How contribute strategic corporate brand management model? : Thai SMEs context

Abstract

Strategic corporate brand management (SCBM) and corporate performance are especially meaningful to become a new support management concept for SMEs today. However, SMEs less is served to how SCBM conceptualizing brought in order that it may produce the high effectiveness CP and their conceptualizing has not been still investigated appropriately, especially the SMEs of Thailand context. This paper seeks to develop a conceptual model for SCBM towards on SMEs corporate performance in Thailand. Drawing on reconsidering and analyzing the theoretical and empirical research are addressed the model.  Based on the result provide that SCBM concentrating on the SMEs corporate performance pointedly the effect of distinctiveness, closely with firm characteristics, entrepreneurship, corporate brand element and competitive environment. The developed model devoted to great recognize the role of SCBM and how to enlarge the assistance of Thai SMEs corporate performance. Moreover, this paper increases to the previous research in which the attachment between other factors with SCBM was synthesized. The model advances to SCBM study by essence one of the SMEs development notions. In sum, it is recommended that Thai SMEs’ entrepreneur should be accentuating more for their firm characteristics, entrepreneurship, corporate brand element, competitive environment and strategic corporate brand management. Furthermore, it should be address an evidence empirical study for a major gap in the area of SCBM.

Keywords: Strategic corporate brand management, corporate performance, SMEs, Thailand.