The influence of company reputation, or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe . To establish the western researcher’s external validity of theories in other count...

The influence of company reputation, or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe . To establish the western researcher’s external validity of theories in other count...

The influence of company reputation or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe. To establish the western researcher's external validity of theories in other countri...

brand strength is a variable with the wide scope of definition that can survey marketing strategy and customers' perceptions.in this article, the strength of 23 brands of household appliances in guilan market have been evaluated by using bav models and with receiving customers' opinion from questionnaire. the result indicated that as a whole,foreign brands are stronger than iranian br...

Among major benefits private labels bring to the retailer, we focus on the retailer’s ability to coordinate the prices of both the national brand and its store brand counterpart. By using product-line pricing, the retailer can exploit the differentiated nature of the two brands. This paper investigates the retailer’s problem of positioning her private label and the subsequent pricing issues. Wh...

with increasing competition in today’s markets, the vital point for companies is to maintain their market shares. therefore, marketers try to vitalize the companies’ brands, in order to maintain their position in market. whereas, creation a new brand is very costly and time consuming and its chance of success is limited, nowadays, more than ever, marketers are trying to achieve their goals thro...

Modular product portfolio architecture to maximize shared systems/components among products is increasingly popular in product development for reasons of economy of scale and scope. Product development is no longer sufficient to consider only a single product. Instead, it must also consider the needs of a brand family or portfolio. One of the main challenges in designing multiple brands from th...

In this paper, we study the rational for an incumbent to launch a second brand when facing potential entry in a market with quality differentiated products and a fringe producer. Depending on market size, costs for a second brand and a potential entrant’s setup cost the incumbent might use a second brand both when deterring and when accommodating entry. The analysis generates predictions about ...