Varumärket Sverige - En fallstudie av de interna kommunikationsprocesserna kring Svenska institutets varumärkesplattform
(2011)Department of Strategic Communication
- Abstract
- Problem: Branding has developed from focusing on particular products, or organizations, to now currently on how to brand countries. When the brand is to represent a whole country, the organization needs to create conditions for employees to be able to “live the brand”. The study takes a new approach by, focusing on communication and sense making, bringing together research on nation branding with an integrated approach on branding where the internal and external parts of an organization is closely linked together. Purpose: This study aims to understand the internal communication processes in relation to a nation brand platform, and also to a certain extent, illustrate the complexity of nation branding. We aim to contribute to a deeper... (More)
- Problem: Branding has developed from focusing on particular products, or organizations, to now currently on how to brand countries. When the brand is to represent a whole country, the organization needs to create conditions for employees to be able to “live the brand”. The study takes a new approach by, focusing on communication and sense making, bringing together research on nation branding with an integrated approach on branding where the internal and external parts of an organization is closely linked together. Purpose: This study aims to understand the internal communication processes in relation to a nation brand platform, and also to a certain extent, illustrate the complexity of nation branding. We aim to contribute to a deeper insight on how employees' understanding of brand values can be created and if the values can help employees to represent and “live the brand”. Methodology: A case study carried out at the Swedish Institute, including qualitative, in-depth interviews with nine employees. Conclusion: In order to successfully integrate the brand into the organization, for example by using a brand platform, meaningful communication plays a key role. This increases the importance of communicative leadership and to allow dialogue and participation, which are not constrained by organizational structure barriers. Considering the complexity of nation branding, employees’ understanding for and ability to live the brand values becomes even more critical. (Less)
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- author
- Petersson, Emmy and Gustafsson, Sanna
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2011
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- nation branding, internal branding, organizational communication, sense making, dialogue, communicative leadership
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 2163506
- date added to LUP
- 2011-09-21 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2018-10-18 10:18:00
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abstract = {{Problem: Branding has developed from focusing on particular products, or organizations, to now currently on how to brand countries. When the brand is to represent a whole country, the organization needs to create conditions for employees to be able to “live the brand”. The study takes a new approach by, focusing on communication and sense making, bringing together research on nation branding with an integrated approach on branding where the internal and external parts of an organization is closely linked together. Purpose: This study aims to understand the internal communication processes in relation to a nation brand platform, and also to a certain extent, illustrate the complexity of nation branding. We aim to contribute to a deeper insight on how employees' understanding of brand values can be created and if the values can help employees to represent and “live the brand”. Methodology: A case study carried out at the Swedish Institute, including qualitative, in-depth interviews with nine employees. Conclusion: In order to successfully integrate the brand into the organization, for example by using a brand platform, meaningful communication plays a key role. This increases the importance of communicative leadership and to allow dialogue and participation, which are not constrained by organizational structure barriers. Considering the complexity of nation branding, employees’ understanding for and ability to live the brand values becomes even more critical.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Varumärket Sverige - En fallstudie av de interna kommunikationsprocesserna kring Svenska institutets varumärkesplattform}},
year = {{2011}},
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