Designing and Identifying the Variables of the Pricing Model for the Company’s Brand Value in Merger and Acquisition Strategies

الموضوعات :

Hamid Kheilnejad ¹ , Fariz Taherikia ² , Seyyed Mahdi Jalali ³ , Bita Tabrizian ⁴

1 - Department of Management, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
2 - Department of Management, Firoozkuh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkuh, Iran
3 - Department of Management, Firoozkuh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkuh, Iran
4 - Department of Management, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

تاريخ الإرسال : 17 الإثنين , شعبان, 1440 تاريخ التأكيد : 16 السبت , رمضان, 1441 تاريخ الإصدار : 29 الأحد , شوال, 1441

الکلمات المفتاحية: acquisition, merger, Brand Value, Pricing, brand,

ملخص المقالة :

Strong brands bring numerous benefits for both the companies and their customers such as decreasing purchasing risk and searching cost and increasing the likelihood of repurchasing. It is not presented an applied model for determining the price of this asset in Iran, especially in terms of merger and acquisition. The purpose of this study is to develop a model for pricing brand value in Iran’s capital supply companies in terms of marketing strategies of merger and acquisition. The current study is qualitative research which is done by conducting grounded theory in MAXQDA software. Needed data were gathered from interviews and panel sessions with all the 21 pricing experts in capital supply companies during the year 2018, and were analyzed to extract the variables of the model of brand pricing to Rial. After that, open codes were categorized into 5 main categories and 2 sub-categories titled as: communication and performance environmental factors, marketing, brand, performance (financial and non-financial), and corporate audit reports. Research findings; in addition, has developed an operational brand pricing model for Iran’s semi-public economy that is unprecedented in other studies.

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