Marketing Doctrine and by brand authenticity: interactive role to the Strategic identity

Authors

  • Prof. Dr. Laith Ali Yousif University of Kufa / College of Administration &Economics
  • Researcher Ikram Adnan Tamkien University of Kufa / College of Administration &Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36322/jksc.176(B).19525

Keywords:

marketing ideology, strategic identity, brand authenticity, and Noor Al-Kafeel Company

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to analyze the interactive effect of the strategic identity in the relationship between the marketing ideology and the originality of the brand, as an attempt by the researcher to contribute to the development of the reality of the food industry sector in Iraq by laying the appropriate foundations to achieve the authenticity of the brand. Accordingly, the opinions of the study community represented by the employees of Noor Al-Kafeel Company for Animal and Food Products were comprehensively surveyed by means of an elaborate questionnaire prepared for this purpose. The statistical analysis of the data through the use of a set of tests in the SmartPLS v.4 program and the SPSS v.24 program. The results of the statistical analysis of the study hypotheses showed that there are two types of relationship between the variables under study. The brand, as well as the presence of a direct moral and positive impact of the strategic identity in the originality of the brand. As for the second type of relationship, it was represented by the presence of an interactive effect of the strategic identity variable in the relationship between the marketing ideology and the originality of the brand. Based on the results of this study, its added value is represented in describing it as the first attempt in the context of reducing the knowledge gap between the aforementioned variables. As a result, the researcher invites researchers interested in the knowledge and application of these variables to conduct more studies and research in various Iraqi organizations or various organizations in other countries.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

المراجع:

1. ‏ Alnabhan, Oday "The Brand Effect", 2018. RESEARCH PAPER,:3.

2. A Hitt, Michael. et al, "Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globali-zation: Concepts and Cases, 13e." (2020): 18

3. Aaker, David A., and Christine Moorman. Strategic market management. John Wiley & Sons, 2017, 291.

4. Abdelgawad, Sondos G., and Shaker A. Zahra. "Family firms’ religious identity and strategic renewal." Journal of Business Ethics (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04385-4

5. Beverland, Michael B., Sarah JS Wilner, and Pietro Micheli. "Reconciling the tension between consistency and relevance: design thinking as a mecha-nism for brand ambidexterity." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 43.5 (2015): 590. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-015-0443-8

6. Carpenter,Mason. Gerry Sanders. "Strategic Management Concepts and Cases", 2014.46.

7. Challagalla, Goutam, Brian R. Murtha, and Bernard Jaworski, "HOW COKE, APPLE AND OTHERS USE MARKETING DOCTRINE". 2015, 2

8. ‏Challagalla, Goutam, Brian R. Murtha, and Bernard Jaworski. "Marketing doctrine: a principles-based approach to guiding marketing decision making in firms." Journal of Marketing 78.4 (2014):7: 17 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1509/jm.12.0314

9. Chong, Vincent K., and Michael J. Rundus. "Total quality management, market competition and organizational performance." The British accounting review 36.2 (2004):158. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2003.10.006

10. Dev, Chekitan, et al. "Customer orientation or competitor orientation: Which marketing strategy has a higher payoff for hotel brands?." Cornell Hos-pitality Quarterly 50.1 (2009): 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1938965508320575

11. Donovan, Rob, and Nadine Henley. Principles and practice of social mar-keting: an international perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2010,28.‏ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761751

12. Eagle, Lynne, and Stephan Dahl, eds. Marketing ethics & society. Sage, 2015. 118.‏ DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473920415

13. Eggers, Fabian, et al. "The impact of brand authenticity on brand trust and SME growth: A CEO perspective." Journal of World Business 48.3 (2013): 340-342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2012.07.018

14. Grewal, Dhruv, and Michael Levy. M: marketing. New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2009.‏

15. Grostøl, Bastian Rahbæk, Nikolaj Skovsted Kristensen, and Pia Aarestrup. "An Assessment of The Challenges of Brand Consistency."2018,11

16. Gruner, Richard L., and Geoffrey Soutar. "Value‐facilitating simplification in marketing: A systematic review and research agenda." International Journal of Management Reviews 23.2 (2021), 277. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12250

17. Guèvremont, Amélie, and Bianca Grohmann. "Does brand authenticity al-leviate the effect of brand scandals?." Journal of Brand Management 25.4 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41262-017-0084-y

18. Hill, Charles WL, and Gareth R. Jones. Essentials of strategic management. Cengage Learning, 2012.32.

19. Hiriyappa, B. Strategic management for chartered accountants. New Age International, 2008.‏

20. Hiriyappa, B. Strategic management for chartered accountants. New Age International, 2008.‏

21. Hutchinson, Michael, and Gregg Bennett. "Core values brand building in sport: Stakeholder attitudes towards intercollegiate athletics and university brand congruency." Sport Management Review 15.4 (2012):444. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2012.02.001

22. Kadirov, Djavlonbek. "Brand authenticity: Scale development and valida-tion." Proceeding of Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, New Zealand. 2010

23. Karjalainen, Toni-Matti. "Strategic brand identity and symbolic design cues." 6th Asian design conference. 2003.‏

24. Kirsebom, O. S., et al. "This is a self-archived version of an original article. This version may differ from the original in pagination and typographic de-tails." PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Phys Rev Lett 123 (2019): 299

25. Leitch, Claire M., and Richard T. Harrison. "Identity, identity formation and identity work in entrepreneurship: conceptual developments and empirical applications." Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 28.3-4 (2016): 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2016.1155740

26. Marion, Gilles. "Research Note: Marketing ideology and criticism: Legiti-macy and legitimization." Marketing theory 6.2 (2006): DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593106063985

27. Morgan, Mark, William A. Malek, and Raymond E. Levitt. Executing your strategy. Vol. 73. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business School Press, 2008, 33.

28. Morhart, Felicitas, et al. "Brand authenticity: An integrative framework and measurement scale." Journal of consumer psychology 25.2 (2015): 201.‏ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcps.2014.11.006

29. Nadeem, Mohammed. "Employee's (Happy) Branding Corporate's' So-cial'Reputation: Can You Put a Price on That?." International Journal of Mar-keting Studies 7.6 (2015).‏ 116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v7n6p116

30. Napoli, Julie, et al. "Measuring consumer-based brand authenticity." Jour-nal of business research 67.6 (2014): 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.06.001

31. Nguyen, Lisa‐Uyen. "The construction of accountant identity in a transi-tioning economy: the case of Vietnam." Accounting & Finance 59.3 (2019):6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12470

32. Oliver, D. A. V. I. D. "Identity work as a strategic practice." Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice (2015): 334: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139681032.020

33. Ozuem, Wilson, Kerry Howell, and Geoff Lancaster. "Exploring the rela-tionship between integrated marketing communications and decentralised or-ganisational structure: a heuristics perspective." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal (2022).‏:7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/QMR-07-2021-0098

34. Rockwell, Sam. "A resource-based framework for strategically managing identity." Journal of Organizational Change Management (2019).‏ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-01-2018-0012

35. Rose, Alexander Scott. Marketing Mutuality: Boundary Spanning Ap-proaches to Marketing Strategy. University of Arkansas, 2014,

36. Rutter, Richard, et al. "Branding instead of product innovation: a study on the brand personalities of the UK's electricity market." European Management Review 15.2 (2018): 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12155

37. Safeer, Asif Ali, Yuanqiong He, and Muhammad Abrar. "The influence of brand experience on brand authenticity and brand love: an empirical study from Asian consumers’ perspective." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics (2020).‏ 1127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-02-2020-0123

38. Shahin, Basel. Evaluating the effectiveness of strategic planning within the Middle Eastern public sector. Diss. Victoria University, 2011.‏ 57.

39. Sherlekar, S. A., R. KRISHNAMOORTHY . Principles of marketing. First Edition . Himalaya Publishing House, 2015.

40. Stead, Jean Garner, and W. Edward Stead. Sustainable strategic manage-ment. Routledge, 2014,32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315700533

41. TRAN, Van Dat, Thi Ngoc Linh VO, and Thu Quynh DINH. "The rela-tionship between brand authenticity, brand equity and customer satisfaction." The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and Business 7.4 (2020): 213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no4.213

42. Văduva, Sebastian A., et al. "Civil Society: The Engine for Economic and Social Well-Being The 2017 Griffiths School of Management and IT Annual Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GMSAC)." Conference proceedings GSMAC. 2017,125:126

43. Wheelen, Thomas L., et al. Strategic management and business policy. 13th ed. pearson, 2012. 17

Downloads

Published

2025-05-13

How to Cite

Yousif, L. and Tamkien, .I. (2025) “Marketing Doctrine and by brand authenticity: interactive role to the Strategic identity”, Journal of Kufa Studies Center, 1(76(B), pp. 55–101. doi:10.36322/jksc.176(B).19525.

Share