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Marketing
A Critical Textbook



December 2010 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
With a focus on introducing the key concepts of critical and alternative marketing, this text brings the real-world challenges and considerations of marketing to students. Both productive and positive, the approach taken offers other ways of looking at, and solving, marketing 'problems'.

Using examples and case studies to illustrate and discuss major alternative and critical perspectives on the subject, it enables students to constructively question the conventional assumptions, concepts and models with which they are already familiar.

- Each chapter in this book presents the alternative(s) approaches to the topic step by step

- Real world case studies and examples

- Fully supported with chapter pedagogy

- Features a Companion Website, including Instructor's Manual


 
Introducing the History of Marketing Theory and Practice
 
Marketing 'Science' and the Paradigm Debates
 
What's the Story? Analyzing Marketing Discourse
 
Interrogating the Ideological Function of Marketing
 
The Management of Marketing
 
Taking a Different Look at Business-to-Business Marketing
 
Consumer Surveillance and Marketing Research
 
Consumer Rights and Resistance
 
Consumer Society and the Production of Identity
 
Marketing and the Sign
Globalization and Ethics

 

Excellent background reading for advanced level students in marketing to gain thorough grounding in marketing theory

Adam Raman
School of Marketing, Kingston University
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An excellent and accessible overview of the key topics in marketing management and market research, from a critical perspective. Clear, well-written and engaging.

Dr Alon Lischinsky
History Department, Oxford Brookes University
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I'm recommending this as supplemental reading for the new second year in marketing course to begin October 2014

Dr Andrew Whalley
School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Here this has been linked to the incorrect course, this will be used as recommended reading in my 'Current Issues' module.

There are very few textbooks which take a critical approach to marketing, most simply present standard threories, albeit in slightly different ways. Such a book was long overdue - it complements general text books very well, and reduces the effort of collating more critical, analytical material from journals.

Dr Antje Cockrill
School of Business & Economics, Swansea University
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A great and necessary book, useful for students without lacking in theoretical depth. This will be for quite a while a standard book for every marketing discussion that dares to go beyond Kotler.

Dr Matthias Bode
Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark
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Excellent textbook, though a bit too abstract at times for MBA-level students.

Dr Miriam Garvi
College of Management, National Taiwan University
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Well-structured, readable, and comprehensive treatment; useful learning activities; glossary an important addition.

Dr Niklas Woermann
Department of Marketing & Management, University of Southern Denmark
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A very current marketing textbook with relevant case studies and useful insights.

Dr Rosemary Burnley
Bedfordshire Business School, Bedfordshire University
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A very interesting and needed assessement of marketing

Miss Susanna Molander
Marketing, Stockholm University School of Business
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A very insightful text that provides an excellent critical framework for evaluating marketing practice. High level for undergraduate, though for more advanced students, it is certainly a text that will 'make them think'.

Mr David Cockayne
Dept of Transport and Logistics, Huddersfield University
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Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter One