ABSTRACT

The amount and range of brand related literature published in the last fifty years can be overwhelming for brand scholars. This Companion provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of contemporary issues in brand management research, and the challenges faced by brands and their managers.

Original contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars from Europe, US, Asia and Africa, provide a diverse range of insights on different areas of branding, reflecting the state of the art and insights into future challenges. 

Designed to provide not only a comprehensive overview, but also to stimulate new insights, this will be an essential resource for researchers, educators and advanced students in branding and brand management, consumer behaviour, marketing and advertising.

part |106 pages

What is a brand and how do we measure its market performance?

chapter |19 pages

Measuring the market performance of brands

Applications in brand management

chapter |20 pages

Brand valuation

Principles, applications and latest developments

chapter |15 pages

Dead brand walking

On the paradoxes and perversities of branding

part |135 pages

Branding to different audiences

chapter |15 pages

Strategic employer branding

Current domain, future directions

chapter |14 pages

Internal branding

Dissecting, re-analysing and re-directing the literature

chapter |12 pages

Branding the entire entity

Corporate branding

chapter |13 pages

Branding in the base of the pyramid

Bases for country and organizations in Ghana

chapter |13 pages

Guinness in Africa

Contemporary branding at the base of the pyramid

part |162 pages

Branding different entities/products

chapter |25 pages

Political branding

The case of the Scottish Referendum 2014

chapter |15 pages

Service branding

Enabling, making and delivering promises