This special issue of the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, "Creativity and Passion between Global Branding and Country of Origin Roots", includes five articles selected from papers presented during the IMTC/KSMS Joint Symposium 2012 Global Marketing Conference held from 19 to 22...

<em>Place marketing network evolution and investment attraction</em> (by Gaetano Aiello, Raffaele Donvito) - ABSTRACT: This paper is based on a relationship marketing perspective and points out the evolutional nature of place marketing networks. According to this framework place marketing is defined as...

This research aims to update the factors influencing consumer purchase of luxury goods and, more specifically, to consider the combined effect of brand and country of origin (CoO) on the purchasing decision. This article extends an exploratory phase constructed from qualitative data previously...

This article addresses the topic of creativity at the geographic territory level from a network perspective. Its objective is to propose an innovative representational model of creative networks in geographical territories that is suitable for analyzing the process of the management of...

This research aims to extend the analysis of the factors influencing consumer purchase of luxury goods. The effects of brand and country of origin (CoO) on the purchase decision are specifically considered. A total sample of 1103 respondents in seven countries (China, France, India, Italy,...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide scholars and practitioners with an innovative method of analyzing luxury brand associations in social media (i.e. Twitter). To do so, authors investigated the alignment between luxury brand identity and luxury brand image in online communication, taking into...