{"product_id":"brand-management-in-a-cocreation-perspective-9780367504892","title":"Brand Management in a CoCreation Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface Presentation of structure List of figures and tables Introduction 1. \u003cb\u003eThe Evolution of Branding 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e. A Communication as Constitutive Approach to Branding \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Case Presentation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Process of Brand Creation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Conversational Space, Ventriloquism, and Hybrid Agency \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Sensegiving by Non-Human Actors \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Frame Games and Negotiation of Meaning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Brand Manager as a Practical Author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue Bibliography Appendix 1. Explanation of abbreviations and anonymization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577306878295,"sku":"9780367504892","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brand-management-in-a-cocreation-perspective-9780367504892","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}