Rethinking Marketing

This groundbreaking book recognises and addresses the urgent need to develop a new understanding of marketing. Based on the involvement of twenty thought leaders from Europe and the US, this book gives us both a state of the art picture of marketing today and a look ahead to the marketing challenges of tomorrow. Since the publication of Kotler's Marketing Management in 1967, marketing has witnessed a dramatic increase in academic involvement. Today there is an extensive range of publications available covering a variety of topics - from cognitive studies of consumer behaviour to organising international distribution - but the 4 Ps, based on the marketing mix model, remains as the dominant theoretical base. Rethinking Marketing demonstrates a misfit between the existing theoretical toolbox and important development trends in the marketplace. Three basic issues are addressed: * How should we look at the market and its different forms, given the existence of dynamics? * How should we look upon the exchange between market players given the existence of relationships and other close cooperative efforts? * What kind of scientific approaches can we use when studying markets and market players? Following a comprehensive discussion of these issues the book concludes by reexamining existing theories in light of these new ideas, challenging existing ways of thinking and looking towards a new future for marketing. Contributors include: James C. Anderson, Luis Araujo, Keith Blois, Anna Dubois, Geoff Easton, David Ford, Lars-Erik Gadde, Geir Gripsrud, Inge Jan Henjesand, Roy Howell, Michael Johnson, Gøran Persson, Frans Prenkert, Thomas Ritter, Fred Selnes, Ivan Snehota, Sigurd Villads Troye