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Tesi etd-01282019-142157


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di dottorato di ricerca
Autore
MAZZOLI, VALENTINA
URN
etd-01282019-142157
Titolo
NEGATIVE CUSTOMER-BRAND RELATIONSHIPS: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS RELATED TO BRAND TRANSGRESSIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION
Settore scientifico disciplinare
SECS-P/08
Corso di studi
ECONOMIA AZIENDALE E MANAGEMENT
Relatori
tutor Prof. Donvito, Raffaele
Parole chiave
  • social media communication
  • negative emotions
  • customer-brand relationships
  • brand transgression
  • unethical advertising
Data inizio appello
07/02/2019
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
07/02/2089
Riassunto
The present dissertation aims to contribute to the literature on negative customer-brand relationships, by addressing the issue of brand transgressions in advertising in social media communication. Under the theoretical lenses of the cognitive theory of emotions, consumers’ emotional and behavioural reactions to brand transgressions in advertising are investigated. To this goal, a first explorative study through in-depth interviews, and two online experiments were conducted. Main findings revealed that brand transgressions in advertising may seriously affect the quality of the customer-brand relationship leading to negative attitude toward the ad and the brand when moral outrage mediate this relationship and to brand avoidance, negative word-of-mouth, and other protest behaviours (i.e. boycotting, participation to online anti-brand communities) when brand hate mediates this relationship. Brand aversion is amplified by the presence of user’s negative comments referred to the ad and the brand. Managerial and theoretical implications are discussed at the end of this dissertation.
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