University of Bath School of Management University of Bath School of Management

Professor Richard Elliott

Professor Richard Elliott
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Books
Refereed Journal Papers
Book Chapters

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BSc, PhD, DipM, DipSW, MCIM

Job Title:

Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research

Subject Group:

Marketing

Key Research Interests:

Symbolic meaning of brands, consumer culture and identity, and the dynamics of brand ecology.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the symbolic meaning of brands, advertising, consumer culture and identity. My recent publications include: The Evolution of the Empowered Consumer (European Journal of Marketing); Idealised Images of the Male Body in Advertising: A Reader Response Exploration (Journal of Marketing Communications); Peer Pressure and Poverty: Exploring Fashion Brands and Consumption Symbolism Amongst Children of the British Poor (Journal of Consumer Behaviour). I have carried out consultancy work in ethnography and consumer insight for BT, Diageo, Capital One Bank, Unilever, Asda and Orange. On the MSc in Marketing programme, I teach Strategic Brand Management.

Publications

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Books

Elliott, R. (ed). 2008. Brands and Brand Management. London: Routledge.

Saren, M., Maclaren, P., Goulding, C., Elliot, R., Shankar, A. & Catterall, M. (eds). 2007. Critical Marketing: Defining the Field. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Elliott, R. & Percy, L. 2006. Strategic Brand Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Percy, L. & Elliott, R. 2005. Strategic Advertising Management. 2nd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Percy, L., Rossiter, J. & Elliott, R. 2001. Strategic Advertising Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Refereed journal papers

Huang H, Mitchell V & Elliott R (2012) Are Consumer and Brand Personalities the Same? Pyschology and Marketing 29(5):334-349 DOI:10.1002/mar.20525

Gylling C, Elliott R & Toivonen M (2012) Co-Creation of Meaning As a Prerequisite For Market-Focused Strategic Flexibility European Journal of Marketing 46(10):1283-1301 DOI:10.1108/03090561211248035

Yannopoulou N, Koronis E, & Elliott R (2010). Media Amplification of Brand Crisis and its affect on Brand Trust. Journal of Marketing Management.  DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2010.498141

Goulding C, Shankar A, Elliott R & Canniford R (2009). Market Place Management of Illicit  Pleasure. Journal of Consumer Research. 35(5): 759-771. DOI: 10.1086/592946

Goulding C, Shanker A, Elliott R & Canniford R. (2008). Contained illegality and biosocial pleasure in club culture. Journal of Consumer Research.

Elliott R & Cova B (2008). Interpretive consumer research as cultural critique. Consumption, Markets and Culture. 11(2):71-72.
DOI:10.1080/1025860802033563.

Cova B & Elliott R (2008). Everything you always wanted to know about interpretive consumer research but were afraid to ask. Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal. 11(2):121-129 DOI: N/A

Yannopoulou N & Elliott R (2008). Open verses closed advertising texts and interpretive communities, International Journal of Advertising, 27(1):35-49.

► older publications

Elliott R & Yannopoulou N (2007). The nature of trust in brands: A psychosocial model, European Journal of Marketing, 41(9/10):988-998. DOI: N/A

Davies A & Elliott R (2006). The evolution of the empowered consumer. European Journal of Marketing. 40(9/10):1106-1121.
DOI:10.1108/03090560610681032

Woodruffe-Burton H & Elliott R (2005). Compensatory consumption and narrative identity theory. Advances in consumer research, Association for Consumer Research. 32(1):461-465. DOI: N/A

Millan E & Elliott R (2004). Offensive advertising, public policy and the law: the rulings on the zagorka case. Journal of Consumer Policy. 27(4):475-494.  DOI: 10.1007/s10603-004-2719-0

Worren N, Moore K, & Elliott R (2002). When theories become tools: toward a framework for pragmatic validity. Human Relations. 55(10):1227-1249.  DOI:10.1177/0018726702055010082

Patterson M & Elliott R (2002). Negotiating masculinities: advertising and the inversion of the male gaze. Consumption Markets & Culture. 5 (3):231-246.  DOI:10.1080/10253860290031631

Auty S & Elliott R (2001). Being like or being liked: identity vs. approval in a social context. Advances in Consumer Research. 28(1):235-241. DOI: N/A

Book Chapters

Elliott, R & Davies, A. 2006. Using Oral History Methods in Consumer Research, in R. Belk (ed.) Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing, London: Edward Elgar

Elliott, R. & Davies, A. 2005. Symbolic Brands and Authenticity of Identity Performance in Schroeder, J & Salzer-Morling, M. (eds.) Brand Culture. London: Routledge

Elliott, R. 2004. Consumer Behaviour in Kuper, A. & Kuper, J. (eds.),The Social Science Encyclopædia (3rd edition) London: Routledge

Elliott, R. 2004. Making Up People: Consumption as a Symbolic Vocabulary for the Construction of Identity in Ekstrom K. & Brembek H. (eds.) Elusive Consumption: Tracking New Research Perspectives, Oxford: Berg.

Mark, A., Pencheon, D. & Elliott, R. 2001. Demanding to Manage or Managing to Demand? in Tavakoli, M., Davies, H.T.O. & Malek, M. (eds.) Health Policy and Economics: Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, London: Ashgate