THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN

Purpose: The concept of brand loyalty is of critical importance to the business as it plays a dominant role in providing competitive advantages for the companies and brands in devising their marketing strategies. With the advent of modern digital platforms of consumer interaction with the brands...

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Main Authors: Midhat Nadeem, Masood, Muhammad AsadUllah, Dr. Muhammad Wasim Akram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMER Consultancy 2021-01-01
Series:Reviews of Management Sciences
Online Access:https://rmsjournal.com/index.php/admin/article/view/56
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author Midhat Nadeem
Masood
Muhammad AsadUllah
Dr. Muhammad Wasim Akram
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Masood
Muhammad AsadUllah
Dr. Muhammad Wasim Akram
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description Purpose: The concept of brand loyalty is of critical importance to the business as it plays a dominant role in providing competitive advantages for the companies and brands in devising their marketing strategies. With the advent of modern digital platforms of consumer interaction with the brands, the focus of marketing is shifting towards relationships from the traditional approach of marketing mix. So, the emphasis is made by researchers on the determinants and approaches of building relationships between consumer and brand that eventually foster brand loyalty. Methodology: Sample size for this study was 160 with a respondent response rate of 94.3 %. Survey method through questionnaire was adopted to collect data for this study. Constructs were adopted from relevant and established literature. It had 5 items related to demographic based on nominal scale. Additionally, it had 42 items related to the prime objectives of the study. It was based on 7 points grading scale. After preliminary analysis including normality, validity and reliability, an analysis of multiple regression was carried out to test the desired hypothesis. Findings: The study found that brand trust was the strongest predictor of consumers’ brand loyalty towards a particular preferred brand, followed by brand relationship quality, perceived quality and brand identification. The study has taken a narrow perspective with limited number of variables. Further studies would incorporate higher number of variables. Additionally, other studies could incorporate the mediating and moderating roles of independent variables and demographic & other factors. Conclusion: The firm should focus to enhance the trust related to brand among customers to stabilize the consumers’ brand loyalty.
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spelling doaj.art-38aadb66efe34e78b58ded32b24ee2db2022-12-22T00:10:23ZengBMER ConsultancyReviews of Management Sciences2709-96012709-961X2021-01-0112THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTANMidhat Nadeem0Masood1Muhammad AsadUllah2Dr. Muhammad Wasim Akram3Institute of Business ManagementIoBMInstitute of Business ManagementScientia Academy, Malaysia Purpose: The concept of brand loyalty is of critical importance to the business as it plays a dominant role in providing competitive advantages for the companies and brands in devising their marketing strategies. With the advent of modern digital platforms of consumer interaction with the brands, the focus of marketing is shifting towards relationships from the traditional approach of marketing mix. So, the emphasis is made by researchers on the determinants and approaches of building relationships between consumer and brand that eventually foster brand loyalty. Methodology: Sample size for this study was 160 with a respondent response rate of 94.3 %. Survey method through questionnaire was adopted to collect data for this study. Constructs were adopted from relevant and established literature. It had 5 items related to demographic based on nominal scale. Additionally, it had 42 items related to the prime objectives of the study. It was based on 7 points grading scale. After preliminary analysis including normality, validity and reliability, an analysis of multiple regression was carried out to test the desired hypothesis. Findings: The study found that brand trust was the strongest predictor of consumers’ brand loyalty towards a particular preferred brand, followed by brand relationship quality, perceived quality and brand identification. The study has taken a narrow perspective with limited number of variables. Further studies would incorporate higher number of variables. Additionally, other studies could incorporate the mediating and moderating roles of independent variables and demographic & other factors. Conclusion: The firm should focus to enhance the trust related to brand among customers to stabilize the consumers’ brand loyalty. https://rmsjournal.com/index.php/admin/article/view/56
spellingShingle Midhat Nadeem
Masood
Muhammad AsadUllah
Dr. Muhammad Wasim Akram
THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
Reviews of Management Sciences
title THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
title_full THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
title_fullStr THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
title_full_unstemmed THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
title_short THE IMPACT OF BRAND TRUST AND BRAND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY ON BRAND LOYALTY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING MARKET LIKE PAKISTAN
title_sort impact of brand trust and brand relationship quality on brand loyalty in the context of emerging market like pakistan
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