Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Building Virtual PresenceRelease Date: September, 2011. Copyright © 2012. 294 pages.
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In Stock. Have it as soon as May. 23 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-171-9, ISBN13: 9781613501719, ISBN10: 1613501714, EISBN13: 9781613501726  | | TopDescriptionSuccessful brand building helps sustain relationships with consumers, creating long-term sustainable competitive advantage and protecting businesses from market turbulence and uncertainties. Manufacturing processes can often be duplicated in ways that strongly held attitudes established in consumers’ minds cannot. Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Building Virtual Presence explores the processes involved in managing brands for long-term sustainable competitive advantage. Managers, professionals, and researchers will better understand the importance of consumers’ perceptions in brand management, gain insight into the interface of positioning and branding, learn about the management of brands over time and in digital and virtual worlds, be able to name new products and brand extensions, and discover how marketers develop and apply strategies to position their brands. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Avinash Kapoor (Management Development Institute (MDI), India), Chinmaya Kulshrestha (Management Development Institute (MDI), India)
Sustainability has been a concern of activists, organizations, and public officials for several decades. The chapter discusses an important issue: whether consumers...
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Piyush Sharma (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Offshore outsourcing is a fast-growing trend in the world economy today, and it is changing the way business is done across national boundaries. Specifically, custom...
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Shalin Hai-Jew (Kansas State University, USA)
“Pathways to Public Health” involves undergraduate and graduate degrees offered fully online through Kansas State University (K-State) to both meet the needs of trad...
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Piyush Nangru (Great India Rural Tours, India), Vaibhav Rustagi (ITC Ltd, India), Manish Makhija (HCL Technologies, India), Lubna Nafees (IMT, India), Omkumar Krishnan (IMT, India)
In response to increased competition among destinations, destination marketing organizations (DMO) are required to effectively communicate the competitive advantage...
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Margherita Pagani (Bocconi University, Italy )
This chapter analyses the impact of digitalization on TV marketing strategies focusing on the role of brand as a loyalty-based resource, available to digital televis...
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Annamaria Silvana de Rosa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Elena Bocci (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
This chapter presents a perspective theory, not yet fully developed, that seeks to analyze the connections between “Social Representations and Corporate Communicatio...
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Avinash Kapoor (Management Development Institute (MDI), India), Chinmaya Kulshrestha (Management Development Institute (MDI), India)
Political marketing has grown leaps and bounds in India over the last two elections. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze as to how politicians have built their...
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Ronald E. Goldsmith (Florida State University, USA)
Marketers value and seek brand loyalty. Consequently, they have developed a variety of strategies to encourage both behavioral (repeat purchase) and attitudinal (emo...
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Jonathan A. J. Wilson (University of Greenwich, UK)
With the emergence of schools of thought which examine brands and branding according to relationships, brand communities, and popular culture, consumers are becoming...
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Chinmaya Kulshrestha (Management Development Institute, India), Avinash Kapoor (Management Development Institute, India)
He is a Yoga Guru, spiritual beacon, Nano-Bio Ayurveda expert, brand ambassador of Indian States, brand ambassador of the UNO mission, political influencer, animatio...
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P. Raj Devasagayam (Siena College, USA), Dana A. VanDen Heuvel (Pheedo, Inc., USA)
Marketing literature has established the strategic importance of building communities centered around strong brands—brand communities. Our research adds to the curre...
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Robert Pennington (Fo Guang University, Taiwan)
eBranding affords consumers the necessary tools to represent themselves by communicating their roles and relationships in virtual consumer culture environments for t...
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Annamaria Silvana de Rosa (Sapienza University di Rome, Italy), Elena Bocci (Sapienza University di Rome, Italy), Massimiliano Picone (Sapienza University di Rome, Italy)
Other than the descriptive value and the possible function of guiding web professionals and institutional communication managers of the city, the results presented i...
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Brands help to build sustained relationships with the consumers. Strong brands lend endurance and permanence to an organization and protect it from the market turbulence and uncertainties. Given its strategic role, the selected chapters examine and develop a critical understanding of the processes involved in building and managing brands for gaining long-term sustainable competitive advantage. The book provides an insight into the world of sustainable and competitive branding.
– Avinash Kapoor, Management Development Institute (MDI), India; and Chinmaya Kulshrestha, Management Development Institute (MDI), India
TopTopics Covered- Brand Building
- Brand Identity
- Brand Image
- Brand Life Cycle and Strategy
- Brand Revitalization
- Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
- eBranding
- Strategic Branding Decisions
TopPrefaceBrands help to build sustained relationships with the consumers. Strong brands lend endurance and permanence to an organization and protect it from the market turbulence and uncertainties. Given its strategic role, the selected chapters examine and develop a critical understanding of the processes involved in building and managing brands for gaining long-term sustainable competitive advantage. The book provides an insight into the world of sustainable and competitive branding through thirteen chapters divided into four sections.
In section one, “Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage,” the first chapter discusses whether being perceived as sustainable is a means to achieve a differential advantage. Whereas, the second chapter on “Are Strong Brands a Source of Competitive Advantage in the Virtual World?” highlights the importance of customer education and employee training to prevent the erosion of brand image and loyalty on one hand, and improve perceived service quality and customer satisfaction on the other, for companies using offshore outsourcing of customer services.
Finally, the third chapter, “Taking Public Health Learning Global through Branding and Identity Management,” explores potential methods for online branding and identity management. This chapter addresses an environmental scan of the global public health environment and work implications of the global branding, along with the engagement and the maintenance of the brand over time.
In section two “Strategic Branding Decisions,” the first chapter, “Exploring key issues in Destination Marketing,” discusses and presents an analytical framework to effectively communicate the competitive advantage of destinations and market them as brands. The second chapter, “Branding Strategies for digital TV Channels,” analyses the impact of digitalization on TV marketing strategies focusing on the role of brand as a loyalty-based resource, available to digital television networks to create a sustainable competitive advantage. The third chapter, entitled “Between Physical and Virtual reality: the case of Benetton Brand,” identifies the organizational dynamics of the Benetton Company and presents a perspective theory that seeks to analyze the connections between social representations and corporate communication.
Further, the fourth chapter, “Branding & Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Indian Politics: Brand Rahul Gandhi,” discusses and analyses Rahul Gandhi as a brand to find a match between brand identity, brand personality, and consumer perception in terms of benefits sought and influence of activities undertaken by him. The chapter concludes that there should be a sustainable synergy between the leader and the party to avoid brand equity dilution.
In section three, “Consumers and Brands,” the first chapter, “Brand Engagement and Brand Loyalty,” states brand engagement from theoretical, managerial, and methodological perspectives. The theoretical component describes types and levels of engagement and emphasizes their antecedents and consequences. The managerial component briefly describes management interests in branding and brand loyalty and the relation of brand engagement to loyalty. Finally, the methodological component briefly describes how to operationalize the engagement concepts. Similarly, the second chapter, “The Brand Stakeholder Approach: Broad and Narrow-based views to managing consumer-centric brands,” presents a dynamic collaborative process of creation of brands seeking to engage consumers in new and innovative ways in order to gain authenticity.
Finally, the third chapter, “Brand Obsessed Society: Branding Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev in India,” explores the value propositions, and the sustainable key differentiators to analyze the brand status and brand strategy of spiritual beacon Baba Ram Dev. The chapter concludes that, a strong synergy between image and identity of Brand Baba Ramdev results in strong personality that offers him a competitive advantage to get across to the consumers.
In section Four, “Digital And Virtual World,” the first chapter, “GeoFree BrandComms: Building and Sustaining Virtual Brand Communities,” presents the use of Weblogs (Blogs) and related technologies as strategic tools in building GeoFree BrandComms and posits the applications of GeoFree BrandComms in Web-based marketing strategies that find their basis in strong brands and loyal customers.
Further, the second chapter, “Enhanced Social Presence Through eBranding the Consumer in Virtual Communities,” discusses that brands have become an important mode of consumer communication, identifying and distinguishing consumers as social objects within consumer market culture. In addition, eBranding affords consumers the necessary tools to represent themselves by communicating their roles and relationships in virtual consumer culture environments for transfer to actual consumer culture environments.
Finally, the third chapter, “E branding and Institutional Websites: the Visiting Cards of the Municipalities of Rome and Paris,” presents the analysis of the municipal web sites of two historical capitals, Rome and Paris, considered as the Visiting Cards these two cities offer citizens and tourists. In sum, the chapter offers guidelines for web professionals and institutional communication managers.
DR. AVINASH KAPOOR DR. CHINMAYA KULSHRESTHA TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyDr. Avinash Kapoor received a PhD. in Management and an MBA from the R.A. Podar College at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. He also received his MA and B.Sc. from the University of Rajasthan. As a recipient of the National Scholarship Award, he has more than fifteen years of industry, teaching, training, research, and consultancy experience to his credit. He was the former Dean in JIMS, Jaipur and chairperson of PGPIM at MDI, Gurgaon. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Coordinator Consulting at MDI, Gurgaon, India. He has authored books on “Marketing Research, “Marketing Management”, and “Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage Building Virtual Presence”. He has several research papers and articles published in reputed and refereed international journals, and he has presented at numerous research conferences. Dr. Chinmaya Kulshrestha received a PhD. in Management and an MBA from the R.A. Podar College at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She also received her B.A from the University of Rajasthan. As a recipient of the National Scholarship Award, she has more than ten years of teaching, training, research, and consultancy experience to her credit. She was former Dean BBA, Bradford University, IILM Jaipur, and Programme Head MBA, BBA at JIMS, Jaipur. She is currently a member of the marketing faculty at MDI, Gurgaon, India. She has authored books on “Marketing Research” as well as “Branding and Sustainable Competitive Advantage Building Virtual Presence”. She has several research papers and articles published in reputed and refereed international journals, and has presented at numerous research conferences. TopEditorial Board- Jaideep Motwani, Seidman College of Business, USA
- Ashok Kumar, Seidman College of Business, USA
- Ralf Wagner, University of Kassel, Germany
- Richard Feinberg, Purdue University, USA
- Dr. Harsh Diwedi, University of Rajasthan, India
- Dr. Arvind Kalia, Rajasthan Patrika, India
- Dr. J.C. Kapoor, Management and IT consultant, India
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