equity prediction
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2016
Abstract
The objective of this research is to explore the relationship between brand experience and customer equity (value equity, brand equity, and relationship equity). We examine the impacts of different contact points' experiences (media contact, physical environment contact, people contact, and product usage contact) and different dimensions of brand experience on customer equity. Further we investigate the possible moderating effects of different brand positioning and strategies-hedonic and utilitarian, on this relationship. The data which are collected via online survey includes 410 observations with brand experience and 83 without brand experience, 493 valid samples in total. We found that positive and strong brand experience is the key factor for building strong customer equity. Although the impacts of all four contact points' brand experiences are significant, product usage contact has the most powerful influence on customer equity and its individual drivers. The results also indicate that the different brand positioning strategies do have moderating effects. For utilitarian brand, only brand experience at product usage contact point has significant impact on customer equity and its three drivers. For hedonic brand, all four contact points' experiences have significant relationships with customer equity. Finally, the four experience dimensions (sensory, affective, intellectual, and behavioral) have different impacts on customer equity and its three drivers at different experience contact points.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Advances in Business and Management Forecasting
Volume
11
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Chen, Arthur Cheng Hsui, Shaw K. Chen, and Chien Lin Ma. "Brand experience and customer equity prediction." Advances in Business and Management Forecasting 11, (2016): 19-38. doi: 10.1108/S1477-407020160000011003.