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Hashem E AR, Md Salleh NZ, Abdullah M, Ali A, Faisal F, Nor RM. Research trends, developments, and future perspectives in brand attitude: A bibliometric analysis utilizing the Scopus database (1944-2021). Heliyon 2022; 9:e12765. [PMID: 36685379 PMCID: PMC9850049 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Brand attitude has been the primary concern for corporation sustainability for a long. Studies have focused on various attributes concerning brand attitude comprising of many research articles. This study focuses on bibliometric analysis of brand attitude examining 1497 documents published for the years 1944-2021. The purpose of this study is to examine historic research trends, developments, and future conduits based on co-authorship and co-occurrence analysis using VOSviewer. The study highlights the most prolific articles containing the most productive authors and their affiliations, keywords, and influential journals, along with future research trends. The result shows that the number of publications follows a very slow trail until 2008, mildly until 2012, following which the cumulative growth in publication increased manifold. Further, results show that researchers from the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan extended many efforts to the global knowledge of literature leading other countries. The emerging hotspot keywords analysis suggests that brand avoidance, subtle, brand betrayal, consumer ethnocentrism, environmental sustainability and policy, brand activism, brand authenticity, consumer brand engagement, and brand competence are the key areas that attract researchers' attention policymakers as future research boulevards. In the case of consumers' brand attitudes, there is a scarcity of studies that investigated the consumers' implicit and explicit brand attitudes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alharthi Rami Hashem E
- Department of Financial and Administrative Sciences, Ranyah University College, Taif University, P. O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia,Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia
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- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia,Department of Management Sciences, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Dir Upper, 18050, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan,Corresponding author. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia.;
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- Institute of Business Studies and Leadership, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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