Brand Hate Internationally: A Validation Study from Slovenia

This paper responds to the call by Yadav and Chakrabarti (2022) for more research on brand hate across different countries. So far, empirical studies from the US (19 papers), UK, France (6 papers each), Italy, India, and Pakistan (4 papers each) were examined. This paper explores brand hate in Slovenia, a new and different cultural setting. In a survey of 234 consumers, our results validate feelings of brand hate in line shown in previous studies, but with different manifestations. Comparing our results to previous studies, we noticed that the long-term orientation seems to drive which antecedents is the most important one, and individualism seems to drive brand hate outcomes.