Bernard COVA

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Bernard Cova is Senior Professor of Marketing at Kedge Business School. A pioneer in the field of collective consumption since the early nineties, his internationally-influential research has paved the way to brand community approaches. His work on this topic has been among others published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Organization, the European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Theory and the Journal of Business Research.. He is also known for his groundbreaking research in B2B marketing, especially in the field of solution marketing. His work on this topic has been published in the Journal of Marketing Management, the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, and Industrial Marketing Management.

    Recent publications
    Publication Year of publication Type of publication
    COVA, B., G. MONTEVERDE, A. RUNFOLA, "Activist entrepreneurship for a sustainable future: an integrative framework", Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2024 2024 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, A. NEMANI, Start-up tribu - 2e édition. Comment entreprendre avec sa communauté., Éditions JFD, Montreal, Canada, 2024 2024 Book
    COVA, B., F. BARES, "Extricating the concept of linking value from its tribal gangue", Marketing Theory, 2024 2024 Journal article
    D'ANTONE, S., B. COVA, "Functional and Symbolic Learning in CoPs: Impact on Community Dynamics", Management International, 2024 2024 Journal article
    FUSCHILLO, G., J. CAYLA, B. COVA, "Saved by a brand: an odyssey of personal deliverance", Marketing Theory, 2024 2024 Journal article
    DESSART, L., B. COVA, N. DAVIGNON, "How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective", Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2024, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 840-865 2024 Journal article
    COVA, B., S. GUERCINI, "Tribal entrepreneurs: Caught in the crossfire of the tribal and market logics?", Consumption Markets & Culture, 2024, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-16 2024 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, "Plaidoyer pour une prise en compte de la proposition de valeur de liaison entre consommateurs dans le champ de l’entrepreneuriat", Revue Internationale PME, 2023, vol. 36, no. 3-4, pp. 167-177 2023 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, "Mouvements de consommateurs activistes : Entre cadrage des fondateurs et auto-organisation des membres", Recherche et Applications en Marketing, 2023, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 14– 39 2023 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, A. NEMANI, START-UPS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, Great Britain, 2023 2023 Book
    COVA, B., A. SHANKAR, J. COFFIN , "Marketplaces Cultures" in Consumer Culture Theory Second Edition., Eric Arnould, Craig Thompson, David Crockett & Michelle Weinberger Eds, Sage, pp. 97-110, 2023 2023 Book chapter
    SKÅLÉN, P., B. COVA, J. GUMMERUS J, A. SIHVONEN, "Marketing-as-practice: A framework and research agenda for value-creating marketing activity", Marketing Theory, 2023, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 185-206 2023 Journal article
    CARU, A., B. COVA, Z. VOSS, "Disruptive Audience Performance: The Extremes of the Duet Applauses/Boos", International Journal of Arts Management, 2023, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 72-81 2023 Journal article
    COVA, B., "How the ‘invisible diaspora hand’ moves brands and places", Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 2022, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 585-595 2022 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, "Co-creating Brand Value with Diaspora Volunteers", Management International, 2022, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 253-270 2022 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, A. NEMANI, Start Up Tribu; Comment entreprendre avec sa communauté, Editions EMS, Caen, France, 2022 2022 Book
    FUSCHILLO, G., J. CAYLA, B. COVA, "Brand magification: when brands help people reconstruct their life", European Journal of Marketing, 2022, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 768-789 2022 Journal article
    COVA, V., B. COVA, "Réenchanter l’expérience de consummation par la douleur : Un moyen ‘magique’ d’accéder au salut ?," in Variations sur la consommation et la distribution : Individus, expériences, systèmes.., Des Garets, V. & Paché, G. Eds, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, pp. 51-57, 2022 2022 Book chapter
    COVA, B., L. DESSART, "You’ll Never Walk Alone: Socializing and Finding your Tribe in a Digital Age" in The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption 2e Edition., Rosa Llamas and Russell Belk Ed., Routledge, chap. 41, pp. 218-227, 2022 2022 Book chapter
    COVA, B., L. CANTONE, P. P. TESTA, "Giving form to future branding realities.", Journal of Service Management, 2022, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 417-427 2022 Journal article
    GUERCINI, S., B. COVA, "How innovation nurtures well-being in enthusiast communities", Innovation: Organization & Management , 2022, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 522-551 2022 Journal article
    COVA, B., "Ventolin: A market icon", Consumption Markets & Culture, Spring 2022, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 195-205 2022 Journal article
    WELTÉ, J. B., J. CAYLA, B. COVA, "The intimacy trap: Navigating the commercial friendships of luxury", Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 145, pp. 649-659 2022 Journal article
    COVA, B., F. BARES, A. NEMANI, "Creating a Brand Community at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Case of a Cameroonian Music Platform", Journal of Marketing Management, 2021, vol. 37, no. 9-10, pp. 887-913 2021 Journal article
    DESSART, L., B. COVA, "Brand repulsion: consumers’ boundary work with rejected brands", European Journal of Marketing, 2021, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1285-1311 2021 Journal article
    COVA, B., "The New Frontier of Consumer Experiences: Escape through Pain", Academy of Marketing Science Review (AMS Review), 2021, vol. 11, pp. 60-69 2021 Journal article
    COVA, B., R. SPENCER, F. N. H. FERREIRA, J. PROENÇA, "Understanding the morphing of focal nets in the solution business: a triad management perspective", Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 2021, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2243-2256. 2021 Journal article
    COVA, B., B. S. IVENS, R. SPENCER, "The ins and outs of market shaping: Exclusion as a darkside?", Journal of Business Research, 2021, vol. 124, pp. 483-493 2021 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, G. FARDE, R. SALLE, "Caught in the crossfire of orders of worth: A failed attempt by a small business to reconfigure a French public sector", Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2020, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 203-222 2020 Journal article
    COVA, B., "Living Parallel Lives: Karin, Henrikki, Me and the Others" in Henrikki Tikkanen 50., Juho-Petteri Huhtala & Joel Hietanen Ed., Nordic Institute of Business & Society, pp. 162-175, 2020 2020 Book chapter
    CANTONE, L., B. COVA, P. P. TESTA, "Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Post-postmodern Zeitgeist: The ‘Postcard’ from Italy", Marketing Theory, 2020, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 481-500 2020 Journal article
    CARU, A., B.COVA, "Experiencing Consumption" in Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective 2nd Edition., Penaloza, L., Toulouse, N. & Visconti, L.M. Eds, Routledge, pp. 139-152, 2020 2020 Book chapter
    COVA, B., A.SHANKAR, "Tribal Marketing" in Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective 2nd Edition., Penaloza, L., Toulouse, N. & Visconti, L.M. Eds, Routledge, pp. 168-182, 2020 2020 Book chapter
    COVA, B., "To Change the Law, Defy the Law: Hijacking the Cause and Co-opting Its Advocate", Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 2020, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 430-443 2020 Journal article
    COVA, B., P. COHENDET, L. SIMON, K. GOGLIO-PRIMARD, ""Innover avec et par les communautés: Un nouveau défi pour les entreprises !" Intro", Revue Française de Gestion, 2020, vol. 287, no. 2, pp. 69-79 2020 Journal article
    COVA, B., "Entre communautarisation de la consommation et marchandisation de la vie quotidienne" in Les reconfigurations de l'échange marchand., Myriam Ertz, Damien Hallegate & Julien Bousquet Eds, Presses de l'Université du Québec, chap. Préface, pp. VII-XVI, 2019 2019 Book chapter
    COVA, B., B.PARANQUE, "Tensions between Value Capture and Value Slippage: The Case of Brand Communities", Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 2019, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 35-46 2019 Journal article
    COVA, B., P. SKALEN, S. PACE, "Interpersonal practice in project marketing: How institutional logics condition and change them", Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 2019, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 723-734 2019 Journal article
    COVA, V., B.COVA, "Pain, suffering and the consumption of spirituality: a toe story", Journal of Marketing Management, 2019, vol. 35, no. 5-6, pp. 565-585 2019 Journal article
    COVA, B., "Jamais sans ma tribu ? Modulations de la relation de service en marketing tribal", Decisions Marketing, 2019, no. 95, pp. 15-32 2019 Journal article
    COVA, V., B. COVA, "Experience copycats. The Compostela case", Journal of Product and Brand Management, 2019, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 720-732 2019 Journal article
    AARIKKA-STENROOS, L., L.AABOEN, B.COVA, A.ROLSFEN, "Building B2B relationships via initiation contributors: Three cases from the Norwegian-South Korean international project business", Industrial Marketing Management, 2018, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 74-85 2018 Journal article
    COVA, B., A.CARU, J.CAYLA, "Re-conceptualizing escape in consumer research", Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 2018, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 445-464 2018 Journal article
    COVA, B., A.SHANKAR, "Consumption tribes and collective performance" in Consumer Culture Theory., Eric J. Arnould & Craig J Thompson Ed., Sage, pp. 88-106, 2018 2018 Book chapter
    COVA, B., D.DALLI, "Prosumption tribes: How consumers collectively rework brands, products, services and markets" in The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture., Olga Kravets, Pauline Maclaran, Steven Miles & Alladi Venkatesh Eds, Sage, pp. 235-255, 2018 2018 Book chapter
    COVA, B., G.GAGLIO, J.WEBER, P.CHANIAL, "Organizational Sensemaking of Non-ethical Consumer Behavior: Case Study of a French Mutual Insurance Company", Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, vol. 148, no. 4, pp. 783-799 2018 Journal article
    COVA, B., P.CHANIAL, A.CAILLE, G.GAGLIO, J.WEBER, "Gérer par la valeur sociale : Un pari impossible pour les mutuelles ?" in GESS : Gestion des Entreprises Sociales et Solidaires., Amina BEJI-BECHEUR, Pénélope CODELLO, Pascale CHATEAU TERRISSE Eds, Editions EMS, pp. 83-104., 2018 2018 Book chapter
    GUERCINI, S., B.COVA, "Unconventional entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Research, 2018, vol. 92, no. November, pp. 385-391 2018 Journal article
    PARANQUE, B., B.COVA, "Exploitation and Emancipation" in The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing., Tadajewski,M., Higgins, M., Denegri-Knott,J. and Varman, R. Eds, Routledge, chap. 27, pp. 439-452, 2018 2018 Book chapter
    COVA, B., G.FUSCHILLO, S.PACE, Le Marche Siamo Noi, FrancoAngeli Editore, Milano, Italy, 2017 2017 Book
    SCOTT, R., J.CAYLA, B.COVA, "Selling Pain to the Saturated Self", Journal of Consumer Research, 2017, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 22-43 2017 Journal article
    TESTA, P., B.COVA, L.CANTONE, "The process of de-iconisation of an iconic brand: a genealogical approach", Journal of Marketing Management, 2017, vol. 33, no. 17-18, pp. 1490-1521 2017 Journal article
    BARES, F., B. COVA, S. HOMBOURGER-BARÈS, "Coaching entrepreneurial : Comment intégrer la passion ?", Entreprendre et Innover, 2017, no. 35, pp. 7-18 2017 Journal article
    COVA, B., "Pourquoi les cadres paient-ils pour souffrir le dimanche ?", Le libellio D'Aegis, 2017, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 7-17 2017 Journal article
    COVA, B., La vie sociale des marques, Editions EMS, Caen, France, 2017 2017 Book
    COVA, B., E.REMY, "Au coeur du phénomène collaboratif : l’entraide" in La Consommation Collaborative., Decrop, A. Eds, De Boeck-Vuibert, 2017 2017 Book chapter
    COVA, B., V.COVA, H.EL JURDI, "Ethnographies of a Mediterranean Vestaval: The Passeggiata" in Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory., Sherry, J. F. Jr. & Fischer, E. Eds, Routledge, pp. 130-151, 2017 2017 Book chapter
    FERREIRA, F. N. H., B.COVA, R.SPENCER, J. F.PROENÇA, "A phase model for solution relationship development: a case study in the aerospace industry", Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 2017, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 625-639 2017 Journal article
    FERREIRA, F. N. H., B.COVA, R.SPENCER, J. F.PROENÇA, "A dynamics-based approach to solutions typology: A case from the aerospace industry", Industrial Marketing Management, 2016, vol. 58, pp. 114-122 2016 Journal article
    COVA, B., S.D'ANTONE, "Brand Iconicity vs. Anti-Consumption Well-Being Concerns: The Nutella Palm Oil Conflict", Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2016, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 166-192 2016 Journal article
    CARU, A., B.COVA, S.PACE, "Innovating’ as an interaction of practices: the case of customers’ use of a new website" in Innovating in practices: perspectives and experiences., Tiziana Russo Spena, Cristina Mele & Maaria Nuutinen Eds, Springer International Publishing, pp. 139-157, 2016 2016 Book chapter
    CARU, A., L.COLM, B.COVA, "Innovating Services Through Experiences: An Investigation of Servicescape’s Pivotal Role," in Service Innovation. Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems., Toivonen, M Eds, Springer Japan, pp. 149-170, 2016 2016 Book chapter
    COVA, B., "Brand Communities" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology., Ritzer, G. Eds, Blackwell Publishing, 2016 2016 Book chapter
    COVA, B., B.PARANQUE, "Value slippage in brand transformation: a conceptualization", Journal of Product and Brand Management, 2016, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 3-10 2016 Journal article
    COVA, B., S. GUERCINI, "Passion et entrepreneuriat : Vers un entrepreneur tribal ?", Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2016, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 7-34 2016 Journal article
    PARANQUE, B., B.COVA, "Brand Value Creation versus Destruction: The Relationship between Consumers, Marketers, and Financiers" in Finance Reconsidered: New Perspectives for a Responsible and Sustainable Finance., Bernard Paranque, Roland Pérez Eds, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 245-261, 2016 2016 Book chapter
    Teaching domains

    Marketing

    Methodology

    Research domains

    Consumer Behavior

    • Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)

    Brands & Branding

    BtoB Marketing

    Entrepreneurship

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    Start-up tribu : créer son business à partir d'une communauté None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    Apple, Lego, Playmobil… comment des marques sauvent parfois des vies Gregorio FUSCHILLO Published in The Conversation
    Marketing & new consumption
    Comment générer une communauté pour monter un business None Xerfi video
    Marketing
    Le succès du Rafale ou l’effet Ketchup None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Comment intégrer de la valeur de lien en temps de pandémie None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Solidarité Covid-19 : La tradition napolitaine, le ‘caffè sospeso’, à l’origine de la généralisation d’une nouvelle forme de solidarité citoyenne : l’entraide anonyme Gregorio FUSCHILLO Expert’s view
    Marketing & new consumption
    Comment conquérir de nouveaux clients sans perdre les anciens None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Pourquoi les cadres payent pour souffrir le dimanche ? None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    La vie sociale des marques None Video publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Vendre et consommer au bas de la pyramide : une leçon africaine None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Jeux interdits ? Comment les entreprises captent la richesse non-marchande None Published in The Conversation
    Marketing & new consumption
    Comment les marques tirent parti de l’entraide entre consommateurs None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Notre rapport aux marques, de l’échappée à l’incompétence au quotidien None Published in The Conversation
    Marketing & new consumption
    Des contrefaçons aux surfaçons : danger ou opportunité pour les marques ? None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Pourquoi les cadres paient pour souffrir le dimanche None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Créer une communauté de marque None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    Le marketing collaboratif None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    Le Marketing Tribal : miser sur les communautés et leurs liens None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    Tribal Marketing : the tribalisation of society and its impact on the conduct of marketing None Video publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Party time : Recreation rituals in the world of BtoB None Video publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    "Je flunche puis on se skype ": Comment les verbes de marques investissent notre langage ? None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Et si vous recrutiez des « volontaires de marque » None HBR publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Consommer pour vivre : l'expérience de la consommation None Xerfi video
    Marketing & new consumption
    Le Marketing Tribal : un nouveau mode de consommation None Video publication
    Marketing & new consumption
    Party time : Rituels festifs dans le monde du BtoB Lionel MALTESE Video publication
    Marketing & new consumption