Sponsor memorisation: the influence of sponsorship congruence re-examined from an encoding flexibility perspective - Mémorisation des parrains: l’influence de la congruence du parrainage réexaminée à l’aide du modèle de flexibilité de l’encodage

Abstract

Most prior studies obtained that a congruent sponsorship leads to higher sponsor awareness. The experiment conducted here shows that a brand is better identified following an incongruent sponsorship. Moreover, when the opportunity to process the sponsorship is low, the competitors of incongruent sponsors are also harder to identify.