Sectorial Brands As a Legitimation Tool For Emerging Market Firm’S Internationalization: the Case of ‘Din Inimă’ Umbrella Brand in Moldova

We examine how sectorial brands facilitate legitimation of emerging market firms aiming to internationalise. Using a longitudinal case of ‘Din Inimă’, a sectorial fashion brand in Moldova, we identified three brand-mediated legitimation mechanisms: material (expanding international networks), rhetorical (selective framing to reposition understandings of Moldovan producers), and symbolic collectivity (community).



Citation:

Zahra Sharifonnasabi and Mirela Barbu (2021) ,"Sectorial Brands As a Legitimation Tool For Emerging Market Firm’S Internationalization: the Case of ‘Din Inimă’ Umbrella Brand in Moldova", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 921-921.

Authors

Zahra Sharifonnasabi, Queen Mary University of London
Mirela Barbu, University of Sussex



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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