With the increasing popularity of mobile web, social networking services (SNSs) are an integral part of our everyday lives, since they are used for communicating with friends, for gaining information on other people or some items of interest, and even for business profits. Social network information is incorporated into recommender systems to improve their performance, but most of existing work...

Given the increased interest and empirical research in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and irresponsibility (CSI), the interest of this paper is given to the impacts of corporate operational performance (COP) and corporate social performance (CSP) on consumer brand advocacy and brand trust. In this consumerbrand continuum, customers evaluate brand trustworthiness by two scopes: (1) the pr...

Over the past few years, many organizations have come to believe that the brand of their products and services is one of their most valuable assets. Therefore, it must be said that the brand is an asset that has a significant part of the value of the property of institutions and organizations. In this research, the building brand equity (BBE) from the customer's perspective and brand market per...

Competition in the service industry is intense. To deliver value-added services, more companies are focusing on consumers as a powerful means of establishing firm performance through dialog, participation, and engagement. However, scant research has been conducted to examine whether customer value co-creation can boost brand equity, particularly among SMEs. To address these shortcomings in the ...

Scholars are interested in exploring strategies for better business-to-business (B2B) brand management because several strategic benefits of having a stronger B2B brand have been revealed. Contributing to this stream of research, this dissertation applies the concept of multiple strategic orientations for the purpose of improving B2B branding. The collective role of the brand, market and entrep...

This research introduces a new diagnostic metric to evaluate global branding strategies: image-based “brand–country fit.” The metric measures the extent to which consumers perceive a brand image as consistent with a country image. The authors conceptualize and empirically analyze the brand–country fit for more than 1000 brands and three countries using Young & Rubicam’s Brand Asset Valuator dat...

INTRODUCTION This study investigated the performance of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), compared different models within a brand, compared identical copies of the same model within a brand, and examined performance using different protocols. METHODS Airflow rate required to generate aerosol, pressure drop across e-cigarettes, and aerosol density were examined using three different proto...

a key challenge to brand managers is how to gain a better understanding of the relationship between brand and customer loyalty constructs. researchers have recognized that brand identity plays a key role in brand management. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of brand identity and brand identification on brand loyalty through perceived value, customer satisfaction, and trust...