“…One of the rationales for using brand extensions is exactly to leverage the brand, meaning that consumers evaluate the extension by using their existing knowledge about the parent brand and the extension category (Aaker and Keller, 1990;Smith and Park, 1992;Broniarczyk and Alba, 1994;Park and Kim, 2001;Sattler et al, 2010) as well as a number of extrinsic cues such as brand name to draw inferences about the brand extension performance (Park et al, 1991;Milberg et al, 2010). The reciprocal effect, on the other hand, is the effect of the brand extension on the parent brand (Aaker and Keller, 1992;Ahluwalia and Gürhan-Canli, 2000;Martínez and Pina, 2010).…”