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Varumärkeskapitalet och varumärkets betydelse på smartphonemarknaden : En kvantitativ studie på den svenska marknaden ur ett konsumentperspektiv
No full textAs there is still limited research on brand equity and brand impact in a high tech industry as the smartphone industry, this study focused on highlighting brand equity and brand relevance in the Swedish smartphone market. The aim was to increase knowledge about the discussion of brand equity from a consumer perspective on the smartphone market by finding out what significance the brand had for the consumers in the purchase of a smartphone and how strong brand equity the brands, Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG and Huawei had in the Swedish smartphone market. To address the research questions, a survey was done as data collection. Questionnaires were distributed to 120 respondents consisting of students in the Stockholm area, from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and Södertörn University. The survey in question was formed almost entirely out of David A. Aaker's concept of brand equity, which consists of brand awareness, perceived quality, brand associations and brand loyalty. The study found two clusters of smartphone manufacturers with different brand strength based of brand equity. The first cluster consisted of the brands Apple and Samsung, both of which had higher brand equity in relation to the remaining brands. The remaining brands HTC, LG and Huawei formed the second cluster, in which Huawei deviated in a bit in strengthfrom the two aforementioned brands. The study also found that the brand was of high significance for consumers when buying a smartphone.Då det fortfarande är begränsad forskning om varumärkeskapital och varumärkets betydelse i en högteknologisk bransch som smartphonebranschen har denna studie fokuserat på att belysa varumärkeskapitalet och varumärkets betydelse på den svenska smartphonemarknaden. Syftet var att utöka kunskapen kring diskussionen om varumärkeskapital från ett konsumentperspektiv på smartphonemarknaden genom att ta reda på vad varumärket hade för betydelse för studenter vid köp av en smartphone och hur starkt varumärkeskapital varumärkena Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG och Huawei hade på den svenska smartphonemarknaden. För att angripa forskningsfrågorna gjordes en enkätundersökning som empiriinsamling. Enkäter delades ut till 120 respondenter som bestod av studenter i Stockholmsområdet från Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholms Universitet samt Södertörns högskola. Enkäten i fråga formades nästintill helt utifrån David A. Aakers koncept om varumärkeskapital, vilket utgörs av varumärkeskännedom, upplevd kvalité, varumärkesassociationer och varumärkeslojalitet. Studien kom fram till två kluster av smartphonetillverkare med olika varumärkesstyrkor baserat på varumärkeskapitalet. Det första klustret utgjordes av varumärkena Apple och Samsung som hade högre varumärkeskapital i relation till resterande varumärken. De resterande varumärkena HTC, LG och Huawei utgjorde det ena klustret där Huawei hade en något avvikande varumärkesstyrka från de två förstnämnda i klustret. I studien framkom det även att varumärket hade en stor betydelseför studenterna vid ett köp av en smartphon
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Varumärkeskapitalet och varumärkets betydelse på smartphonemarknaden : En kvantitativ studie på den svenska marknaden ur ett konsumentperspektiv
No full textAs there is still limited research on brand equity and brand impact in a high tech industry as the smartphone industry, this study focused on highlighting brand equity and brand relevance in the Swedish smartphone market. The aim was to increase knowledge about the discussion of brand equity from a consumer perspective on the smartphone market by finding out what significance the brand had for the consumers in the purchase of a smartphone and how strong brand equity the brands, Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG and Huawei had in the Swedish smartphone market. To address the research questions, a survey was done as data collection. Questionnaires were distributed to 120 respondents consisting of students in the Stockholm area, from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and Södertörn University. The survey in question was formed almost entirely out of David A. Aaker's concept of brand equity, which consists of brand awareness, perceived quality, brand associations and brand loyalty. The study found two clusters of smartphone manufacturers with different brand strength based of brand equity. The first cluster consisted of the brands Apple and Samsung, both of which had higher brand equity in relation to the remaining brands. The remaining brands HTC, LG and Huawei formed the second cluster, in which Huawei deviated in a bit in strengthfrom the two aforementioned brands. The study also found that the brand was of high significance for consumers when buying a smartphone.Då det fortfarande är begränsad forskning om varumärkeskapital och varumärkets betydelse i en högteknologisk bransch som smartphonebranschen har denna studie fokuserat på att belysa varumärkeskapitalet och varumärkets betydelse på den svenska smartphonemarknaden. Syftet var att utöka kunskapen kring diskussionen om varumärkeskapital från ett konsumentperspektiv på smartphonemarknaden genom att ta reda på vad varumärket hade för betydelse för studenter vid köp av en smartphone och hur starkt varumärkeskapital varumärkena Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG och Huawei hade på den svenska smartphonemarknaden. För att angripa forskningsfrågorna gjordes en enkätundersökning som empiriinsamling. Enkäter delades ut till 120 respondenter som bestod av studenter i Stockholmsområdet från Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholms Universitet samt Södertörns högskola. Enkäten i fråga formades nästintill helt utifrån David A. Aakers koncept om varumärkeskapital, vilket utgörs av varumärkeskännedom, upplevd kvalité, varumärkesassociationer och varumärkeslojalitet. Studien kom fram till två kluster av smartphonetillverkare med olika varumärkesstyrkor baserat på varumärkeskapitalet. Det första klustret utgjordes av varumärkena Apple och Samsung som hade högre varumärkeskapital i relation till resterande varumärken. De resterande varumärkena HTC, LG och Huawei utgjorde det ena klustret där Huawei hade en något avvikande varumärkesstyrka från de två förstnämnda i klustret. I studien framkom det även att varumärket hade en stor betydelseför studenterna vid ett köp av en smartphon
Improving Brand Equity with Environmental Sustainability work : A qualitative study in Sweden
No full textSustainability is increasing in importance nowadays and Sweden is one of the most sustainability- focused countries in the world. Environmental sustainability is considered to be a key factor for business growth and companies incorporate this aspect in their brand marketing strategies. The purpose of this study is to get a broader understanding of the field of environmental sustainability work in connection to brand equity in Sweden. The main contribution of this study derives from studying how companies work with environmental sustainability to improve brand equity from a company’s perspective in Sweden. A qualitative approach was chosen, which included semi- structured interviews with seven companies that operate in Sweden. This paper develops an analytical model in order to analyse the findings from the interviews. The findings suggest that companies can work with environmental sustainability to improve their brand equity in Sweden by using strategies and practices that fit the company. It is important to consider the local context of Sweden, the market demands and requirements of its stakeholders and adopt a holistic approach in order to improve brand equity. Companies can choose to incorporate environmental sustainability work as an add-on to their brand or base the core of the brand around their work
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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