{"title":"Importance of Consumer-based Green Brand Equity: Empirical Evidence","authors":"Utkal Khandelwal, K. Kulshreshtha, V. Tripathi","doi":"10.1177/0971890719844428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890719844428","url":null,"abstract":"Due to increasing awareness towards environmental issues and consumer demand for environmental-friendly products, companies are shifting their management from brand equity to green brand equity. This will lead to the novel marketing phenomenon: green brand equity. Most of the previous studies on green branding, green marketing initiatives and social economies have been conducted in developed countries, and there is a lack of such studies in fast developing Asian countries like India. Therefore, this research tries to fill in the gap to measure the green brand equity in developing economies like India. This research measures green brand equity and its impact on consumer attitude. In addition, this research also measures the difference in the degree of green brand equity in metro and non-metro city. Consumer behaviour of metro and non-metro cities in India has found similarity and dissimilarity in many ways. The present study presents the different dimensions of green brand equity and its impact on consumer attitude. Green brand image, satisfaction, trust, loyalty, reference group and green advertisement emerged as a strong influencing agent of customer attitude towards green brand equity. The result of measurable difference of these construct revealed that there is a significant difference in all constructs, except green advertisement. Marketers have to understand these differences and formulate different market strategies while moving from metro to non-metro cities. This research not only provides green brand equity dimensions as a conceptual contribution, but also establishes the relationship between green brand equity and consumer attitude as an empirical contribution.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"357 1","pages":"83 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88857621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measures Adopted for Promoting Inclusive and Sustainable Growth","authors":"Reena Agrawal","doi":"10.1177/0971890718787904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718787904","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was taken up to review the initiatives taken by the present government to further consolidate the efforts to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth in India and to sustain the existing growth. The intent of the study was to explore the measures taken by the government to enhance: (a) infrastructure development, (b) financial inclusion, (c) growth in agriculture and rural sector, (d) social inclusion, (e) good governance and policy reforms and (f) expertise development and job creation in the country. The aim was also to evaluate the impact of these initiatives on the economy, find the gaps, if any, and suggest measures to complement the on-going efforts.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"183 1","pages":"143 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73470251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Bandhan: The Making of a Bank","authors":"Surajit Ghosh Dastidar","doi":"10.1177/0971890718788214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718788214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"24 1","pages":"185 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77451828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Effectiveness","authors":"A. Wali","doi":"10.1177/0971890718787663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718787663","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a comparative consumer study into the influence of firms’ customer relationship management (CRM) practices on their marketing effectiveness (ME) in the Nigeria and UK mobile telecommunications (MT) sectors. The qualitative multi-methods (focus groups [FGs] and secondary documents) were employed for data collection. The study involved six consumer FGs, three in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and three in Huddersfield, UK. The author employed thematic and content analysis techniques to analyse the study data using NVivo 10 software. As per Nigerian study, it was revealed that firms’ CRM practices were not customer-friendly and had negative impacts on their ME, and these were motivated by external factors. Six themes showed support for improving consumers’ experiences. The UK study revealed that firms’ CRM practices were consumer-friendly and had positive influence on their ME and these were motivated by internal factors. Seven themes found support for continuously service improvement. The study contributes to institutional theory and consumer utility theory.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"2 1","pages":"101 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85539495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Mediating Effect of Parent Brand Reputation on Brand Equity","authors":"R. Joshi, Rajan Yadav","doi":"10.1177/0971890718787903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718787903","url":null,"abstract":"Companies with product line consisting of multiple brands very well understand the weightage of parent brand reputation as a seal of approval to consumers. This understanding not only helps them bolstering the reputation of other products but also creates a powerful brand voice and resulting brand equity. Brand equity is understood with the help of multiple dimensions in the existing literature. In addition to this, many researches on brand extension have traced the pivotal change in brand equity owing to the variation in brand extension attitude of consumers. However, very little amount of significant contribution has been observed with respect to the mediating role of parent brand reputation. Specifically, the article proposes to test the role of parent brand reputation in mediating the relationship of brand extension with brand equity.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"46 1","pages":"125 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79272955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting Market Betas","authors":"T. Saji","doi":"10.1177/0971890718787942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718787942","url":null,"abstract":"This research, using firm-level data on NSE listed stocks for the period of 2008–2015, seeks empirical evidence on the significance of company characteristics in prediction of market betas in Indian context. The empirical methodology involves two-stage statistical procedure where an exploratory factor framework determines the historical relationship between firms’ fundamentals and systematic risk at first, and a generalized least square (GLS) technique of panel regression modelling estimates their predictive power thereafter. The search process discovers debt ratios and returns on investment predict market betas in Indian stock market. The study strongly suggests that the use of 1-year lagged historical betas along with the measures of financial leverage and overall profitability produces better predictions than the benchmark predictions solely based on historical betas. However, the analysts need to consider the industry differences in systematic risk to enhance the predictive power of the model.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"113 1","pages":"160 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79450412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Demonetization on the Indian Stock Market","authors":"Deepika Upadhyay, Swetha Wenona Suvarna","doi":"10.1177/0971890718788226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718788226","url":null,"abstract":"Demonetization is the act of eradicating a currency unit from circulation. Indian economy witnessed this on 8 November 2017 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the two highest denomination currency notes, that is, ₹500 and ₹1,000 ceased to be legal tender. As most of the transactions in the country are based on cash only, the announcement resulted into huge hue and cry nationwide. It was estimated that approximately 86 per cent of cash was washed off from circulation. The currency notes that were rendered invalid were replaced by the new currency notes of ₹500 and ₹2,000 later. The article intends to investigate the impact of demonetization on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). An event study methodology has been used to analyse the impact of the announcement on its most important index—S&P (Standard & Poor’s) BSE SENSEX index and the 30 top trading stocks which comprise S&P BSE SENSEX. The study period is divided into pre- and post-demonetization announcement. The empirical results indicate that there was no striking impact of the demonetization announcement on the stock returns during the period of the study.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"9 1","pages":"175 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80969105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Study on Consumer Societalness and Perception towards Social Responsibility Activities of the Corporation","authors":"K. Mandal, Sujata Banerjee, Sharmistha Saha","doi":"10.1177/0971890718758200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718758200","url":null,"abstract":"This study intends to measure the variation of societalness of the different segments of the consumers and their perception towards the corporate activity towards social responsibility. The present study also aims to explore the attitude of the consumer towards the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the company. This article is based on a survey to evaluate the societalness and the perception of the consumers. A structured questionnaire was developed and administered to the respondents in the Durgapur City, West Bengal. Independent sample t-test has been employed to compare the means of the different groups in relation to measuring the significant variation in the degree of societalness among the consumers. The study reveals that responsible activities of the company favourably affect the consumers’ thinking and do augment their attitude positively towards it. Also, the results suggest that the knowledge of the responsible activities influences the perception of the consumer while taking purchasing decision.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"25 1","pages":"46 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78265571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intentions to Use Social Networking Sites (SNS) Using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)","authors":"Ruchi V. Dixit, G. Prakash","doi":"10.1177/0971890718758201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718758201","url":null,"abstract":"This article intends to empirically test and analyse Social Networking Sites (SNS) usage pattern applying Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and predict user’s intention to use SNS. This information would help in understanding better its remarkable marketing potential in India to practice and to create user value. The researchers explored intentions to use SNS using Davis (1985) TAM in Indian context and applied confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modelling (SEM) technique to check the model fitness. To commensurate this, a survey was carried out through a well-structured questionnaire of 172 respondents of North India, particularly from western UP covering different age groups, income level, educational background and professions. To explore the degree of fitness of TAM factors in SNS, six hypotheses were formulated and tested, where four were accepted and two were rejected. Findings revealed that the TAM fits with the data to interpret and analyse intentions to use SNS in the target population. Since the survey was conducted in and around Mathura (UP), this work could be extended to further research covering bigger geographical areas and sample size to have more accurate predictions regarding diversified SNS usage pattern in India. To evaluate the integration of new technologies, traditional TAM is extensively used. The ‘Intention to Use SNS’ is studied comparatively less in Indian context. This study explores and underlines the diversified potential of these networks. To gauge detailed information, the researcher added five items in ‘Perceived Usefulness’ construct and one item in ‘Intention to Use’ construct of TAM. The objective is to critically analyse and interpret respondent’s viewpoints regarding diversified SNS usage intentions, in addition to viewing and communicating with old and new friends.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"1 1","pages":"65 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90074851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goods and Service Tax","authors":"Hemant Tiwari, S. Singh","doi":"10.1177/0971890718758198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0971890718758198","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian government has taken a major step in the direction of indirect tax reform. Since 1 July 2017, it implemented goods and service tax (GST) in place of other indirect taxes. The idea behind GST is to bring uniformity in goods and services price across the nation. This new system brings a lot of transparency in indirect tax structure of our country. It will also help in tracking tax evasion. GST will bring a lot of changes in Indian economy. This will also help in removing obstacle of doing business in our country. In this way, it will attract lot of domestic and foreign investors to set up their business in India. Once foreign companies start their operation in India, they will hire lot of Indian youth to do work in their business. This will pave the way to sort out the problem of unemployment in India and enhance our foreign exchange reserve. Business development will further enhance the infrastructure growth in our nation. It will direct the path of growth in government revenue and support government initiatives such as Make in India, Digital India and so on. In this way, GST will give a spur to Indian economic growth prospects. The above-mentioned growth path will make Indian equity market lucrative for domestic and foreign investors. Here, we can say GST will not only simplify indirect tax system but also give a way of further economic development of our nation.","PeriodicalId":89555,"journal":{"name":"Global health governance : the scholarly journal for the new health security paradigm","volume":"48 1","pages":"17 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74130051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}