Markenfokussierte vertikale Distributionssysteme wie bei Esprit, S.Oliver oder Swarovski basieren auf einem integrierten Markenauftritt, einer vertikalen Wertschöpfungskette und multiplen Distributionsformen unterschiedlicher Vielfalt. Diese drei Kernelemente sind im Distributionssystem...

Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...

The main purpose of this study is to illustrate, with a simple monopolistic competition trade model, how trade liberalization (i.e., a decline in trade costs) can affect domestic entrepreneurs’ decisions between domestic brands and foreign brands, and thus the degree of foreign brand...