尽管品牌的象征性形象已引起理论界和实践界的广泛关注和讨论,但现有研究对构成象征性品牌形象的维度却仍然缺乏系统的分析。这直接导致了理解消费者对象征性品牌的反应以及企业在执行品牌的象征定位战略中的限制。文章通过引入社会心理学中的自我理论,识别和区分了象征性品牌形象的个人、社会、关系和集体四个维度,并通过三项研究开发了一个可靠、有效并可以一般化地应用于不同品牌测量的象征性品牌形象量表。
Although symbolic brand image has attracted enormous attention and discussions,there is a lack of systematic investigation of the dimensions of symbolic brand image,which limits our understanding of consumers'reaction to symbolic brand and impedes firms' implementation of symbolic brand positioning strategy.Based on ego theories in social psychology discipline,this paper identifies four dimensions of symbolic brand image,i.e.,personal,social,relational and collective image.Furthermore,this paper develops a symbolic brand image scale,and validates and generalizes the scale through three empirical studies.