The Impact of Brand Identification, Brand Equity, Brand Reputation on Brand Loyalty: Mediating Role of Brand Affect in Pakistan

Tayyaba Mahmood, Shumaila Qaseem, Qazi Muhammad Ali, Hafiz Fawad Ali, Asad Afzal Humayon and Amna Gohar

Business and Management Research, 2018, vol. 7, issue 4, 46-52

Abstract: Brand loyalty has been an important factor for quite a while in marketing structure of the organizations. Organizations tend to achieve brand loyalty through employing different strategies and by engaging customers to produce a sense of belongingness among them regarding the brand. One of the major sector that has shown a great trend and growth in recent era is the apparel industry of Pakistan. However, little studies have tried to conceptualize and check the influence of brand related concepts on the brand loyalty in Pakistan. Current study has tried to check the influence of Brand Reputation, Brand Identification, Brand Equity and Brand Effect on Brand Loyalty. An important contribution of the study was to consider the brand affect as the mediating variable among the Brand Reputation, Brand Identification, Brand Equity and Brand Loyalty. 180 questionnaires were distributed among the students of the universities and the 166 valid questionnaires were considered for the data analysis giving use response rate of 92%. Correlational and regression analysis was used to check the influence of the independent variables on the dependent variable while package of Preacher and Hayes 2016 was used for the mediation analysis. Limitations and Future Directions have been discussed in the study as well.

Date: 2018
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