Antecedents and consequences of customer engagement in online brand communities

Chan, Tommy, Zheng, Xiabing, Cheung, Christy, Lee, Matthew and Lee, Zach (2014) Antecedents and consequences of customer engagement in online brand communities. Journal of Marketing Analytics, 2 (2). pp. 81-97. ISSN 2050-3318

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Abstract

Today, organizations require additional efforts to develop new streams of revenue as competition is intense and new customers are hard to secure at a mature stage. The advent of social networking sites serves as an alternative tactic for organizations to form online brand communities, engage customers and hence foster brand loyalty. This article presents a research model of antecedents and consequences of customer engagement in online brand communities on social networking sites. Specifically, we examined how system support, community value, freedom of expression, and rewards and recognition encourage customer engagement, as well as how customer engagement influences repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention. We tested the research model with a sample of 276 online brand community members. Empirical data supported our hypotheses, and revealed that customer engagement mediates relationships between community characteristics and brand loyalty. The current study validated the propositions from prior conceptual frame- works, and shed light for practitioners and scholars.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	customer engagement; social networking sites; online brand communities; community characteristics; social media
Subjects:	G500 Information Systems N100 Business studies
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	Dr Tommy Chan
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2017 09:51
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 09:50
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/32245

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