Ebook: Contemporary thinking, topics and trends in international branding - Part 1

International branding, as an area of research in international marketing, needs a domain and an impetus of its own. This e-book seeks to lift international branding out of out the shadow of international marketing and out of a pattern of largely replication studies centered on the standardization/localization debate. The articles that comprise the e-book seek a more comprehensive understanding of the dimensions of international branding and of its related paradigms. The international focus and affiliations of the academics contributing to this compendium add to the interesting diversity inherent in the papers. Moreover, the intentions of the guest editors have been to make a contribution to closing the gaps which still exist within international marketing research. In doing so, the collected papers have pushed the extant knowledge and understanding of international branding, and will guide future research endeavors.