Professor of Brand Management, University of Sussex
Currently Head of Department and Professor of Brand Management at the University of Sussex Business School. I have previously worked in various business schools including the University of Bath, University of Melbourne, and Monash University. My research has focused on the market for authenticity, summarised in my book Building Brand Authenticity: 7 Habits of Iconic Brands. I am interested I all aspects of branding, including the focus on authenticity, responding to crises, brand purpose and storytelling, branding and national identity, all of which are included in my best selling textbook Brand Management: Cocreating Meaningful Brands 2nd ed (Sage 2021). My current work examines the analog revival and argues that the old has value because it is more difficult to use.
Netflix show brings back Blockbuster, but some brands should stay dead
Nov 25, 2022 14:43 pm UTC| Business
Streaming services are replete with stories of the dead coming back to life. Theyre also chock-full with dead or almost dead brands. Shows like Stranger Things have not only given new life to 1980s pop classics like Kate...
How Phil Collins became cool (no, really)
May 20, 2021 01:08 am UTC| Entertainment
In August 2020, a YouTube video featuring Tim and Fred Williams, 21-year old twins from Gary, Indiana, went viral. In it, the two young men were listening to Phil Collins 1981 hit song In The Air Tonight for the first...
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