Strategic Model of Branding of Research Services of Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

The main purpose of this study was to design a strategic branding model for research services in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries in Iran.

According to the research process, this study is fundamental in terms of orientation, qualitative in terms of research, field and library in terms of research purpose, and more in terms of exploration and understanding of concepts. The grounded theory method aims to extract concepts and patterns from the background data that was done using documents, interviews and observations. It was a snowball sampling method with up to 15 experts. Theoretical saturation was interviewed. To collect data, two sections of documentary studies and semi-structured interviews were used. The data collection process was done by visual and audio interviews and then the text of the interviews was transcribed on paper and analyzed. In this research, to assess the validity of the interview, the opinions of the supervisor, marketing experts and the opinions of two professors in the field of management and marketing have been used.

The results of the analysis of the interviews showed that the major categories of marketing information system were physical environment, product / service deliverables, marketing intelligence, organizational technology, personnel and manpower. , Gas and petrochemical, based on the systematic approach of Strauss and Corbin (1998) the sum of the categories extracted from raw data, in the form of causal conditions (structural stability of the company and marketing intelligence), strategy (marketing information system), context (Physical environment), intervening conditions (manager quality, quality of colleagues, organizational factors) and consequences (branding of research services of oil, gas and petrochemical industries) were categorized.