Although brand equity is a widely accepted concept, its definition is frustratingly elusive (Knowles, 2008). Our aim thereby is to point the direction for future research on the conceptualization of brand equity, as well as to encourage theoretical and empirical studies that assess its possible consequences. We argue for the need to distinguish between brand equity and brand value, which, altho...

Brand equity has been one of the critical areas for marketing management since it emerged. Brand equity is widely acknowledged as an index system of measuring the effectiveness of branding strategies. However, little systematic research has been done to develop model to evaluate brand equity. This study adopts the theory of fuzzy mathematics and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to propose a fuz...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between customer equity and the performance of parsian international hotels corporation. for this reason it’s an applied and descriptive research. a review of the current literature revealed three key determinants of customer equity: (1)value equity, (2) brand equity and (3) relationship equity. in order to examine the proposed hy...

the aims of this paper are to measure the brand equity of e-banking services, and to improve the conceptualization of customer-based e-service brand equity. a pilot and a main study were conducted. the findings in this study support the model of customer-based brand equity in e-service. a pilot and a main study were conducted. this study used a sample of 130e-banking customers. from the interre...

This research is a partial test of Park et al.’s (2008) model to assess the impact of flow and brand equity in 3D virtual worlds. It draws on flow theory as its main theoretical foundation to understand and empirically assess the impact of flow on brand equity and behavioral intention in 3D virtual worlds. The findings suggest that the balance of skills and challenges in 3D virtual worlds influ...

Green marketing has been a growing trend in recent years as companies aim to align their business practices with environmental sustainability. This research aimed examine the impact of green strategies—including advertisement, brand loyalty, equity, and innovativeness—to enhance consumer repurchase intention while also investigating moderating effects awareness on these relationships examining ...

This paper introduces the perspective of a brand as a perpetual firm asset. From this perpetuity perspective, brand equity is defined as the financial value that a firm derives from customer response to the marketing of a brand. Rooted in this perpetuity perspective, brand perpetual value is developed as a financial measure of brand equity, where brand perpetual value is calculated as the value...