THE BOOK

CEO Branding advances our understanding of the importance and impact that CEOs have on companies. In recent years, there has been a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on this powerful aspect of branding, and editor Fetscherin has invited a leading panel of international scholars and practitioners to contribute original chapters in their area of expertise.

The book introduces the concept of the CEO as a brand, and outlines the “4Ps” of this branding mix – the CEO (person), personality, prestige (reputation), and performance. It discusses the CEO branding process, and demonstrates the many ways in which this ‘human brand’ affects the company in financial terms (such as performance, profit, and stock returns), as well as non-financial terms (reputation, trust, and firm strategy). The book also includes ‘lessons learned’ and many examples that illustrate how companies can measure and manage the CEO brand.

This comprehensive, authoritative volume will give students, researchers, as well as marketing and communication managers and specifically CEO’s a thorough understanding of all aspects of the CEO brand. A must read for any CEO who is serious about developing, managing and measuring their own.

CEO BRANDING

THEORY & PRACTICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Foreword by Suzanne Bates

Foreward by Leslie Gaines-Ross

The 4P's of CEO branding, by Marc Fetscherin

Part I CEO Branding Process

The Power and Purpose of a CEO Brand
CEO Brand Development: The Role of Executive Legacy Motivation
CEO Branding: How Perception Defines Reality
CEO Brand “Disaster Avoidance Kit”

Part II CEO Reputation and Firm Performance and Reputation

The Causes and Relations of Corporate and CEO Reputation
How does CEO Reputation Matter? Impact of CEO Reputation on Corporate Reputation
CEO RepTrak®: Assessing the Reputations of Top Corporate Executives

Part III CEO Personality and Firm Performance and Reputation

Do Personal Traits Matter? CEO’s and Directors’ Risk Taking and Firm Environmental Performance
Competent or Ethical? – Impact of CEO Characteristics on Corporate Reputation
CEO Championing of Pricing and Firm Performance in Industrial Firms
Sharing the Throne: Co-CEO and Co-Chairman Leadership Structure and Firm Performance

Part IV The CEO (Person) and Firm Performance and Reputation

CEO Facial Appearance and Firm Performance
The Emergence of the Social CEO
CEO Turnover and Firm Performance
CEO Networks and the M&A Market

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PUBLISHER

Founded in 1851, Routledge is a global publisher of academic books, journals, and online resources in the humanities and social sciences. Publishing over 1,000 journals and 2, 000 new books a year, Routledge has published many of the greatest thinkers and scholars of the last hundred years, including Adorno, Einstein, Russell, Wittgenstein, Jung, Hayek, Marcuse and Sartre.