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    Leveraging Strategic Planning to Navigate Volatile Environments
    (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023) ;
    Periods of rapid change underscore the importance of Strategic Planning as a managerial lever for decision-making in the face of environmental volatility. This study examines the effect of two strategies implemented by a university as part of the strategic plan devised to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Student assessments of brand promise delivery and an updated corporate visual identity (CVI) are measured through an online survey (n = 288). Brand promise delivery has a substantive effect on the university’s reputation and brand advocacy, in both cases mediated by brand image and student satisfaction. The new CVI positively moderates the relationship between brand promise delivery and brand image. By focusing on the impact of two marketing strategies, the study illustrates the cyclical nature of the Strategic Planning process, and how successive cycles of planning can benefit from the knowledge gained through empirical research. Managerial applications are suggested. ©The authors ©Springer.
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    Internal Branding Processes in a Fashion Organization: Turning Employees into Brand Ambassadors
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    Sádaba, Teresa
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    Mir Bernal, Pedro
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    López-Sánchez, Oziel
    <jats:p>This research aims to empirically examine the internal branding processes implemented by a global sports fashion firm to turn all employees into competent brand ambassadors. Brand-oriented training was hypothesized as an antecedent of salesperson brand identification and brand commitment, which drive brand-aligned behavior, the critical trait of employee brand ambassadors. These hypotheses were tested by surveying 141 corporate and retail employees of a global sportswear fashion brand's regional operations in Mexico. The principal conclusion is that brand-oriented training proves a significant driver of salesperson brand identification. Furthermore, brand identification drives brand commitment and brand-aligned behavior among all company employees, not just salespersons</jats:p>
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    Branding interno en organizaciones de comercio minorista: un estudio en una cadena de farmacias
    (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020)
    El objetivo del artículo es introducir el concepto de branding interno en la literatura organizacional publicada en México, distinguiéndolo de conceptos relacionados como el marketing interno y el branding del empleador. El método consistió en la estimación de un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales usando Mínimos Cuadrados Parciales con una muestra de 310 encuestas de empleados de una cadena grande de farmacias. Los resultados muestran una relación positiva entre el ajuste con los valores de marca de los empleados y su satisfacción laboral, intención de permanencia y conducta alineada con la marca. El hallazgo principal es que el branding interno rebasa el ámbito exclusivo del marketing e incide también en objetivos tradicionales de recursos humanos, como la satisfacción e intención de permanencia de los colaboradores. ©El autor © Universidad de Guadalajara ©Mercados y Negocios.
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    Reimagining attraction and retention of hospitality management talent– A multilevel identity perspective
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    King, Ceridwyn
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    Madera, Juan
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    Lee, Lindsey
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    Baum, Tom
    Through the lens of hospitality, an industry with chronic retention issues, this article seeks to stimulate reflection on labor-intensive industries and how we can reimagine their responses to an evolving labor market environment when seeking to attract and retain management talent. Drawing on identity economics, whereby employees’ identity utility is an important incentive in employment decision-making, the necessity for a multilevel perspective of identity formation is advanced. Positing that employees’ work identity is informed by individual (micro), organizational (meso), and professional (macro) level factors, this perspective illuminates the important role that macro level stakeholders play in employee identity formation, particularly in the hospitality industry. Further, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of levels in shaping an employee's identity and career decisions. Through a series of research questions, a line of inquiry is articulated for the purpose of addressing the challenges of attracting and retaining management talent from a holistic identity formation perspective. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.
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    Finally Back to Campus? Motivations for Facemask Adoption in the Higher Education Sector
    The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented crisis in the higher education sector through campuses closing worldwide. To contain the disease, authorities required their citizens to wear facemasks in public spaces. As universities return to in-person instruction, they will probably require all students to wear facemasks while on-campus. This study examined antecedents of voluntary adoption of facemasks through a survey of students enrolled in Mexico City universities in the Fall of 2020. It was hypothesized that Social Value Orientation (SVO) and Trust would be positively related to facemask adoption. Findings revealed that among students, wearing a facemask reflects distinct conducts depending on the social context. Regression results show that SVO and Trust significantly predict facemask use but only in some contexts, giving partial support to hypotheses. A key implication is that public health communications should avoid general messages recommending facemasks, and craft more nuanced appeals targeting specific social contexts. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    The coming of age of internal brand management research: looking back to look forward
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    Xiong, Lina
    The literature on internal brand management (IBM) has accumulated over 240 Scopus-indexed articles in the last two decades since the first seminal studies. This chapter undertakes a systematic literature review complemented with a bibliometric cluster analysis to highlight the studies with the most impact, the dominant themes, as well as the authors driving this emerging research phenomenon. The analysis provides a roadmap of the theories, methods and contexts that have been used in past studies and proposes a number of meaningful and relevant contemporary research avenues. As IBM research matures with increasingly repetitive studies, future investigations are encouraged to emphasize more actionable and meaningful research topics for academia and businesses, as well as to develop strong theoretical underpinnings and diverse research methods to break new ground. ©The authors © Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    A Research Agenda for Brand Management in a New Era of Consumerism
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    King, Ceridwyn
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    Ceridwyn King
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    Enrique Murillo 
    Tracking the seismic shifts in consumerism over time, this cutting-edge Research Agenda provides a theoretical and methodological roadmap of brand management research in the third age of consumption. Leading experts and pioneers of key concepts in brand management give insights into the exponential growth of the field and identify promising directions for future investigation. ©The authors © Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    Looking Back at 2022: A Recovery or a Protracted Crisis?
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    The year 2022 was a turbulent time for the global economy because of the cumulative impact of the war in Ukraine, rapid spread of COVID-19 Omicron, record-breaking heat waves, and other macroeconomic shocks. The adverse situation was reflected in many industries, as operations were hampered by employee absenteeism, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. Inflation is seen as the most severe long-lasting damage from the pandemic together with the recessionary interest rate hikes central banks have implemented to control it. Inflation is analyzed as mainly a supply-side problem, caused by supply chain disruptions and companies that went out of business during the lockdowns. As a consequence, high interest rates have so far failed to dampen inflation, but have negatively impacted investment, consumption, tax collection, and public debt payment issues for several countries. This Introduction also includes a commentary of all chapters in this volume. ©The authors ©Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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    Examining the drivers of employee brand understanding: a longitudinal study
    The purpose of this study is to extend previous research by using a longitudinal design to examine the differential contribution of brand understanding (BU) drivers at various moments in the early tenure of service employees. Employee BU is a prerequisite of brand promise delivery among service employees. Previous studies, using cross-sectional samples, established that brand-oriented recruitment, training and leadership are significant BU drivers. A three-wave survey was collected from a 105-member panel of recent hires at a restaurant chain that displayed a strong brand culture and adopted internal brand management (IBM) practices. Structural equation models with carryover effects were estimated to measure the impact of BU drivers on Day 1, as well as at four and seven months of tenure. In addition, a latent growth model of BU was estimated using random coefficients modeling.Results show a significant positive effect of IBM practices on BU at each point in time; however, despite this, by the seven month milestone, BU is still not fully developed. As with most organizational longitudinal studies, there was sample attrition because of the high turnover that characterizes the restaurant industry. This attrition is not believed to be correlated with the variables measured in the study. Managers seeking a differentiated customer experience should not assume new hires attain a good understanding of the service brand even after the first seven months of tenure. Hence, brand training and leadership should extend well beyond this time frame. This study is the first, as per the authors’ understanding, to use a longitudinal design to model BU as a dynamic variable because it befits the learning trajectories of new employees.
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