Corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays an important role on creating a good image for business owners especially in banking industry. In this paper, we present an empirical survey to measure the impact of CSR on increasing reputation as well as creating brand equity through customer satisfaction. There are five hypotheses in our survey where we examine whether positive perception on bank's customers on CSR activities influences customer satisfaction, brand equity and firm's reputation. In addition, we examine whether customer satisfaction, as in intermediate variable, influences the relationship between CSR and bank's reputation as well as CSR and firm's brand equity. The proposed study of this paper designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 384 experts who work for an Iranian bank located in city of Tehran, Iran. According to our results, there is a positive impact of CSR on customer satisfaction (β=0.84). In addition, there is a positive relationship between customer satisfaction and firm reputation (β=0.70), and between customer satisfaction and brand equity (β=0.98). However, our survey did not confirm that CSR had any positive impact on corporate reputation or brand equity.
Green product management plays an important role in today's economy and people are increasing becoming more interested in green products. In this paper, we present an empirical study to measure the impact of customer perception, quality, environment concern and satisfaction on green customer loyalty. The study proposes two hypotheses, where the first hypothesis studies whether the quality of green product has direct impact on customer satisfaction and the second hypothesis examines whether quality of green product has direct impact on customer loyalty. The population of this paper includes all people who use paperbased drinking glass, napkin and packaging products and live in city of Tehran, Iran. Since not all people are involved in all parts of the city in such product, we have decided to select only those who are involved in using these kinds of products including hospitals, universities, etc. The sampling technique has distributed 300 questionnaires and gathered 283 good quality ones for analysis. The questionnaire consists of 19 questions in five different perspectives. The proposed study uses sequential equation modeling and the results have confirmed both hypotheses.
Brand plays essential role on the success of most organizations and it has been considered as organizational assets. Therefore, brand management is important in today's structure of organizations. A good brand helps gain new customer and future preferences, which leads to customer retention. Brand loyalty is one of the most important components of brand management. It can raise firm's market share and it has close relationship with firm's return of investment and profits. This research tries to answer this question and finds out more about the relationship between customer satisfaction, trust, brand equity, brand image and customer loyalty. The study uses a sample of 384 regular customers who use insurance services in Iran. Using Pearson correlation ratio as well as structural equation modeling, the study has detected positive and meaningful relationship between brand equity and other factors such as customer satisfaction, trust, etc.
The objective of this study is to test empirical relationships between export experience, export market information use, export knowledge, and export performance. In this respect we have developed a model that was presented previously by Toften (2005). To test the model we collected data from 158 top factory managers/owners in the Iranian dried fruit industry, mainly consisting of a number of small and medium-sized firms with a strong export dependency. Confirmatory factor analysis, LISREL 8.50 was used. The findings indicate that export experience positively affects both "instrumental/conceptual" use of information and export knowledge but doesn't affect export performance. "Instrumental/conceptual" use of information also is found to positively affect both export knowledge and export performance. Export knowledge is found to have direct influence on export performance in this study.
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