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 firm-specific trademarks as investment proxies, our results show a …

unrecognized brands? A reasonable consumer should value reputation; however, it is also sensible to put a heavyweight on brand … recognition. To investigate this question, the authors study consumers' inferences about brand quality for products in three … frequency of encountering a brand dominates what people profess to know about it. The authors explore the ecological rationality …

Extending a brand beyond its original product category is a major strategy for long-term profitability. A brand owner … can internalize the development of the extension product, or license the brand to an external partner in order to exploit … the licensee’s better capabilities and higher efficiency on the targeted market. Brand extension is characterized by the …

competition between the retailers store brand (SB) and a manufacturers national brand (NB). In our model, there is ex …