brand identification

The goal of this study is to examine the antecedents of brand citizenship behavior in financial institutions by considering the internal relationship between them. The research method is descriptive and applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection method is field. The data collection tool in this study was a questionnaire. In this study, the statistical population was the employees of private and public banks and financial institutions in Bandar Abbas. The sampling method was cluster-random. After placing the banks in the three clusters of state-owned banks, private banks and financial and credit institutions, Sepah, Sanat and Ma'dan banks were randomly selected from among the state-owned banks. Ansar Cooperative, Ayandeh, Shahr, Refah and Mehr Eghtesad Banks were randomly selected from among private banks and Noor and Caspian Financial and Credit Institutions were also randomly selected from among financial and credit institutions. A total of 213 questionnaires were distributed among the customers of selected banks as convenient, and finally 203 questionnaires could be reviewed. Data analysis was performed by SPSS16 and PLS3-SMART software. The results show that brand-centered human resource management and brand identification have a positive and significant effect on brand citizenship behavior, but a positive relationship between brand trust, brand commitment, employees' self-concept of brand and brand pride with brand citizenship behavior was not found. Also, a positive relationship between brand-centered human resource management and employees' self-concept of brand, employees' self-concept of brand and brand pride, employees' self-concept of brand and brand identification, brand identification and brand pride, brand identification and brand commitment, and brand trust and brand commitment were confirmed.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of competitive advantage strategies on customer loyalty with the mediating role of customers brand identification and brand awareness in the insurance industry. The study methodology is descriptive-correlational and the statistical population were Parsian Insurance brand customers in Rasht, Lahijan and Bandar Anzali cities. By the use of Morgan table, the sample size were 384 people which finally we selected 389 people by the use of random sampling method. The main dimensions of the research questionnaires were competitive strategies of differentiation, cost leadership, brand identification, brand awareness and customer loyalty. In order to analysis the data we used SPSS 22 and Smart PLS 2 software. The results indicated that differentiation strategies has meaningful and significant effect on customer loyalty and also the mediating roles of brand identity in the relationship between differentiation and customer loyalty and also in the relationship between cost leadership and customer loyalty were confirmed, but the relationship between cost leadership on customers loyalty and the mediating role of brand awareness in the relationship between differentiation on customer loyalty and cost leadership on customer loyalty were not confirmed.