7. THE ANALYZING OF BRAND EQUITY CONCEPTION IN THAILAND: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY FROM A DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH

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PONGSIRI KAMKANKAEW

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The study investigates to analysis of brand equity conception in Thailand by using a documentary research. The 113 full reports of master thesis and doctoral, which announced between 1998 - 2013 from the electronic data base Thai Digital Collection (ThaiLis) and Digital Research Information Centre (NRCT), were inspecting of this study. The research characteristics recording form was construct as the research instrument. The data utilized analysis by frequency and percentage for composing and abridging the significant.


The finding of the study extended that mostly researches were explored in 2010 – 2013 (49.6%), mostly examined from independent study of master degree (IS) (53.1%). For 73.5% of business administration studies were mostly department program, using the quantitative method (94.7%) with questionnaire as the research instrument (97.3%). Multi-Stage Random Sampling of 56.7% was essentially adopted and considered from the personal goods and health care (28.30%).  Predominantly statistics were determined by correlation coefficient, One-way ANOVA, t-test, regression analysis, Chi-square, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modelling, mean, standard deviation and MANOVA.


Most of them concentrated merely on the brand equity conception of Aaker (1991, 1996) and Keller (1993). The top five dimensions were comprised brand awareness (98.20%), brand association (84.10%), brand perceived quality (73.50%), brand loyalty (70.80%) and brand image (30.10%). The research discovery entailed that the brand equity philosophy of Thailand defined to approach and theory anticipates the western context. The researches and academics should be inspired to manipulate advance exploration in the issues of white investigations. The forthcoming research demand to discover that what the brand equity dimensions are appropriate for the Thai social – culture and Thai consumer by qualitative research method which static not developed theses notion in Thailand. 

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