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How brands (don't) do things

"Corporate branding as practices of imagining "commens

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ID4472269
AuthorsKyung-Nan Koh (0000-0001-5625-4710, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume2015
Issue207
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2015-0055
OpenAlexW2564926008
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited37

How do brands do things (if, indeed, they do)? Using ethnographic data gathered inside a Hawaiian corporation, this paper examines how the brand form is developed imaginatively by stitching together the various voices of corporate stakeholders and also organizing the relationship between the corporation or their products and the targeted publics as participants in a hypothetical semiotic participation framework. The concept of

Advertising · Brand management · Business · Corporate branding · Corporation · Ethnography · Image stitching · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Publics · Semiotics · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising

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Citations per year0,27
Citation span2015 - 2025 (11)
Citation velocityrecent
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