HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE

Shaping a recognizable image/brand of a particular town/city has become one of the possibilities to achieve the competitive advantage on the contemporary territory market. The main purpose of the paper is to present the categories of place brand identity distinguishing features identified by local s...

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Main Author: Ewa Glińska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo SGGW - Warsaw University od Life Sciences Press 2013-12-01
Series:Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing
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Online Access:https://pefim.sggw.edu.pl/article/view/1365
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description Shaping a recognizable image/brand of a particular town/city has become one of the possibilities to achieve the competitive advantage on the contemporary territory market. The main purpose of the paper is to present the categories of place brand identity distinguishing features identified by local stakeholders. The results of the research includes suggestions how to select attributes of urban identity in relation to image management especially in small towns. The research method used in developing this paper was focus group interviews (FGIs) carried out in the period July 2011 - June 2012 in nine towns in Podlaskie region in Poland. The FGIs’ participants were moderated towards identifying their towns’ identity distinguishing features which seem most attractive from the marketing point of view and could potentially be used by local authorities in the process of place branding. Statements of the participants interviewed have identified two groups of the distinguishing characteristics of the specific nature of the analyzed towns: the emotional attributes and functional attributes. In the first category such as distinguishing characteristics of the town are located like: the atmosphere, the history and local culture, and human potential. The other category consists of: technical facilities, social investment, as well as the strategic location and the products of local companies.
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spelling doaj.art-9045f324f9154b1f83c9391e59544f412023-10-30T15:12:08ZengWydawnictwo SGGW - Warsaw University od Life Sciences PressPolityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing2081-34302544-06402013-12-0110(59)HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVEEwa Glińska0Bialystok University of TechnologyShaping a recognizable image/brand of a particular town/city has become one of the possibilities to achieve the competitive advantage on the contemporary territory market. The main purpose of the paper is to present the categories of place brand identity distinguishing features identified by local stakeholders. The results of the research includes suggestions how to select attributes of urban identity in relation to image management especially in small towns. The research method used in developing this paper was focus group interviews (FGIs) carried out in the period July 2011 - June 2012 in nine towns in Podlaskie region in Poland. The FGIs’ participants were moderated towards identifying their towns’ identity distinguishing features which seem most attractive from the marketing point of view and could potentially be used by local authorities in the process of place branding. Statements of the participants interviewed have identified two groups of the distinguishing characteristics of the specific nature of the analyzed towns: the emotional attributes and functional attributes. In the first category such as distinguishing characteristics of the town are located like: the atmosphere, the history and local culture, and human potential. The other category consists of: technical facilities, social investment, as well as the strategic location and the products of local companies.https://pefim.sggw.edu.pl/article/view/1365place brandplace identitystakeholders participation
spellingShingle Ewa Glińska
HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing
place brand
place identity
stakeholders participation
title HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
title_full HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
title_fullStr HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
title_full_unstemmed HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
title_short HOW TO SEARCH THE PLACE BRAND IDENTITY DISTINGUISHED FEATURES? THE LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVE
title_sort how to search the place brand identity distinguished features the local stakeholders perspective
topic place brand
place identity
stakeholders participation
url https://pefim.sggw.edu.pl/article/view/1365
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