Export Firms Performance: Analyzing the Role of Employee’s Brand-Building Behavior on Brand Equity

Companies need to identify the factors affecting their export performance in order to survive and succeed in export activities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Employee’s Brand-Building Behaviour on brand equity and performance of export companies in Semnan province. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection method, it is descriptive of survey type. The statistical population of this study is all companies active in industrial towns of semnan that 239 were selected by simple random sampling method. Also, the questionnaire was used to collect data and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze data. The findings of the present study showed that variable participation, positive word-of-mouth, In-Role Brand-Building Behavior and Retention had a positive and significant effect on brand equity. Also, there was a significant positive relationship between brand equity and export performance companies of Semnan.