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The paper analyses the phenomena of congruence between consumer, brand and store personality and its effect on attachment to brands in luxury sector at an international level. From a theoretical point of view, human personality, brand personality, store personality, congruence and attachment constructs are considered. From an empirical point of view, the paper presents the results of a quantitative primary research run on a sample young people “luxury experienced” from 10 countries. The empirical research considers specifically 6 luxury brands. In term of results this paper presents the validation of the personality congruence measurement scale proposed by the authors; furthermore the research highlights the existence of a correlation between personality congruence and brand attachment.
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Donvito, R. et al. (2016). Are You Like Me? I Will Be Attached to You. Empirical Findings from an International Research About Consumer, Brand and Store Personality Congruence in Luxury Sector.. In: Campbell, C., Ma, J. (eds) Looking Forward, Looking Back: Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24184-5_79
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