BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

This article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among companies commissioning cargo handling on the national transport services market. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between brand awareness, image and brand equity in terms of companies s...

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Autores principales: Marcin ŚWITAŁA, Agnieszka ŁUKASIEWICZ
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:866a5409b22d48acb80a8172466d781b2021-12-02T19:18:25ZBRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY10.21307/tp-2021-0411896-05962300-861Xhttps://doaj.org/article/866a5409b22d48acb80a8172466d781b2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2021/zeszyt3/2021t16z3_05.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1896-0596https://doaj.org/toc/2300-861XThis article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among companies commissioning cargo handling on the national transport services market. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between brand awareness, image and brand equity in terms of companies specializing in road freight transport. The relations between brand equity and the process of handling transport orders were also evaluated. Specific hypotheses about significant dependencies between the parameters referred to above were formulated and were then verified by performing a quantitative data analysis, relying on Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and the chi-square test of independence. A statistically significant correlation between brand image and equity, on the one hand, and between brand awareness and image, on the other, has been identified based on the survey. The research confirms the importance of brand equity in the development of business operations, mainly due to the existence of significant and statistically important dependencies between brand equity and customer cooperation-related parameters that have been observed in the three types of relationships under analysis. Marcin ŚWITAŁAAgnieszka ŁUKASIEWICZSilesian University of Technologyarticlebrand equitybrand imagebrand awarenesscustomer cooperationroad freight transportTransportation engineeringTA1001-1280ENTransport Problems, Vol 16, Iss 3, Pp 53-63 (2021)
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topic brand equity
brand image
brand awareness
customer cooperation
road freight transport
Transportation engineering
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spellingShingle brand equity
brand image
brand awareness
customer cooperation
road freight transport
Transportation engineering
TA1001-1280
Marcin ŚWITAŁA
Agnieszka ŁUKASIEWICZ
BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
description This article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among companies commissioning cargo handling on the national transport services market. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between brand awareness, image and brand equity in terms of companies specializing in road freight transport. The relations between brand equity and the process of handling transport orders were also evaluated. Specific hypotheses about significant dependencies between the parameters referred to above were formulated and were then verified by performing a quantitative data analysis, relying on Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and the chi-square test of independence. A statistically significant correlation between brand image and equity, on the one hand, and between brand awareness and image, on the other, has been identified based on the survey. The research confirms the importance of brand equity in the development of business operations, mainly due to the existence of significant and statistically important dependencies between brand equity and customer cooperation-related parameters that have been observed in the three types of relationships under analysis.
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author Marcin ŚWITAŁA
Agnieszka ŁUKASIEWICZ
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title BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
title_short BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
title_full BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
title_fullStr BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
title_full_unstemmed BRAND EQUITY AS A DETERMINANT OF CUSTOMER COOPERATION GROWTH IN THE ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
title_sort brand equity as a determinant of customer cooperation growth in the road freight transport industry
publisher Silesian University of Technology
publishDate 2021
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