The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role as the backbone of economic in Malaysia.Review of literature had shown that branding is also important to enhance the performance of SMEs.Despite studies on SMEs and branding is on the rise, most of these studies are investigating on the int...
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| author | Ong, Chuan Huat Md. Salleh, Salniza Yusoff, Rushami Zien |
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| description | Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role as the backbone of economic in Malaysia.Review of literature had shown that branding is also important to enhance the performance of SMEs.Despite studies on SMEs and branding is on the rise, most of these studies are investigating on the internal branding from the perspective of ownersmanagers. Few attempts have been made from the perspective of consumers.In addition, emotional benefits are important to create lasting bonding with customers especially in the competitive market such as the food and beverages sector.Hence, this study proposes a social exchange framework to examine the impact of emotional benefits on brand loyalty,
mediated by brand trust. |
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| spelling | uum-224482017-09-20T05:45:13Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22448/ The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia Ong, Chuan Huat Md. Salleh, Salniza Yusoff, Rushami Zien HF Commerce Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role as the backbone of economic in Malaysia.Review of literature had shown that branding is also important to enhance the performance of SMEs.Despite studies on SMEs and branding is on the rise, most of these studies are investigating on the internal branding from the perspective of ownersmanagers. Few attempts have been made from the perspective of consumers.In addition, emotional benefits are important to create lasting bonding with customers especially in the competitive market such as the food and beverages sector.Hence, this study proposes a social exchange framework to examine the impact of emotional benefits on brand loyalty, mediated by brand trust. 2014-08-18 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22448/1/ICBM%202014%20%20251%20256.pdf Ong, Chuan Huat and Md. Salleh, Salniza and Yusoff, Rushami Zien (2014) The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia. In: International Conference on Business Management (ICBM) 2014, 18-19 August 2014, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| spellingShingle | HF Commerce Ong, Chuan Huat Md. Salleh, Salniza Yusoff, Rushami Zien The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title | The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title_full | The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title_short | The direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward SME brands: evidence from consumers in Malaysia |
| title_sort | direct and indirect effects of predictor variables on attitude and behavior loyalty toward sme brands evidence from consumers in malaysia |
| topic | HF Commerce |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22448/1/ICBM%202014%20%20251%20256.pdf |
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