Transforming brand core values into perceived quality: A Volvo case study
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

Core values are an important part of Volvo Car Group’s and Volvo Trucks’ strategic development plans. These two companies share the same core values, quality, safety, and environmental care, but they approach these values in different ways. This study seeks to understand how industry professionals and customers perceive these core values and the attributes that are associated with them, using semi-structured interviews with industry professionals from both companies and quantitative survey methods with customers. The purposes of this study are to investigate how designers convey core values to customers through product attributes and how customers perceive those core values through the same attributes. Such an understanding reveals the commonalities and discrepancies between the perspectives of producers and customers, and can contribute to more effective design processes that communicate company values in the early product development phases.

Communication

Product development

Core values

Automotive design

Perceived quality

Författare

Kostas Stylidis

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling

Steven Hoffenson

Stevens Institute of Technology

Monica Rossi

Politecnico di Milano

Casper Wickman

Volvo Cars

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling

Mikael Söderman

Volvo Cars

Rikard Söderberg

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap

International Journal of Product Development

1477-9056 (ISSN) 1741-8178 (eISSN)

Vol. 24 1 43-67

Ämneskategorier

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

DOI

10.1504/IJPD.2020.106448

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Senast uppdaterat

2020-04-30