Brand-Specific Leadership: Turning Employees into Brand Champions

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_08F6BBDEBDB6
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Brand-Specific Leadership: Turning Employees into Brand Champions
Périodique
Journal of Marketing
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Morhart F. M., Herzog W., Tomczak T.
ISSN
0022-2429
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
09/2009
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
73
Numéro
5
Pages
122-142
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This article reports two studies on how managers can elicit brand-building behavior from frontline employees. Study 1 examines the mechanisms by which brand-specific transactional and transformational leadership influence employees' brand-building behavior. The results from a survey of 269 customer-contact employees show that brand-specific transactional leaders influence followers through a process of compliance, leading to an increase in turnover intentions and a decrease in in-role and extra-role brand-building behaviors. In contrast, brand-specific transformational leaders influence followers through a process of internalization, leading to a decrease in turnover intentions and an increase in in-role and extra-role brand-building behaviors. In turn, both processes are mediated by employees' perceptions of autonomy, competence, and relatedness with regard to their work roles as brand representatives. Moreover, the results show that brand-specific transactional leadership moderates the influence of brand-specific transformational leadership in a nonlinear, inverse U-shaped way, so that a medium level of transactional leadership maximizes the positive effects of transformational leadership. Study 2 addresses whether managers can learn brand-specific transformational leadership. A field experiment shows that brand-specific transformational leadership can indeed be learned through management training.
Mots-clé
Corporate branding, Transformational leadership, Frontline employees, Social identity, Self-determination, Covariance structure analysis, Field experiment
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09/09/2009 10:29
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20/08/2019 12:31
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