Perception Spillovers across Competing Brands: A Disaggregate Model of how and When

Drawing on the accessibility–diagnosticity framework and previous literature on branding and order of entry, the authors hypothesize that perception spillovers can also occur across directly competing products that do not share a common brand name. The authors suggest two mechanisms (prior perception spillover and dynamic perception spillover) and one moderating variable (product/brand similarity). To test for spillovers across competing brands,...