Asian Brands and the Shaping of a Transnational Imagined Community

Julien Cayla and Giana M. Eckhardt

Journal of Consumer Research, 2008, vol. 35, issue 2, 216-230

Abstract: We investigate how brand managers create regional Asian brands and show how some of them are attempting to forge new webs of interconnectedness through the construction of a transnational, imagined Asian world. Some branding managers are creating regional brands that emphasize the common experience of globalization, evoke a generic, hyper-urban, and multicultural experience, and are infused with diverse cultural referents. These types of regional Asian brands contribute to the creation of an imagined Asia as urban, modern, and multicultural. Understanding this process helps one to appreciate the role of branding managers in constructing markets and places. (c) 2008 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc..

Date: 2008
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