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The influence of storytelling on the consumer–brand relationship experience
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The main purpose of this research is to explore the strategic role of storytelling as a facilitator of the consumer–brand relationship experience through the creation of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural responses. The hypotheses are tested with a dataset of survey data from 323 Portuguese consumers using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Based on social identity theory, the findings show that storytelling improves consumers’ cognitive responses through consumer–brand identification and stimulates consumers’ emotional responses through brand affective involvement. Moreover, storytelling stimulates behavioural responses through purchase intention, via the mediating role of consumers’ cognitive and emotional responses. The results also show that storytelling generates stronger emotional than cognitive responses, but cognitive responses have stronger effects on behavioural responses. This research contributes to the literature on the strategic role of storytelling in brand management by demonstrating that storytelling is an effective way of improving the consumer–brand relationship experience.
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Acknowledgements This work is fnanced by National Funds of the FCT—Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology within the project UIDB/04928/2020.
Keywords
Storytelling Narrative structure Consumer relationship experience Consumer–brand identifcation Afective involvement Purchase intention
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Citation
Crespo, C.F., Ferreira, A.G. & Cardoso, R.M. The influence of storytelling on the consumer–brand relationship experience. J Market Anal 11, 41–56 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-021-00149-0
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Springer Nature