The issue of brand equity has emerged as one of the most critical areas for marketing management in the 1990s. Despite strong intereat in subject, however, there is little empirical evidence of how web brand value is created and what its precise effec...
The issue of brand equity has emerged as one of the most critical areas for marketing management in the 1990s. Despite strong intereat in subject, however, there is little empirical evidence of how web brand value is created and what its precise effects are.
This study investigates the importance and the role brand in the e-business environment and examines the formative factors of web brand equity.
The objects of this study are :
1) to investigate the importance and the role of brand in the e-business environment, a general concept and present conditions of e-business through the related literatures, 2) to investigates the Influence factors and process of web brand equity with conceptualizing web brand and its equity, and investigates the major factors that affact the formation of web brand equity through the previous studies, 3) to suggest the conceptual framework for measuring web brand equity based on the empirical results, and to provides the ideas for the future related study and practical basis for brand marketing.
The conclusion of this studies are :
First, the word-of-mouth(WOM) recognized by web users does not affect the web brand awreness, Second, the WOM, the contents, then navigation, the experience, the customer services have the positive relationship with web brand image, but the trustworthy does not affect the web brand image
Third, Web brand awareness of user do not affect the web brand image. but Web brand equity and web brand image of user has the positive relationship with web brand equity
This study can have some implications theoretically and practically. First, this study clearly defined the term 'web brand' and systematically consolidated previous studies. Second, this study suggested the conceptual framework for measuring the web brand equity and the formative factors of the that, Third, the factors in this study are more inclusive than in the previous studies, and that leads the new caual model, Fourth, this study maybe a pioneering one in this field with the web brand equity Fifth, this study provides more accurate and practical basis for building the strategy to managing the web brand for web-based companies and that is the particular approach is needed to build the new brand marketing strategy on the basis of the web characteristics. Finally, this study provides more accurate and clearer for the e-CRM that is we need the new point of view for the one-to-one marketing which will be the most important for the web-based company.