Impacts of Peer Identity and Peer Relationship on Online Brand Community Identification and Value Co-creation—A Structured Abstract

Shih Ju Wang*, Chong Jin Edmund Liaw, Heng Chiang Huang

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Abstract

Although researchers have recently advocated that brand communities should be customer centered rather than brand centered, literature on community identification focuses heavily on customer–brand relationships. Adopting the neglected customer–customer relationship perspective, this study instead reclaims the importance of (impersonal) peer identities and (personal) peer relationships in shaping brand–community identification. Adopting a structural equation modeling approach, this study empirically examines, in an online setting, how a brand community’s identity attractiveness and peer relational identification jointly influence brand community identification, which subsequently leads to members’ value co-creation behavior (manifested by co-consumption and co-production). The findings have important theoretical and managerial implications; communal leader enthusiasm might negatively influence peer relational identification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDevelopments in Marketing Science
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages1143-1146
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Publication series

NameDevelopments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
ISSN (Print)2363-6165
ISSN (Electronic)2363-6173

Keywords

  • Community Identification
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Online Setting
  • Relational Identification
  • Structural Equation Modeling Approach

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Marketing
  • Strategy and Management

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