2018
DOI: 10.1108/jhrm-06-2017-0026
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Lessons from nearly a century of the brand management system

Abstract: Purpose -T he aim of this essay is to perform a historical analysis of the Brand Management System (BMS) in order to understand why and how, over the past century, the BMS has become the dominant marketing organizational model across Western countries and sectors and what the lessons are that can be learned from history to enlighten its current changes in today's digitized environment. Me thodology/approach -Building on Low and Fullerton's work (1994), the paper traces the evolution of the BMS from its creatio… Show more

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“…Many of the marketing textbooks prescribed in business schools (e.g. starting with Kotler's first edition in 1967) were devoted to large firm brand models with the original brand manager construct purportedly started by P&G and Johnson & Johnson in the 1930s (see Aim e et al, 2018;Low and Fullerton, 1994, for the history of the brand manager system). Building strong brand portfolios are seen to imbue organizations with competitive advantages and archetypically developed via brand creation, extension and acquisition strategies (Aaker, 2020;Damoiseau et al, 2011;Doyle, 1990).…”
Section: Theoretical Background 21 Incumbents and Brand Entrepreneursmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Many of the marketing textbooks prescribed in business schools (e.g. starting with Kotler's first edition in 1967) were devoted to large firm brand models with the original brand manager construct purportedly started by P&G and Johnson & Johnson in the 1930s (see Aim e et al, 2018;Low and Fullerton, 1994, for the history of the brand manager system). Building strong brand portfolios are seen to imbue organizations with competitive advantages and archetypically developed via brand creation, extension and acquisition strategies (Aaker, 2020;Damoiseau et al, 2011;Doyle, 1990).…”
Section: Theoretical Background 21 Incumbents and Brand Entrepreneursmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many of the marketing textbooks prescribed in business schools (e.g. starting with Kotler's first edition in 1967) were devoted to large firm brand models with the original brand manager construct purportedly started by P&G and Johnson & Johnson in the 1930s (see Aimé et al. , 2018; Low and Fullerton, 1994, for the history of the brand manager system).…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the past decade, the literature has identified changes and conflicting obligations for the marketing function, all of which are areas of uncertainty and issues for managers and researchers (Aimé et al, 2018;Moorman & Day, 2016). Firstly, D 3 ("digital, datarich, and developing market") environments have produced a considerable increase in the amount of data since the early days of the Internet and, in particular, since the advent of social networks (Sridhar & Fang, 2019).…”
Section: Theoretical Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These mutations generate tremendous tension, put growing pressure on marketing departments to perform (Whitler & Morgan, 2017), and entail organizational changes. So far, marketing organizations have managed to evolve and adapt, despite predictions that technological revolutions would cause marketing organizations to disappear (Aimé et al, 2018). Does digital transformation jeopardize marketing?…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%