Thomas Fotiadis – författare

The Sage Handbook of Industrial Marketing addresses the dynamic and complex landscape of industrial marketing, emphasizing the unique challenges and opportunities within business-to-business transactions. In an era marked by technological advancements and globalization, this handbook offers a comprehensive resource that defines the industrial marketing field, captures its historical foundations, and charts a course for its future. It aims to be a benchmark, offering both retrospective and prospective international perspectives to frame, assess, and synthesize the current state of industrial marketing.

Emphasizing the industrial context, the handbook defines the boundaries of industrial marketing, differentiating it from consumer-focused approaches. It explores the distinctive characteristics of business-to-business products and services within industrial markets, acknowledging the specialized nature of these transactions.

The edited collection aims for a holistic view of industrial marketing, encompassing organizational aspects, customer behavior, market research, customer value proposition, market segmentation, product innovation, product management, marketing communications, channels of distribution, and emerging industrial trends. This breadth ensures that readers gain a deep understanding of the multifaceted nature of industrial marketing.

Recognizing the global nature of industrial markets, the handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world. This inclusivity ensures diverse perspectives, addressing global variations and challenges inherent in industrial marketing practices.

The handbook is thematically organized into sections, each dedicated to a crucial aspect of industrial marketing. This structure allows for an in-depth exploration of specific topics, ensuring a nuanced examination of both traditional and contemporary industrial marketing issues. A dedicated section explores emerging industrial trends, ensuring the collection remains relevant in the face of evolving technologies and market dynamics specific to the industrial context.

The Sage Handbook of Industrial Marketing is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and students seeking to navigate the complexities of industrial marketing and leverage opportunities within business-to-business transactions.

Part 1: Field of Business-to-Business MarketingPart 2: Business-to-Business OrganizationsPart 3: Business-to-Business Customer BehaviorPart 4: Business-to-Business Market ResearchPart 5: Business Customer Value PropositionPart 6: Market Segmentation and PositioningPart 7: Product InnovationPart 8: Product ManagementPart 9: Marketing CommunicationsPart 10: Channels of DistributionPart 11: New Trends

Organizations are now recognizing the importance of demand-supply integration to their growth and success. While marketing and supply chain management are an essential part of any business qualification, it is becoming increasingly essential to understand the need for integration between synergize marketing and SCM.

Marketing and Supply Chain Management is among the first to synergize these two disciplines. Its holistic approach provides students with a macro-level understanding of these functions and their symbiotic relationship to one another, and demonstrates how both can be managed synergistically to the benefit of the organization.

This bridge-building textbook is ideal for students of marketing, logistics, supply chain management, or procurement who want to understand the machinations of business at a macro level.

In order for High Technology (HT) companies to tackle contemporary demanding market challenges, they frequently deploy time-reduction strategies with respect to product launch. Marketing of technology related products – and especially cutting edge ones – involves a complex and multidimensional bundle of specific and unique characteristics, such as the complexity of products, the intensity of the competition, confusion and/ or fear of adoption among consumers, fast pacing changes in the external environment. The very nature of the interrelations that evolve as part of the dynamic process of strategy formulation contributes further to the formulation of a very challenging environment which is described as tumultuous, volatile and turbulent. These specific features, qualities and characteristics constitute the core of the innate need for an integrated approach that requires and depends on the cooperation and coordination of specific functional competencies. This book employs a systemic approach that accommodates the integration of specialized departmental capabilities as a fundamental prerequisite and a cornerstone for the successful navigation of high-tech organizations in their extremely competitive environments.

It provides a solid and extant context of compact and consistent cognitive background that is specific to the HT strategic marketing field, and a strategic tool that utilizes, relies and is built on the turbulent environment of HT rather than just overlooking, avoiding or ignoring it, and that assumes a proactive point of view, capitalizing on characteristics specific to this field, through the provision of a strategic managerial and marketing model that is overlaid onto a reliably assessed foundation of dynamic qualities, with a long-term orientation and scope, albeit one that would be easy to apply and which will generate immediate results.

In order for High Technology (HT) companies to tackle contemporary demanding market challenges, they frequently deploy time-reduction strategies with respect to product launch. Marketing of technology related products – and especially cutting edge ones – involves a complex and multidimensional bundle of specific and unique characteristics, such as the complexity of products, the intensity of the competition, confusion and/ or fear of adoption among consumers, fast pacing changes in the external environment. The very nature of the interrelations that evolve as part of the dynamic process of strategy formulation contributes further to the formulation of a very challenging environment which is described as tumultuous, volatile and turbulent. These specific features, qualities and characteristics constitute the core of the innate need for an integrated approach that requires and depends on the cooperation and coordination of specific functional competencies. This book employs a systemic approach that accommodates the integration of specialized departmental capabilities as a fundamental prerequisite and a cornerstone for the successful navigation of high-tech organizations in their extremely competitive environments.

It provides a solid and extant context of compact and consistent cognitive background that is specific to the HT strategic marketing field, and a strategic tool that utilizes, relies and is built on the turbulent environment of HT rather than just overlooking, avoiding or ignoring it, and that assumes a proactive point of view, capitalizing on characteristics specific to this field, through the provision of a strategic managerial and marketing model that is overlaid onto a reliably assessed foundation of dynamic qualities, with a long-term orientation and scope, albeit one that would be easy to apply and which will generate immediate results.

Strategic International Marketing: Theory & Practice provides a comprehensive, strategy-driven approach to understanding how firms compete and grow in international markets. Designed for today’s globally minded students, the book integrates international marketing theory with strategic analysis, showing how organisations make effective decisions across diverse economic, cultural and institutional contexts.

The text covers core international marketing topics alongside key strategic issues such as digital transformation, sustainability, innovation, ethics and new product development. Throughout, students are guided through practical diagnostic tools that support market assessment, strategic decision-making and performance evaluation. End-of-chapter diagnostics and applied frameworks help reinforce learning and support coursework, exams and group projects.

Written in a clear, accessible style, the book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses in international marketing and strategic marketing. Its structured approach makes complex concepts manageable while maintaining analytical depth.

A selection of instructor resources, including test banks, PowerPoint slides and an instructor manual, further supports teaching and learning.

Strategic International Marketing: Theory & Practice provides a comprehensive, strategy-driven approach to understanding how firms compete and grow in international markets. Designed for today’s globally minded students, the book integrates international marketing theory with strategic analysis, showing how organisations make effective decisions across diverse economic, cultural and institutional contexts.

The text covers core international marketing topics alongside key strategic issues such as digital transformation, sustainability, innovation, ethics and new product development. Throughout, students are guided through practical diagnostic tools that support market assessment, strategic decision-making and performance evaluation. End-of-chapter diagnostics and applied frameworks help reinforce learning and support coursework, exams and group projects.

Written in a clear, accessible style, the book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses in international marketing and strategic marketing. Its structured approach makes complex concepts manageable while maintaining analytical depth.

A selection of instructor resources, including test banks, PowerPoint slides and an instructor manual, further supports teaching and learning.

An introductory textbook on industrial marketing and supply chain management that discusses industrial products and pricing, as well as key topics such as co-creation of value, big data, innovation, green practices and CSR.

The textbook includes:

This textbook is suitable for students studying industrial marketing and other related courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Thomas Fotiadis is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Laboratory in the Department of Production and Management Engineering, School of Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Adam Lindgreen is Professor and Head of Department of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa.

George J. Siomkos is Professor of Marketing at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Director of the MSc Program in Services Management and previously Dean of the School of Business, AUEB, Greece.

Christina Öberg is Professor at CTF Service Research Center, Karlstad University and associated with the Ratio Institute, Sweden. 

Dimitris Folinas is Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at International Hellenic University, Greece.

An introductory textbook on industrial marketing and supply chain management that discusses industrial products and pricing, as well as key topics such as co-creation of value, big data, innovation, green practices and CSR.

The textbook includes:

This textbook is suitable for students studying industrial marketing and other related courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Thomas Fotiadis is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Laboratory in the Department of Production and Management Engineering, School of Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Adam Lindgreen is Professor and Head of Department of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa.

George J. Siomkos is Professor of Marketing at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Director of the MSc Program in Services Management and previously Dean of the School of Business, AUEB, Greece.

Christina Öberg is Professor at CTF Service Research Center, Karlstad University and associated with the Ratio Institute, Sweden. 

Dimitris Folinas is Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at International Hellenic University, Greece.