Essentials Of Industrial Marketing

A reader-friendly, manager?s goal-oriented guide to marketing in the 21st century In today?s customer-oriented world, marketing principles are more important than ever for managers to understand and implement in their business strategy. The recent rise of outsourcing, strategic alliances, globalization, and e-commerce, as well as the failures of dot-com fool?s gold and fuzzy accounting, means the application of these principles, as always, is changing. This completely revised and updated edition repositions marketing as the process of defining, developing, and delivering customer value. Offering specific guidelines on creating a customer-focused, market-driven company, Market-Driven Management also includes new chapters on branding, marketing strategy implementation, sales force deployment, and value delivery.

The overall success of an organization is dependent on how marketing is able to inform strategy and maintain an operational focus on market needs. With an array of examples and case studies from around the world, Lancaster and Massingham offer an alternative to the traditional American focused teaching materials currently available. Topics covered include: consumer and organizational buyer behaviour product and innovation strategies direct marketing e-marketing Designed and written for undergraduate, MBA and masters students in marketing management classes, The Essentials of Marketing Management builds on successful earlier editions to provide a solid foundation to understanding this core topic. An extensive companion website, featuring a vast and rich array of supporting materials, including extended cases and multiple choice questions is available at: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415553476/

Get a thorough review of vital research issues! Fundamentals of Business Marketing Research examines recent industrial/business research, evaluates its current effectiveness, and offers suggestions for future use. This unique book includes and is based on “Business Marketing: A Twenty Year Review,” a thorough study of industrial/business research from 1978-1997 with critical commentary from a distinguished panel of business academics and the response of the study's authors. The combination of critiques, insights, and viewpoints will challenge you to think beyond the traditional role of B2B marketing into a future that's anything but business as usual. Through an unusual format that gives you access to critical academic analysis, Fundamentals of Business Marketing Research presents a comprehensive review of vital research areas, including marketing to businesses/institutions/governments; buyer-seller relationships; computer use for business marketing; industrial segmentation; channel management and development; physical distribution; advertising; and public relations. The book’s give-and-take is equally focused on areas that have traditionally received a larger share of the research effort (organizational buyer behavior, business marketing strategy and planning, industrial selling and sales management) and those that have taken a back seat in terms of research attention (computers and ethical business marketing). The original study, its criticisms, and the authors’ subsequent assessment spotlight major themes, individual contributions, and future trends in major topic areas, including: business marketing strategy organizational buying behavior and purchasing management business marketing research methodology products/services pricing management issues distribution/logistics and supply chain management promotion Fundamentals of Business Marketing Research is equally effective as a practical guide for professionals and researchers, and as an academic text for doctoral studies.