Branding on B2B Corporations Trading Commodity Goods: Does It Really Matter? A Theoretical Essay

Trindade, Luiz Valério; Acevedo, Claudia Rosa

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“…It has been used as the sampling frame in other studies of B2B marketing (Juntunen et al. , 2020; Trindade and Acevedo, 2011) and was chosen because it is a well-known list of the largest global brands. Sampling units were the official LinkedIn home pages for these 20 brands, which are labeled as “Company” in search results within the site.…”

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“…The BrandZ B2B Top 20 List for 2019 (BrandZ B2B top 20, 2019) was used as the sampling frame; this list is a subset of the BrandZ Top 100 Global Brands 2019 list and can be seen in the supplemental materials. It has been used as the sampling frame in other studies of B2B marketing (Juntunen et al, 2020;Trindade and Acevedo, 2011) and was chosen because it is a well-known list of the largest global brands. Sampling units were the official LinkedIn home pages for these 20 brands, which are labeled as "Company" in search results within the site.…”

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Pandemic messaging to connect or to sell? B2B messaging strategies on LinkedIn regarding COVID-19

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PurposeThis study examines how the world's largest business-to-business (B2B) firms communicated about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on LinkedIn during the first months of the pandemic. A Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) framework (Coombs, 2004) is used to assess how pandemic message themes resembled and differed from those utilized in past crises.Design/methodology/approachResearchers examined all LinkedIn posts made by the 20 largest global B2B firms during February–October 2020 and assigned the posts to five message themes.FindingsConsistent with past crises, firms conveyed “instructing” information designed to help social media followers cope. However, some businesses also promoted products for use in dealing with COVID-19. This stands in contrast to past reluctance to promote products during a crisis due to fears of being viewed as acting inappropriately. Surprisingly, only about 9% of all posts related to COVID-19.Research limitations/implicationsResearch focused on the LinkedIn posts of the 20 largest B2B firms, limiting generalizability for smaller firms and for other social networks.Practical implicationsThis study provides insights into how marketers can communicate to their stakeholders during a crisis.Social implicationsThis study examines how reaction to COVID-19 was similar and different from message themes found during previous crises.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first to examine how businesses use LinkedIn to communicate with key constituencies. This study examines whether SCCT predicted strategies used by global B2B firms during the pandemic and considers whether expectations regarding crises may be changing.

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