Participant Diversity and Expressive Freedom in Firm-Managed and Customer-Managed Brand Communities
Journal Title: BAR: Brazilian Administration Review - Year 2013, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
We examine differences between firm-managed and customer-managed brand communities with a conceptual model explaining how demographic and psychographic diversity of participants and their degree of expressive freedom engender trust, learning, and identification in the community, and affect firm-relevant outcomes. We test our hypotheses by estimating a structural equation model and conducting multiple sample analysis with survey data obtained from two leading XBOX brand communities in Brazil. Results reveal that greater demographic and psychographic diversity hinder learning and trust in the community’s manager, but expressive freedom has a positive impact on identification with the community. The levels of expressive freedom and demographic diversity are lower yet their respective effects are stronger in the firm-managed community, whereas psychographic diversity is much less, but it has stronger negative effects, in the customer-managed community.
Authors and Affiliations
Almeida, Stefânia Ordovás de; Mazzon, José Afonso; Dholakia, Utpal; Müller Neto, Hugo
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