以信息整合理论为基础,验证了一个跨国并购对本土品牌国际化形象提升效应的模型。发现本土品牌跨国并购对其国际化形象的提升效应来自三方面:一是本土品牌并购前国际化形象的迁移效应;二是被并购方品牌并购前国际化形象的迁移效应;三是消费者对并购事件态度的溢出效应。研究还发现与被并购方品牌相比,本土品牌并购前的国际化形象有更强的迁移效应,这种迁移效应受消费者民族中心主义的负向调节。
Based on information integration theory, this paper tests the enhancing effect of transnational M&A on merger brand's international image. It finds that the merger brand's international image is influenced by its international image before M&A, the merged brand's international image before M&A, and consumers' attitude toward the M&A event. Additionally, it finds the merger brand's international image before M&A has more influence than the merged brand. Consumer's ethnocentrism has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between the merger brand's international image before M&A and after M&A.