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品牌内化对品牌资产影响的实证研究——以酒店品牌为例
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  • 英文篇名:An Empirical Study on the Effects of Brand Internalization on Brand Equity:A Case of Hotel Brand
  • 作者:张辉
  • 英文作者:ZHANG Hui;School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University;
  • 关键词:品牌内化 ; 酒店品牌 ; 品牌资产 ; 服务人员
  • 英文关键词:brand internalization;;hotel brand;;brand equity;;service employee
  • 中文刊名:LYXK
  • 英文刊名:Tourism Tribune
  • 机构:中山大学旅游学院;
  • 出版日期:2019-02-06
  • 出版单位:旅游学刊
  • 年:2019
  • 期:v.34;No.270
  • 基金:国家自然科学基金项目“服务企业员工品牌内化量表构建与作用机制:基于组织和员工两层面领导的视角”(71602194);; 中央高校科研业务费专项基金项目“基于内部品牌化的服务企业品牌资产提升研究”(14WKPY66)共同资助~~
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:LYXK201902014
  • 页数:12
  • CN:02
  • ISSN:11-1120/K
  • 分类号:97-108
摘要
酒店服务员工作为服务品牌的一部分,他们的一言一行都会影响顾客对服务品牌的感知。因此,从酒店内部着手将品牌根植于企业和员工行为中,才能确保顾客体验与期望相一致,获得良好的品牌资产。但是,以往学者很少有从实证角度研究品牌内化对品牌资产的影响。该研究基于酒店服务人员和顾客的匹配数据,实证检验品牌内化对酒店企业服务品牌资产的影响。研究发现,品牌内化对酒店企业的品牌资产有直接的积极影响,而且还会通过服务体验和顾客满意间接影响酒店品牌资产。研究结论证实了酒店企业品牌内化的理论和实践价值,并为酒店企业及其他服务行业的品牌内化管理提出了管理建议。
        Compared with product branding, service branding places great importance on overall customer experience, the role of frontline service employees in shaping customer experience, and consistency among many"touch points". For these reasons, hotel companies should not only focus on brand building from a customer perspective, but also on branding inside the company, i.e., brand internalization, which can be defined as a key process to align the cognitive, affective, and conative responses of employees with the brand value. The importance of service branding is the value it provides customers; a brand separated from customers becomes meaningless. From this point of view,the ultimate goal of brand internalization should be contributing to customers' positive psychological and behavioral responses to the service brand. Unfortunately, although many researchers recognize both the internal and external perspectives of service brand building, they focus merely on one perspective,thus separating the two. Therefore, research integrating these two perspectives is scant. For these reasons, this study integrates the internal and external perspective of service branding, and empirically investigates the effects of employees' service brand internalization on a hotel's service brand equity.Based on the matched data from employees and customers, structural equation modeling was utilized to test the hypotheses. The results show that employees' service brand internalization not only directly influences a hotel's service brand equity, but also has indirect influence via customer service experience and customer satisfaction, a relationship in which both brand experience and customer satisfaction play important roles. The effects of employee brand internalization on service brand equity are divided into direct and indirect effects. The results show that the total effect is 0.377; the direct effects are greater than indirect effects, which are 0.266 and 0.111, respectively. These results confirm that brand internalization and external service brand building are integrated with each other and thus the relationship between them can be seen as a"means-ends"relationship. Both external brand building and brand internalization contribute to a hotel's service brand equity. The results provide some important managerial implications for hotel companies. First, hotels should recognize the two perspectives of service branding as a comprehensive unit, and place emphasis on brand internalization.Second, brand internalization involves many aspects, including employees' cognitive, affective, and intentional responses to service brands, so hotels should ensure these aspects are thoroughly achieved.Third, hotels should establish brand internalization activities, such as training, communicating, climateconstructing, and empowering to facilitate the process of internalization. Fourth, brand internalization is a tough process that needs to be executed over a long period of time. Similar to other studies, this study suffers from a number of limitations. The hypotheses were tested using data collected from east China.Findings may not be generalized to hotels operating in other parts of the country. Furthermore, this study uses matched data from employees and customers to test the hypothesis; future researchers could perform a more in-depth study using a hierarchical linear model. Another limitation is that organizational brand internalization was not investigated in the current study, and thus future researchers could construct a more integrated model by including organizational brand internalization, and investigate the effects of both organizational and employee brand internalization on service brand equity.
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