Why Do Educational People Commit Corruption in Communicating Their Personal Brands?
B. S. Wijaya, Muhammad Taufiq Amir, & Jurica Lucyanda
Abstract
Amid the increasingly fierce competition, personal branding has become necessary for modern workers today, including professionals in education. This article explores why people in the educational milieu, especially higher education, commit corruption in communicating their brands. We conducted interviews and one-on-one discussions with ten people who work as instructors, researchers, and structural officials in educational institutions. We identified three main reasons motivating them to commit corruption in personal brand communication: financial reasons, managerial reasons, and communicative reasons. Financial reasons refer to economic goals in improving self and family well-being and meeting daily and long-term needs. On the other side, managerial motives refer to organizational performance goals that impact personal career advancement. Meanwhile, communicative intentions apply to imaging related to the need for identity and social recognition. This research can reference decision-makers to assess performance and determine what rewards or punishments are suitable for individuals in their organizations.
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Branderpreneurship: Kewirausahaan Berbasis Pengembangan Merek
B. S. Wijaya
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36782/jemi.v2i4.1943
Abstract—This article discusses a strategic concept for entrepreneurs so that their businesses can grow faster by synergizing the entrepreneurial spirit and the branding mindset. Indeed, many entrepreneurs still consider brand development or branding as a ‘luxurious strategy’ that is wasting money. However, by using the concepts and strategies that are smarter and focused, branding activities can be executed more effectively and efficiently to produce the optimum effect on business performance. Branderpreneurship concept refers to the stages as set out in the ‘circle of values development’: starting from Identifying values, Creating values, Delivering values, Communicating values, Maintaining values, Evaluating values to Updating values. Branderpreneurship concept is beneficial for novice entrepreneurs or SMEs that are developing their business so that the business brand more quickly recognized by the public, grows strategically, which would have an impact on increasing business profits. Branderpreneurship Framing Analysis (BFA)method can be used to asses the strategic performance of an entrepreneurial brand.
Keywords— branderpreneurship, values development, brand, hierarchy of branding, entrepreneurship, enterpreneur.
Abstrak—Artikel ini membahas sebuah konsep strategis bagi wirausahawan agar bisnis mereka dapat tumbuh lebih cepat, dengan menyinergikan semangat kewirausahaan dan pola pikir pemerekan atau branding. Masih banyak pengusaha menganggap pemerekan sebagai ‘strategi mewah’ yang membuang-buang uang. Padahal, dengan konsep dan strategi yang cerdas dan fokus, maka kegiatan pemerekan dapat dieksekusi lebih efektif dan efisien sehingga menghasilkan efek optimal bagi kinerja bisnis. Konsep Branderpreneurship mengacu pada tahapan yang ada dalam ‘the circle of values development‘: mulai dari Identifying values, Creating values, Delivering values, Communicating values, Maintaining values, Evaluating values hingga Updating values. Konsep Branderpreneurship sangat berguna bagi wirausaha atau UKM yang sedang mengembangkan bisnis mereka sehingga merek bisnis dapat tumbuh strategis, yang pada akhirnya berdampak pada peningkatan laba bisnis. Metode Branderpreneurship Framing Analysis (BFA) dapat digunakan untuk mengukur performa strategis sebuah merek wirausaha.
Kata kunci— branderpreneurship, pengembangan nilai, merek, hirarki pemerekan, kewirausahaan, wirausahawan.
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Wijaya, B. S. (2019). “Branderpreneurship: Kewirausahaan Berbasis Pengembangan Merek”. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Industry, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp.205-212. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36782/jemi.v2i4.1943
Relasi Konsumen dan Merek dalam Dimensi Simbolik, Sosial dan Politik
Oleh: B. S. Wijaya
Abstrak: Oleh Baudrillard (1996), ‘merek’ (‘brand‘) disebut memberi kontribusi bagi masa depan bahasa konsumsi. Kita pun dapat melihat dewasa ini merek menjadi wacana yang mengintrusi hampir segenap sisi kehidupan masyarakat pascamoderen, dan dibahasakan dalam konteks konsumsi secara luas. Hal ini berimplikasi pada konstruksi relasi konsumen dan merek yang bergerak dalam berbagai dimensi pemaknaan yang tidak tunggal. Makalah ini mengkaji secara konseptual bagaimana konstelasi makna relasi konsumen dan merek dalam dimensi simbolik, sosial dan politis. Continue reading
Brand Activation dan Komunikasi Berasa*
Oleh: B. S. Wijaya**
Mengapa sebuah brand perlu diaktivasi? Apanya yang diaktivasi? Apa sebenarnya makna dari aktivasi itu? Kita dapat menelusurinya melalui perubahan paradigma dari rezim komunikasi linier ke komunikasi sebagai budaya (communication as culture) yang menekankan pada kebermaknaan dan keberagaman resepsi pesan. Selama bertahun-tahun, kita ‘dijajah’ oleh asumsi teori jarum suntik yang menganggap pesan yang kita sampaikan melalui media massa akan diterima sama oleh khalayak konsumen. Artinya, media memiliki pengaruh besar dalam membentuk persepsi massa. Maka iklan pun menjadi senjata andalan, karena dianggap paling efektif dalam menyuntikkan pesan-pesan produk ke syaraf preferensi konsumen.
The ‘Realness’ Discourse of a Political Leader: A Komunikasi Berasa Perspective
by B. S. Wijaya
DOI: 10.18196/jgp.2016.0031/310-340
Abstract: This article examines the communication style of the former Governor of Jakarta and presidential candidate during the 2014 Indonesian election, Joko Widodo (known as Jokowi), both as a discourse and communication model that affects trustworthiness and meaningfulness of the audiences toward the conveyed messages.This communication model is called Komunikasi Berasa [‘sensed-communication’ or ‘experientially-meaningful communication’], which synergises the delivery and verification of a message through audiences’ experience towards the meaning of the Continue reading
