This book articulates a new theoretical approach to branding, labelled
the Communication as Constitutive of Brands (CCB) approach. This
approach combines understandings from the CCO (Communication as
Constitutive of Organization) perspective with the branding
literature. The author outlines the evolution of corporate branding
theory that has developed from an identity approach rooted in
signalling theory to an understanding of brands as co-created by
multiple stakeholders. She then develops and elaborates the latter
approach by formulating and explicating the CCB approach, within which
a brand is conceptualized as a discursive brand space grounded in a
performative and interactional ontology. Brand discourses are produced
in a number of conversational spaces inhabited by both human and
non-human actors. Seeing that non-human actors have agency, hybrid
agency and ventriloquism are key notions in the CCB approach, and the
role of the brand manager is to function as a practical author. The
CCB approach is explicated and sustained by five chapters that each
elaborate on a certain aspect of CCB and demonstrate the theoretical
points in a number of analyses (the process of brand creation, the
set-up of conversational spaces, the role of materiality and
macro-actors, frame games, and the brand manager as a practical
author). The data in the analyses originates from a case that is used
throughout the book. Written for scholars and university students
within the field of branding and organizational communication, this
book represents an area of developing interest within the field of
marketing.
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Communication as Constitutive of Brands
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000410617
Publisert
2021
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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