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Event brand consistency at the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games

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posted on 2016-04-18, 13:37 authored by James Andrew KenyonJames Andrew Kenyon, Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Guillaume S.P. Bodet
Following the growing appreciation for the coherency of brands received by numerous stakeholder groups (i.e. the brand image) (for example, the media and the public), the achievement of brand consistency has increasingly come to be considered a priority in today’s business environment (Madhavaram, Badrinarayanan & McDonald, 2005). The increasing awareness of a wider audience that brands now have access to – caused by the proliferation of media (traditional and digital) and the gradual power shift in communications from organisation to stakeholders –, have underlined the need to reduce the polyphony of perceptions that might exist around a brand, in order for a coherent and consistent brand identity to be achieved (Duncan & Moriarty, 1997); that is, quite simply, the creation and maintenance of a strong brand identity-image link (Srivastava, 2011). The assumption here then is that if consistency and coherency are achieved, this can have a direct impact upon an organisation’s communications campaign effectiveness and the brand’s market-based and financial performance (Luxton, Reid & Mavondo, 2015). Yet, despite the perceived importance of such an accomplishment, there have been relatively few studies that have sought to determine whether brand consistency is ever in fact realised. With that in mind then, the aim of this study was to investigate the brand consistency of ‘the sports world’s most powerful brand’, the Olympic brand (Seguin & O’Reilly, 2008, p.62), and specifically, that of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing

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KENYON, J.A., MANOLI, A.E. and BODET, G.P., 2016. Event brand consistency at the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Presented at: The 4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing (ICCMI 4), 22nd-24th June 2016, Heraklion, Greece.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016-03-31

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2016

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This is a conference paper.

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  • en

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Heraklion, Greece

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