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Can Chinese brands compete with western rivals?
中国品牌能与西方竞争对手抗衡吗?
Professor Stephen Woolgar has been working with leading Chinese manufacturing and service organisations on brand strategy.
30 January 2006 /2006年1月30日
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The Saïd Business School’s Professor Stephen Woolgar has been working with leading Chinese manufacturing and service organisations, in conjunction with the World Executive Institute on brand strategy. The World Executive Institute is a leading executive communications and brand evaluation company, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York and numerous other Chinese cities.
As part of his work, Woolgar was invited to give the keynote address at the World Brand Summit in Beijing on 6 August 2005. He delivered a presentation on Brand Strategy in High Tech Organisations before 350 CEOs of leading Chinese companies in the Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square. Many companies continue to neglect branding investment and strategy in relation to high tech products, due to the mistaken view that the emergence and uptake of these products is technically determined. Against this background, Woolgar stressed the importance of a constructivist and relational understanding of the likely fate of different high tech brands.
The World Brand Summit, organised by the World Executive Limited, saw the publication of the list of Chinas 500 Most Valuable Brands by the World Brand Lab and the World Economic Forum. At the event, Woolgar also presented awards to those companies whose brand had increased most in value over the previous twelve months.
On 19 December 2005, Woolgar also gave the keynote speech to 200 delegates at the World Executive Summit in Hong Kong on the subject of The China Brand Problem. The “China brand problem” refers to the way the Chinese marketplace values Western brands more highly than its own, one result of which is the decreasing visibility of distinctively Chinese products in the export market. Woolgar explored some ways in which this problem might be redressed, drawing on recent theories of brands as cultural artefacts, whose uptake and use is socially distributed. Some theories predict that success will depend on the extent to which Chinese brands can find resonance with pressing social and political concerns in their target market.
Stephen Woolgar is a sociologist who holds the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School. Among his other interests he leads a team of researchers working on various aspects of social studies of science and technology. His current research also includes a study of governance and accountability relations in mundane technical solutions to public problems, and an investigation of the social dynamics of provocation.
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