TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing the Co-created Brand
T2 - Value and Cultural Complementarity in Online and Offline Multi-stakeholder Ecosystems
AU - Gyrd-Jones, Richard I.
AU - Kornum, Niels
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - The concepts of co-creation and co-communication are emerging concepts in the brand management literature that invoke multiple stakeholder interactions. However, this literature does not consider the impact of the complex ecosystems that lie behind both the brand and its stakeholders in order to create synergistic outcomes. By analyzing LEGO's relations with four stakeholder ecosystems we find that successful co-creation outcomes are dependent on value and cultural complementarities, but that these outcomes can be jeopardized when there are not also complementarities between the cultures in the process of direct firm–stakeholder interaction. To maximize co-creation the firm should remain open to input from all stakeholders, because even opposing stakeholders at the periphery of the ecosystem can contribute with valuable adjustments at the core.
AB - The concepts of co-creation and co-communication are emerging concepts in the brand management literature that invoke multiple stakeholder interactions. However, this literature does not consider the impact of the complex ecosystems that lie behind both the brand and its stakeholders in order to create synergistic outcomes. By analyzing LEGO's relations with four stakeholder ecosystems we find that successful co-creation outcomes are dependent on value and cultural complementarities, but that these outcomes can be jeopardized when there are not also complementarities between the cultures in the process of direct firm–stakeholder interaction. To maximize co-creation the firm should remain open to input from all stakeholders, because even opposing stakeholders at the periphery of the ecosystem can contribute with valuable adjustments at the core.
KW - Co-creation
KW - Multi-stakeholder interaction
KW - Online communities
KW - Complementarity
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.02.045
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.02.045
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 66
SP - 1484
EP - 1493
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
IS - 9
ER -