SAGE Library in Marketing – serie

This new major work on critical marketing studies adopts a multi-disciplinary and international approach to a subject which has flourished over the past few years. Bringing together papers from a wide range of academic outlets - from both inside and outside of the traditional resources of the marketing discipline - the experienced editorial team of Mark Tadajewski and Robert Cluley have provided an invaluable service to scholars who cannot themselves spend the considerable time it takes to familiarise themselves with the spectrum of scholarship in this domain. The four-volume collection speaks to important emerging trends in the field; specifically with regard to the connections between critical marketing, contemporary theories of emotional, aesthetic and sexual labour, critical social marketing, macromarketing and political economy. Volume One: Critical Marketing and Critiques of MarketingVolume Two: Conceptual and Ethical CritiquesVolume Three: Power, Resistance and Marketplace BoundariesVolume Four: The Structuring of Marketing and Consumer Practice

The importance of philosophy for developing marketing and consumer theory is a key area of interest amongst scholars in the field, and is typically one of the more difficult to understand and apply. This new five-volume collection brings together the seminal articles that students and scholars must assimilate if they are to have a fully rounded understanding of the relevance of philosophy for their research, the varied nature of marketing and consumer research, and to help situate their own contributions to knowledge. The major work is edited by three highly-regarded in the field, who also provide a new contextualising introductory chapter for the collection. Volume One : Historical and Philosophical Overview Volume Two: General Theory and the Realism versus Relativism DebatesVolume Three: Alternative and Multiple ParadigmsVolume Four: Rethinking Concepts  Volume Five: Consumer Studies

The study of advertising is a heated and expansive forum, with research diverging along methodological, semantic and often political lines. This eclectic, extensive and inclusive collection draws together the diverse literature with a view to organising and making sense of the state of play of advertising research, with papers drawn not only from the major international advertising journals, but also widely across the social sciences. Accommodating statistical, behavioural and interpretive perspectives, this three-volume set is organized into three broad categories. Volume One looks at advertising management, including creativity, agencyient relations, campaign planning and effectiveness, media planning and brand communications. Volume Two looks at the cultural influence of advertising, including its ideological character, theoretical influences, and cross-cultural aspects. Volume Three looks at advertising science: the experimental and survey data-gathering methods involved in measuring advertising effectiveness.

The burgeoning field of marketing ethics looks at the moral issues and controversies surrounding marketing theory and practice. This four-volume set focuses on understanding marketing ethics from a management perspective, including articles that: provide ways of thinking about marketing ethics; offer a descriptive account of how marketers make decisions with ethical content; present normative guidance for marketing decision-making; and address specific ethical issues in marketing practice. The editors′ introduction provides an overview of the literature included in the set as well as identifying directions for future research.Volume One: Foundations of Marketing Ethics provides a conceptualization of the field, including some of the earliest contributions on the topic. Volume Two: Positive Marketing Ethics looks at how managers make ethical marketing decisions. Volume Three: Normative Marketing Ethics focuses on normative marketing ethics, which is primarily concerned with the prescriptive considerations of how marketers should make decisions with ethical content. Volume Four: Ethical Issues in Marketing addresses the effects and possible solutions to the major ethical issues arising in the practice of marketing, both at the micro/firm level and at the more macro/systemic level.

This four-volume collection focuses on emerging and cutting-edge work which is shaping the contemporary landscape of consumer research. The volumes bring together key conceptual and research papers related to practices, sharing, politics and spaces. The editors provide a set of comprehensive introductions that scopes out current understanding in the field, and identifies directions for future research in relation to the key themes. This Major Work will be of interest to scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including Marketing and Consumer Research, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Human Geography and Sociology.Volume One: PracticesVolume Two: SharingVolume Three: PoliticsVolume Four: Space

Modern marketing was introduced to China in the 1990s by the Western powers of North America and Europe. However, the approaches taken in China have been greatly influenced by the country′s unique characteristics and its political and economic environment.  Using a range of academic papers from the top journals in the field, the collection′s Editor, Professor Yonggui Wang, explores these connections and variances. Split across four volumes, this collection brilliantly charts the development of marketing in China over the last thirty years, from its birth to the boom of the present day.

This new major work by Sage performs the vital task of collecting together those articles that have examined the history of marketing thought. It includes not only the seminal articles in the field but also those that have been forgotten, neglected and elided from the history of marketing as it has been represented to date.Part I provides an overview of the development of marketing thought using a range of key publications that cover the history of marketing thought until present day. Part II introduces historical figures that have played an important role in developing marketing thought. Part III places the development of marketing thought in its historical context by connecting the changing industrial climate of the late nineteenth century, with the emerging conceptual foundations of marketing thought. This major work, compiled by well-reputed researchers in the field, will ensure that material published in difficult to obtain sources is kept in circulation as well as providing academics and students with a resource that will endow them with an in-depth understanding of the development of their discipline.

This major reference collection, Critical Marketing Studies, directs its attention to highlighting how marketing as academic discipline and practical endeavour have developed and continue to change. As a practical exercise, marketing is concerned with meeting and satisfying customer needs, provided, that is, such an exercise would benefit the organisation and its stakeholders. Much more than that, marketing has become a highly influential activity in social, political and economic arenas. Consequently, it is now an appropriate time to call attention to marketing theory and practice, revealing those background assumptions that pervade the discipline and the effects of marketing as a societal practice. Volume I provides the basis from which more critical marketing studies can be introduced and focuses on the ′broadening of marketing′ from its initial focus on business and market exchange, towards the promotion of social and societal wellbeing. Volume II offers contemporary criticism of marketing and consumption, specifically how marketing and advertising allegedly contribute to the production and stimulation of consumer needs, wants and desires. Volume III takes the concerns and issues outlined in the previous two volumes one step further, highlighting how marketing practice and the ′political economy of social choice′ are shaped at levels beyond the control of individual actors.

Branding is one of the most important, and arguably the most visible, manifestations of ′marketing′. Brands are not just important for identifying products, they also add greatly to the value of companies and they are fiercely protected by the companies they represent and can be the subject of conflict between companies who feel the brand is threatened, infringed or stolen. How do brands happen? How are brands defined? How is Brand Equity measured and accounted for? How has globalisation and the move towards no-name or generic brands affected the strength of existing brands? How are brands managed? How do brands re-brand themselves as corporately responsible and ethical? What are brand alliances and how are they changing the way brands are marketed? Brand Management addresses all these issues and more. Overall, this four volume set provides a comprehensive overview of brand management literature, documenting the persisting theoretical debates, current challenges and the consequent literature development. This set also includes of a variety of perspectives on brand management originating from European and Australasian, as well as American researchers.

The macro side of marketing takes the subject beyond the realm of commerce and into the wider societal context, looking at the marketing process in its entirety. We have long been suspicious of the negative side of the marketing process, exemplified in credit card debt, poor diet, smoking and alcohol abuse. But on the other hand consumer choice, public service information and the encouragement of innovation and creativity are also ways in which marketing affects the social and environmental sphere, in ways that scholars are only beginning to fully investigate. The study of macromarketing, with its focus on how marketing and society inform each other, is increasingly seen as the fastest growing direction in marketing education. This four-volume set takes on these questions from every angle, and to date is the only authoritative collection of the most important writing published in the field. It surveys the history of the discipline, before pushing the boundaries of macromarketing scholarship with work on contemporary topics such as Islamic marketing ethics, pharmaceutical marketing, the Fair Trade movement, and the role of marketing in the developing world. In addition, the broad intellectual interests of the international editorial board incorporate papers of cross-disciplinary influence that might not be on the radar of marketing academics.