Consumer Brand Value Co-creation Typology

Abstract

Co-creation is said to take place in a variety of domains when two or more actors interact to create value. The topic of brand co-creation has been in the literature for 15 years. During this time, a multitude of concepts, constructs and behaviours about co-creation have been presented in the marketing literature. The result is a fragmented research area with little underlying consensus about how co-creation occurs between consumers and brands. The purpose of this article is to propose a brand co-creation typology, with the goal of consolidating existing work into a unified framework and providing a roadmap for practitioners to use co-creation in a more informed fashion. This typology creates avenues for future research through empirical testing.