PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR BRAND IMAGE DIMENSIONALITY AND USING VARIOUS TECHNIQUES TO INVESTIGATE AND IMPROVE THE BRAND PERSONALITY

Makarand Upadhyayaè ()
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Makarand Upadhyayaè: College of Business Administration, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Polish Journal of Management Studies, 2012, vol. 6, issue 1, 89-100

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to study the effectiveness of projective techniques in exploring the brand image of ego-sensitive brands, possessing minimal functional differentiation. The paper examines four finest perfume brands. Two metaphor based personification methods-mood-boards and job-sorting are employed to study the association that the participants have with the brands. Both the methods are open ended assignments to decipher how participants think or feel about the research object in question. The study analyses the congruent validity of the two methods and differences in their ability to personify the chosen brands of deu. Both the methods yielded almost similar outcomes, thereby reiterating that the two methods possess congruent validity. The latter part of the paper analyses the brand personality characteristics that were connected to the celebrities and jobs thus connected, as identified in the mood-boards and job-sorting exercise respectively. SWOCC Brand Personality Scale, which is a further elaboration of Aaker’s brand personality research, was used to provide a list of the personality characteristics. The study however faces a limitation of the failure of the translation from the projective results into personality scores dimensions. This raises a serious concern if it is at all possible to validly translate overall projective data into analytical scores and if it is so then what would be the ideal procedure to do this.

Keywords: projective techniques; various techniques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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