1. Brand origin: conceptualization
... perform for consumers. It is conjectured that brands add value to consumer goods by supplying meaning (McCracken, 1993), and this appears to be borne out by a recent study which found that consumers throughout the world saw less differentiation between products which advertised using performance appeals than those that used image appeals (BBDO Worldwide, 1988). Several aspects of ... this, besides the one proffered by Tanaka (1993), may lie in the consumer ethnocentrism of the Japanese. Consumer ethnocentrism has been defined by Shimp and Sharma (1987), following the sociological literat...
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