1. Relevanz von Communities für das Management von Kundenbeziehungen
2. Zum Wesen von Communities
3. Charakterisierung von Brand Communities
4. Typisierung von Brand Communities
5. Erkenntnisse über die Bearbeitung von Brand Communities
6. Implikationen für das Management von Kundenbeziehungen
Brand communities offer the promise of a marketing program that is synergistic with the intrinsic motivations, interests, and empowerment of contemporary consumers. Widely applicable and increasingly used by mainstream consumers across a range of product and service categories, they represent avenues for marketers to generate a range of positive outcomes for the firm in cost-effective ways. For consumer researchers, brand communities are venues to study a host of psychological and social issues. In this article, we elaborate on this concept by providing a definition of brand community, introduce and elaborate on different types of brand communities, and examine the consequences of consumer participation in them.
