2.3 Theoretical summary
Theoretical Concepts
Summary
Brand Loyalty
An individual’s different ways of bonding with a certain brand, which can be
drawn to a consumer’s willingness to repurchase a brand or unwillingness to
switch brand (Armstrong et al, 2009).
Behavioral-, Cognitive- and
Emotional Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty divided in order to differentiate between a consumer’s purchase
behavior and what thoughts and feelings a consumer has when making a
decision (Kabiraj & Shanmugan: Roy, 2011).
Product Involvement
An individual’s spent time and energy towards an object, often viewed to
characterize various consumer groups and behavioral habits (Hanzaee et al,
2011)
Facets of product involvement
Kapferer and Laurent’s (1985) five acknowledged, complied facets of interest,
pleasure, sign, risk probability and risk importance which are used to study
product involvement. Furthermore, price has been used as well to study product
involvement (Behe et al, 2015).
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3 Research model and research questions
The authors constructed a research model based on the existing literature. The model
constructed shows the different facets that are intended to explore brand loyalty and landed in
three research questions that needed to be answered in order to meet the purpose.
3.1 Research model
The purpose for this thesis was to explore how low product involvement is related to brand
loyalty since this is an unexplored gap in research. There are researches that examine high
product involvement and its relation to brand loyalty, and this research (Quester & Lim, 2003)
will work as a framework for which to base this thesis on. This will be done by examining the
five facets compiled by Kapferer and Laurent (1985) together with the facet price (Behe et al,
2015). This will be done in order to see how the different facets affect brand loyalty for low
product involvement while also having an open mind for new possible facets, which might be
explored for low involvement products. Brand loyalty was determined from the components
behavioral-, cognitive- and emotional brand loyalty (Kabiraj & Shanmugan, 2011).
The approach is exploratory due to the reason that it is an unexplored gap in research (Quester
& Lim, 2003), and because of that, the study will serve as a starting point for future research
to build on when examining the relationship between low product involvement and brand
loyalty.
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