People and person factors in building brand admiration and leadership for African brands

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
Field Value
 
Title People and person factors in building brand admiration and leadership for African brands
 
Creator Olumide-Ojo, Nkiru J. Duh, Helen I.
 
Subject Internal brand managemnt; HR; Leadership; Brand Management brand leadership; brand admiration; transactional leadership; transformational leadership; customer-oriented behaviour; people and person factors
Description Purpose: Brand leadership studies focus on validating their four dimensions of brand innovativeness, value, popularity and quality but neglect their predictors. This study was based on three theories and integrated ideas from three models, examining people and person factors that influence brand admiration and leadership through employee-customer-oriented behaviour.Design/methodology/approach: The study hypothesises that person and people factors affect brand leadership dimensions through employee-customer-oriented behaviour and brand admiration. Quantitative methods were employed to collect data from 312 employees, including managers of two leading African brands. The hypotheses were examined with partial least squares structural equation modelling.Findings/results: The findings showed that four of the people factors and all two person factors significantly affected customer-oriented behaviour. In addition, brand admiration had a significant effect on all four brand leadership dimensions.Practical implications: African brands striving to be leaders can use our findings to understand that brand admiration and leadership do not only come from customers’ positive response to brands but also from the top person’s leadership style and internal brand management strategies around people.Originality/value: The study is based on theories and perspectives from brand management, human resources management, internal brand management and leadership to provide an interdisciplinary explanation of four brand leadership dimensions, whose explanation is not only sparse in the literature but also for leading brands in Africa.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor
Date 2026-02-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v57i1.5580
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 57, No 1 (2026); 13 pages 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2026 Nkiru J. Olumide-Ojo, Helen I. Duh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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