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The Handbook is organized in six major sections: The service setting, demand management, service excellence and profitability, service recovery, service relationships, and firm-wide service issues. A unique structural feature of the Handbook is the inclusion of both in-depth chapters as well as shorter, more focused `mini' chapters. This variation enables the book to provide broader coverage through the inclusion of more topics.
In Consumer Behavior, the authors deliver a cutting-edge examination of consumer behavior, combining a thorough introduction to the subject with an overview of common and important consumer behaviors, contemporary social issues impacting consumer behavior including social media, a global mindset of consumer behaviors, and the ethical aspects of consumer behavior. The authors draw on extensive consumer behavior research and teaching experience to offer a streamlined pedagogical framework designed to provide a contemporary and fresh voice in the discipline. Consumer Behavior is ideal for undergraduates, graduate, MBAs, and executives seeking new insights to better understand consumers. In this edition, you'll find: An easy-to-follow introduction to and overview of consumer behavior The consumer buying process A throughgoing focus on global, ethical, and social media issues relevant to consumer behavior Supplementary materials for instructors, including PowerPoint slides and a Test Bank
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New Paperback Edition Networks and the Enterprise: Breakthrough Thinking and Actionable Strategies “This book presents an amazing collection of insights on underlying forces and ways to thrive in our post-Coaseian age—an age in which the centralized firm is changing into an agile and resilient network of participants. A must read for a world where unpredictability reigns supreme.” —John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chair of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, and Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California “I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this research...I have already begun to put the ideas into practice in designing ne...
The Foreword by renowned marketing guru Philip Kotler sets the stage for a comprehensive review of the latest strategies for building, leveraging, and rejuvenating brands. Destined to become a marketing classic, Kellogg on Branding includes chapters written by respected Kellogg marketing professors and managers of successful companies. It includes: The latest thinking on key branding concepts, including brand positioning and design Strategies for launching new brands, leveraging existing brands, and managing a brand portfolio Techniques for building a brand-centered organization Insights from senior managers who have fought branding battles and won This is the first book on branding from the faculty of the Kellogg School, the respected resource for dynamic marketing information for today's ever-changing and challenging environment. Kellogg is the brand that executives and marketing managers trust for definitive information on proven approaches for solving marketing dilemmas and seizing marketing opportunities.
Written by a group of top American and international scholars, Networks in Marketing provides an overview of what networks are and how they are used in marketing management practices. This timely volume examines a variety of topics, including customer-to-customer and business-to-business networks, relationships as investment opportunities, and strategic alliances. It also looks at market dynamics, specifically brand switching and the structure of consumer networks. In addition to these major topics, a stellar cast of marketing scholars--Lou Stern, Robert Spekman, Joseph Galaskiewicz, and others--contributes mini chapters that reflect on their own research and expertise. The final chapter explores several advanced methodological issues and discusses directions for future research. Researchers and professionals in marketing, consumer behavior, relationship marketing, and methodologists will find the information provided in this volume valuable. This book may also be of interest to organizational networkers and traditional social network scholars.
How to capture customers by learning to think the way they do The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions. Drawing upon his years of experience as a Fortune 500 consultant, he offers sales and marketing professionals a powerful framework for understanding the inner workings of a business; knowing what motivates its executives and influences their buying decisions; identifying a company's organizational structure and decision-making psychology; and using that information to develop a winning strategy for influencing how and why the customer buys. In addition, you receive: Solid marketing insights delivered in a fun, breezy style by a top corporate consultant and seminar leader Expert tips on how to maximize the value and profitability of relationships with corporate clients and customers
In studies of inter-organizational relations (lOR's), there is a tendency to look at dyads of flrms, and to consider networks as aggregates of such dyads. But there are several roles for a third party; a go-between. This chapter looks at a go-between not in the sense of a middleman who intermediates in existing production or trade, such as an agent, wholesaler, retailer, and not in the sense of an entrepreneur who intermediates in the realization of new potential in connecting supply and demand. It looks at a go between in the sense of a relationship counsellor for the development and maintenance of social capital; providing support in setting up, adapting and ending cooperative relations be...
Dawn Iacobucci's MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 1E provides the material that first-year MBA students need to gain a mastery of core concepts in marketing management. You will be able to quickly begin applying concepts to cases, group work, and/or simulations that are assigned in your course. MARKETING MANAGEMENT reflects the dynamic environment facing today's marketers, helping them understand how an increasingly competitive global marketplace and the changes in technology affect the marketing decisions that managers must make. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Explores even the fundamental assumptions underlying mediation analysis