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2015/2016  KAN-CCMVV1017U  New Frontiers in Branding: From static to dynamic branding approaches

English Title
New Frontiers in Branding: From static to dynamic branding approaches

Course information

Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Second Quarter
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Max. participants 200
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Sylvia von Wallpach - Department of Marketing (Marketing)
Kontaktinformation: https:/​/​e-campus.dk/​studium/​kontakt eller Contact information: https:/​/​e-campus.dk/​studium/​kontakt
Main academic disciplines
  • Communication
  • Marketing
Last updated on 19-03-2015
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors: The course supports students in understanding the evolution from static to more dynamic branding approaches. Students will learn to understand brands as complex, dynamic phenomena and will be provided with theoretical and methodological input to deal with this complexity. The course helps students (a) to enhance their ability of expressing themselves academically and (b) equips them with relevant knowledge for pursuing a career as “state of the art” marketing manager or communications expert.

At the end of the course, the excellent student should be able to
  • Understand, reflect upon and contrast conventional static with dynamic branding approaches
  • Identify and apply appropriate research methods for studying brands as dynamic phenomena
  • Identify and discuss practical implications and limitations of dynamic branding approaches
  • Identify potential new research topics related to dynamic branding approaches and generate his/her own conceptual framework
  • Demonstrate the ability to reflect on his/her own activities and interactions throughout the course by identifying a portfolio of own contributions and arguing for their substantiveness and relevance for solving the exam case.
Examination
New Frontiers in Branding: From static to Dynamic Branding Approaches:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration 2 weeks to prepare
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Course content and structure

In today’s business environment brand management is no longer in the position to unilaterally “manage” brands while perceiving consumers and other brand-interested stakeholders (e.g., employees, investors, or suppliers) as passive recipients of brand messages. Empowered by new social media, brand-interested stakeholders actively contribute to brands that affect their personal lives.
 
This course confronts student with and prepares them for a complex branding reality in which brands can no longer be “managed” in the conventional sense.
 
The course reviews conventional static branding approaches and supports students in understanding the recent evolution towards a more dynamic, process-oriented understanding of brands. Students will be provided with theoretical input which helps them making sense of brands as complex social phenomena in constant flux. For this purpose, interdisciplinary insights (e.g., from philosophy and organization theory) into process theories will be provided; formerly static brand-related concepts will be discussed from a dynamic perspective (e.g., brand knowledge / meaning, brand identity, brand manifestations, etc.); relevant concepts like multi-stakeholder brand co-creation and social brand discourse will be introduced.
 
Furthermore, this course will provide students with methodological input which supports them in gaining empirical insights into brands as complex social phenomena (e.g., netnographic methods, observation, discourse analysis).
 
The theoretical and methodological discussion will be complemented with input from managers who are confronted with this “new branding reality” on an everyday basis and have developed successful ways to deal with this complexity.

Teaching methods
This is a fully online course. The course will run over 8 weeks. The course will consist of asynchronous and/or synchronous online lectures, asynchronous and/or synchronous online discussions, quizzes and individual and/or group assignments. Research articles on the specific topics will be assigned for reading during the quarter. They will also build the foundation on which we will discuss cases online, and they provide the necessary knowledge to work with home assignments. The lecturer will be available for asynchronous and/or synchronous online discussions throughout the 8 weeks in which the course runs.
Further Information

Online course

Expected literature

Indicative literature (more literature will be announced upon enrollment):

  1. Aaker, J.L. (1997), Dimensions of Brand Personality, Journal of Marketing Research, 34 (3), pp. 347–356.

 

  1. Fournier, S. (1998), Consumers and Their Brands: Developing Relationship Theory in Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Research, 24 (4), pp. 343-353.

 

  1. Hatch, M.J. and M. Schultz (2010), Toward a Theory of Brand Co-creation with Implications for Brand Governance, Journal of Brand Management, 17 (8), pp. 590-604.

 

  1. Holt, D.B. (2002), Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectic Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding, Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (1), pp. 70-90.

 

  1. Keller, K.L. (1993), Conceptualizing, Measuring and Managing Customer-based Brand Equity, Journal of Marketing, 57 (January), pp. 1-22.

 

  1. Louro M.J. and P.V. Cunha (2001), Brand Management Paradigms, Journal of Marketing Management, 17, pp. 849-875.

 

  1. Merz, M., He, Y., and S.L. Vargo (2009), The Evolving Brand Logic: A Service-dominant Logic Perspective, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 37 (3), pp. 328-344.

 

  1. Muñiz Jr., A. M., and T. C. O'Guinn (2001), Brand Community, Journal of Consumer Research, 27 (4), pp. 412-432.

 

  1. Urde, M. (2013), The Corporate Brand Identity Matrix, Journal of Brand Management, 20 (9), pp. 742-761.

 

  1. Vallaster, C. and S. von Wallpach (2013), An Online Discursive Inquiry into the Social Dynamics of Multi-stakeholder Brand Meaning Co-creation, Journal of Business Research, Special Issue on Virtual Dialogue, 66 (9), pp. 1505-1515.
Last updated on 19-03-2015