Contemporary Marketing Issues
Executive summary Brand love is about a brand attitude that people hold about a brand. Some most famous theories of brand love include Sternberg’s (1986) theory of triangular love, Consumer-brand relationship theory proposed by Shimp and Madden (1988), Lovemark theory of Robert (2005), and Emotional brand attachment theory proposed by Carroll and Ahuvia (2006). Findings disclosed that emotional approaches to brand love are stronger than rationale benefits. Organizations that transformed from functional to emotional include Coca-Cola and Walt Disney. These organizations are the examples, of emotional theories as they got huge success through deploying interpersonal emotional theories of ...