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Key dimensions of brand value co‐creation and its impacts upon customer perception and brand performance An empirical research in the context of industrial service

Key dimensions of brand value co‐creation and its impacts upon customer perception and brand... Purpose – This paper aims to identify key dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities and empirically examine the impacts of different dimensions of brand value co‐creation upon brand performance among Chinese industrial services firms. Design/methodology/approach – Key dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities are identified and a research framework is presented based on qualitative interviews with three industrial services firms. Then, the conceptual model and 14 research hypotheses addressing the impacts of different dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities upon brand performance are tested by conducting a questionnaire survey among 258 pairs of Chinese B2B services providers and their client companies. Findings – The research results show that: on the whole, integration of brand value chain and service‐dominant logic (SDL) can lead to stronger theoretical explanation about the industrial services brand value and brand performance. In other words, value co‐creation activities among multiple stakeholders can help customers perceive brand value in a favorable way and finally improve brand performance; branding process involves eight kinds of value co‐creation activities on four interfaces between firm‐employees, firm‐customers, employees‐customers, and firm‐other stakeholders, indicating that the cultivation of industrial services brand needs a broader stakeholder perspective; value co‐creation activities on the firm‐employees interface is original driver of brand development by impacting brand value and brand performance via value co‐creation on other interfaces. Originality/value – This paper is the first kind of research that empirically explores the formation mechanism of industrial brand value from the perspective of SDL and also provides insightful implications for managers by pointing out that B2B service providers need to consider the interactive value co‐creation behaviors in the social network constructed by different stakeholders in order to improve brand management performance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nankai Business Review International Emerald Publishing

Key dimensions of brand value co‐creation and its impacts upon customer perception and brand performance An empirical research in the context of industrial service

Jing Zhang; Yong He
Nankai Business Review International , Volume 5 (1): 27 – Feb 25, 2014
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Emerald Publishing
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2040-8749
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10.1108/NBRI-09-2013-0033
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Purpose – This paper aims to identify key dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities and empirically examine the impacts of different dimensions of brand value co‐creation upon brand performance among Chinese industrial services firms. Design/methodology/approach – Key dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities are identified and a research framework is presented based on qualitative interviews with three industrial services firms. Then, the conceptual model and 14 research hypotheses addressing the impacts of different dimensions of brand value co‐creation activities upon brand performance are tested by conducting a questionnaire survey among 258 pairs of Chinese B2B services providers and their client companies. Findings – The research results show that: on the whole, integration of brand value chain and service‐dominant logic (SDL) can lead to stronger theoretical explanation about the industrial services brand value and brand performance. In other words, value co‐creation activities among multiple stakeholders can help customers perceive brand value in a favorable way and finally improve brand performance; branding process involves eight kinds of value co‐creation activities on four interfaces between firm‐employees, firm‐customers, employees‐customers, and firm‐other stakeholders, indicating that the cultivation of industrial services brand needs a broader stakeholder perspective; value co‐creation activities on the firm‐employees interface is original driver of brand development by impacting brand value and brand performance via value co‐creation on other interfaces. Originality/value – This paper is the first kind of research that empirically explores the formation mechanism of industrial brand value from the perspective of SDL and also provides insightful implications for managers by pointing out that B2B service providers need to consider the interactive value co‐creation behaviors in the social network constructed by different stakeholders in order to improve brand management performance.

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Nankai Business Review International – Emerald Publishing

Published: Feb 25, 2014

Keywords: Service‐dominant logic; Stakeholders; Brand performance; Brand value; Brand value co‐creation; Industrial services

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