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Business and Management
France
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
58
Citations
19021
World Ranking
608
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award

Overview

Bernard Cova is affiliated with Kedge Business School in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Social Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Business and International Management, Strategy and Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics of Bernard Cova's work are diverse and include:

  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Business Strategy and Innovation

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Bernard Cova are:

  • The new frontier of consumer experiences: escape through pain, 2020, AMS Review
  • Creating a brand community at the bottom of the pyramid: the case of a Cameroonian music platform, 2021, Journal of Marketing Management
  • Nostalgia and pastiche in the post-postmodern zeitgeist: The 'postcar' from Italy, 2020, Marketing Theory (authored by Luigi Cantone but relevant within the context)
  • Brand magnification: when brands help people reconstruct their lives, 2022, European Journal of Marketing (co-authored by Gregorio Fuschillo)
  • How innovation nurtures well-being in enthusiast communities, 2021, Innovation (co-authored by Simone Guercini)

Bernard Cova frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Marketing Theory
  • Revue française de gestion
  • Consumption Markets & Culture
  • Journal of Customer Behaviour
  • AMS Review

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Franck Barès
  • Julien Cayla
  • Luigi Cantone
  • Pierpaolo Testa
  • Gregorio Fuschillo

Bernard Cova's work demonstrates a sustained focus on the intersection of consumer behavior, brand interaction, and innovation in various socioeconomic contexts. Their contributions address both theoretical and practical aspects of marketing, consumer experiences, and the construction of brand communities, including those at the socioeconomic "bottom of the pyramid."

Best Publications

  • Tribal marketing: The tribalisation of society and its impact on the conduct of marketing

    Bernard Cova;Véronique Cova

  • Community and consumption

    Bernard Cova

  • Revisiting Consumption Experience A More Humble but Complete View of the Concept

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • Brand community of convenience products: new forms of customer empowerment – the case “my Nutella The Community”

    Bernard Cova;Stefano Pace

  • Working Consumers: The Next Step in Marketing Theory?

    Bernard Cova;Daniele Dalli

  • Marketing solutions in accordance with the S-D logic: Co-creating value with customer network actors

    Bernard Cova;Robert Salle

  • Critical perspectives on consumers' role as 'producers': Broadening the debate on value co-creation in marketing processes.

    Bernard Cova;Daniele Dalli;Detlev Zwick

  • Servicescapes: From Modern Non-Places to Postmodern Common Places

    Véronique Aubert-Gamet;Bernard Cova

  • Counter-brand and alter-brand communities: the impact of Web 2.0 on tribal marketing approaches

    Bernard Cova;Tim White

  • Tribal aspects of postmodern consumption research: the case of French in-line roller skaters

    Bernard Cova;Véronique Cova

  • How to facilitate immersion in a consumption experience: appropriation operations and service elements

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • Expériences de consommation et marketing expérientiel

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • Consumption experiences and experience based marketing

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • The postmodern explained to managers: Implications for marketing

    Bernard Cova

  • Selling pain to the saturated self

    Rebecca Scott;Julien Cayla;Julien Cayla;Bernard Cova

  • Project Marketing: Beyond Competitive Bidding

    Bernard Cova;Pervez N. Ghauri;Robert S Salle

  • Approche empirique de l'immersion dans l'expérience de consommation: les opérations d'appropriation

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • Au-delà du marché quand le lien importe plus que le bien

    Bernard Cova

  • Co-creating the collective service experience

    Antonella Carù;Bernard Cova

  • Anti-consumption and consumer resistance: concepts, concerns, conflicts and convergence

    Michael Lee;Dominique Roux;Helene Cherrier;Bernard Cova

Frequent Co-Authors

Pervez N. Ghauri
Pervez N. Ghauri University of Birmingham
Peter S.H. Leeflang
Peter S.H. Leeflang University of Groningen
Eric J. Arnould
Eric J. Arnould Aalto University
Susan Hart
Susan Hart Durham University
David Ford
David Ford University of Bath
Sara Carter
Sara Carter University of Glasgow
Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Adamantios Diamantopoulos University of Vienna

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