brand plays an important role in contacting customers. even from the customer’s viewpoint, it is a symbol of product quality. measuring the brand equity in order to determine the brand position is of remarkable significance for companies, in particular iranian ones. the purpose of this article is to investigate the parameters that influence brand equity and provide a mathematical model for meas...

This study investigates the manner in which corporate philanthropy affects consumer patronage toward a brand. In so doing, we propose reciprocity as a key mechanism, which manifests the effect of corporate philanthropy on patronage behavior, and examine how vicarious licensing and strategic fit would mitigate the relationship between reciprocity and patronage behavior. The results indicate that...

Purpose This study aims to examine in which circumstances consumer’s self-congruity moderates the indirect influence of consumer-based brand equity (mediating role) relationship between firm-created and user-generated social media content intention purchase fashion products. Design/methodology/approach In this study, authors carried out an online survey with users brands collected data from 622...

It has been reliably shown that light is assumed to come from above. There is also some suggestion that light from the left might be preferred. Leftward lighting biases have been observed across various mediums such as paintings, portraits, photographs, and advertisements. As advertisements are used to persuade the public to purchase products, it was of interest to better understand whether lef...

The authors propose EQUITYMAP, a new approach for measuring, analyzing, and predicting a brand’s equity in a product market. It defines brand equity at the firm level as the incremental profit per year obtained by the brand in comparison to a brand with the same product and price but with minimal brand-building efforts. At the customer level, it determines the difference between an individual c...

Retailers’ brands maker with private label have significantly boosted market share in recent years. Creating new brands for goods or services provide differentiation with similar distributors. The main aim of this paper is to test which component can be more effective in consumers’ purchase intention based on using private label for goods’ image. This research data was collected by prior st...

this research aimed to investigate the effect of brand vision and positioning on brand equity with regard to moderating role of product performance and using descriptive survey research. the population of research was marketing experts of superior brands in iran’s food industry, which chosen 148 sample of those population using stratified sampling method. data collection tool was a questionnair...