Senny Luckyardi, Ratih Hurriyati, Disman Disman, Puspo Dewi Dirgantari
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This study aims to develop a new construct, Smart University Image (SUI), as a branding strategy in private universities. It is necessary due to the limitations of brand image theory in the context of a Smart University (SU), which is considered inconsistent and insufficient semantically or functionally. The research was analyzed by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The respondents were 215 students from private universities, including in the SU category in West Java Province, one of the provinces with the highest number of private universities in Indonesia. The results showed that Technology Readiness (TR), E-Service Quality (ESQ), and E-Information Quality (EIQ) were significantly influenced by Value Co-Creation (VCC) and SUI at private universities in West Java. VCC is able to mediate the relationship between ESQ, EIQ, and SUI. It is concluded that SUI is an important value of branding strategy through VCC between students and the university.
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Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) is a multi-disciplinary journal related to the Eurasia regional economics, finance, management, marketing, international affairs, and other business-related disciplines. By Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the IEECA refers to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and five post-Soviet Central Asian states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The JEECAR Journal is committed to the editorial principles of all aspects of publication ethics and publication malpractice as assigned by the Committee on Public Ethics. Any paper submitted to the journal must be original, previously unpublished, and currently not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All articles in the printed version of the journal are peer-reviewed. The review process is a double-blind process. Neither the authors nor the reviewers know who wrote or reviewed the article. Per standard practice, only the Editor assigned to handle a paper knows the identity of the authors and the reviewers.