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JOURNAL OF PRODUCT AND BRAND MANAGEMENT
卷 31, 期 1, 页码 73-95出版社
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/JPBM-05-2020-2921
关键词
Heritage; Place branding; Life stories; People experience; Place experience; Brand heritage; Place experience
资金
- MICA, Ahmedabad, India
This paper examines the role of residents as co-creators in the formation of a place brand, highlighting the importance of residents' life stories, past experiences, feelings, and aspirations in relation to the place brand. When residents perceive the place and people components positively, they actively participate and become ambassadors for the place.
Purpose A place brand is a culmination of its exclusive history, people and traditions that affect customer and community experiences. Place branding has become increasingly important for collective heritage brand strategy, as stakeholders undertake efforts to create an aura of a distinctive geographic location. Though place branding has received considerable scholarly attention, there is a lacuna: the role of residents as co-creators of a place and its heritage. Accordingly, this paper aims to develop a bi-directional participatory place branding model by applying the stimulus-organism-response approach grounded theory. Design/methodology/approach A grounded theory approach with multi-sited ethnography, personal interviews (with residents and city leaders) and observational techniques were adopted in a UNESCO world heritage city of India, Ahmedabad. Findings The findings indicate that the people (residents) aspect of place branding is associated with their life stories, past experiences, feelings and aspirations. However, the place acts as a nostalgia enabler, disseminating symbolic and heritage metaphors to residents and visitors as place brand ambassadors. When the place and people components are perceived positively, residents participate involve themselves with the place and thus, in turn, become the place ambassadors. Originality/value No prior studies have analyzed the association between residents, the place where they reside and the resultant behavior toward the place. The unique contribution is the bi-directional participatory place branding model, especially involving a UNESCO world heritage city rather than solely a site.
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