User-Generated Content and its Impact on Branding : How Users and Communities Create and Manage Brands in Social Media

Dennhardt, Severin

ISBN 10: 365802349X / ISBN 13: 9783658023492

Published by Springer VS, 2013

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The emergence of social media as one of the driving forces of consumers¿ online experiences today also challenges our current understanding on marketing and brand management. The effects of brands¿ social media involvement are to this day uncertain. Severin Dennhardt shows that social media and user-generated brands do have a strong influence on brands. Four independent studies demonstrate that first, successful brands can be created in virtual worlds, second, user-generated content drives the creation of unique brands, third social media strongly influences the social value perception of brands, and fourth,  social media impacts consumers¿ purchase decision process.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: User-Generated Content and its Impact on Branding : How Users and Communities Create and Manage Brands in Social Media
• Publisher: Springer VS
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 365802349X
• ISBN 13: 9783658023492
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

The emergence of social media as one of the driving forces of consumers’ online experiences today also challenges our current understanding on marketing and brand management. The effects of brands’ social media involvement are to this day uncertain. Severin Dennhardt shows that social media and user-generated brands do have a strong influence on brands. Four independent studies demonstrate that first, successful brands can be created in virtual worlds, second, user-generated content drives the creation of unique brands, third social media strongly influences the social value perception of brands, and fourth,  social media impacts consumers’ purchase decision process.

About the Author

Dr. Severin Dennhardt wrote his dissertation under Prof. Dr. Kurt Matzler’s supervision at the Chair of Strategic Management and Leadership at the University of Innsbruck.