Identifying and prioritizing the most important consequences of brand value co-destruction in social commerce: before and after using conflict management

With the growth of the activities of companies in the context of social commerce, the participation of customers in the design and production of products and services of brands has increased a lot. But this does not mean that their participation is always accompanied by positive results, rather, in some circumstances, the participation of customers causes huge costs to the company, the loss of the balance of interests and, as a result, the co-destruction of value. It is obvious that with the occurrence of co-destruction of value without conflict management, companies are involved with many negative consequences, the identification of which is necessary to control the situation and get out of the unbalanced situation. Due to the importance of this issue, this study has identified and prioritized the most important consequences of the brand value co-destruction in social commerce, before and after the use of conflict management. This research is practical in terms of the type of purpose, and in order to collect information, it has used the qualitative method of classical grounded theory and the Ordinal Priority Approach. Based on an in-depth interview with 23 selected experts, the consequences of brand value co-destruction were identified in the form of 105 open codes, 29 concepts and 11 main categories. The results show that without using conflict management, companies will face destructive consequences . But by using conflict management while experiencing co-destruction of value, companies prevent negative consequences and turn them into positive and constructive results.