Marketing management

Consolidate your knowledge of marketing management with this bestselling text. Marketing Management, 4th edition, is considered by many as the authoritative text on the subject. The textbook covers a wide range of concepts and issues, accurately reflecting the fast-moving pace of modern marketing....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kotler, Philip, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harlow, England : Pearson [2019]
Edición:Fourth European edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623540806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the authors
  • Brief contents
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Publisher's acknowledgements
  • PART 1 Understanding Marketing Management
  • Chapter 1 Defining marketing for the new realities
  • The value of marketing
  • The scope of marketing
  • Marketing's role in creating demand
  • European marketing realities
  • Technology
  • Globalisation
  • Social responsibility
  • A dramatically changed marketplace
  • New consumer capabilities
  • New company capabilities
  • Marketing philosophy: production, selling, marketing and holistic marketing philosophies
  • The production philosophy
  • The selling philosophy
  • The marketing philosophy
  • The holistic marketing philosophy
  • Overview of marketing management
  • Case study of marketing management
  • Chapter 2 Understanding marketing management within a global context
  • What is management?
  • The process of management
  • Why is management difficult?
  • What is marketing management?
  • Valuing marketing within organisations
  • Managing across the entire organisation
  • Managing outsourced activities
  • Managing networks and relationships
  • Understanding global marketing management
  • Deciding whether to go abroad
  • Deciding how to enter the market
  • Deciding which markets to enter
  • Deciding on standardised or adapted marketing
  • Managing in developing and low-income markets
  • Chapter 3 Developing marketing strategies and plans
  • Marketing and customer-perceived value
  • Business environment paradigm change
  • The value delivery process
  • The value chain
  • Core competencies
  • A holistic marketing orientation and customer-perceived value
  • The central role of corporate strategic planning
  • Corporate and divisional strategic planning
  • Defining the corporate mission
  • Organisation and organisational culture.
  • Defining the business
  • Assigning resources to each SBU
  • Building the corporate business portfolio - assessing growth opportunities
  • Marketing innovation
  • Business unit strategic planning
  • The business mission
  • SWOT analysis
  • Critique of conventional SWOT analysis
  • Goal formulation
  • Strategic formulation
  • Programme formulation and implementation
  • Feedback and control
  • Change today, not tomorrow
  • Questions
  • Contents of the marketing plan
  • Sample marketing plan: €uromart
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 Managing digital technology in marketing
  • Understanding digital technologies within marketing management
  • The range of technologies in marketing
  • Information and interaction perspectives
  • Managing digital technologies
  • Evaluation and selection of digital technologies
  • Supporting the adoption and implementation of digital technologies
  • Uniting marketing and IT functions
  • Future technologies: opportunities and challenges
  • Part 1 Case study: Virgin Atlantic
  • PART 2 Capturing Marketing Insights
  • Chapter 5 The changing marketing environment and information management
  • The company environment
  • The marketing environment
  • Analysing the macroenvironment
  • The sociocultural and demographic environment
  • The economic environment
  • The social-cultural environment
  • The ecological and physical environment
  • The technological environment
  • The political-legal environment
  • Managing the marketing information system
  • Components of a modern marketing information system
  • Internal records
  • The marketing intelligence system
  • Databases, data warehousing and data mining
  • Chapter 6 Managing market research and forecasting
  • The marketing research system
  • The marketing research process
  • Step 1: define the problem, the decision alternatives and the research objectives
  • Step 2: develop the research plan.
  • Step 3: collect the information
  • Step 4: analyse the information
  • Step 5: present the findings
  • Step 6: make the decision
  • Overcoming barriers to the use of marketing research
  • Forecasting and demand measurement
  • The measures of market demand
  • Estimating current demand
  • Estimating future demand
  • Chapter 7 Analysing consumer markets
  • The study of consumer behaviour
  • Culture
  • Social groups
  • The individual consumer
  • The interaction between dimensions
  • Key psychological processes
  • Motivation: Freud, Maslow, Herzberg
  • Perception
  • Learning
  • Memory
  • Perspectives on consumer behaviour
  • The behaviourist perspective
  • The information-processing perspective
  • The emotional perspective
  • The cultural perspective
  • A multi-perspective approach
  • The buying decision process: the five-stage model
  • Problem recognition
  • Information search
  • Evaluation of alternatives
  • Purchase decision
  • Post-purchase behaviour
  • Other theories of consumer decision making
  • Level of consumer involvement
  • Behavioural decision theory and behavioural economics
  • Decision heuristics
  • Framing
  • Mental accounting
  • Profiling consumer product buying and usage behaviour
  • Chapter 8 Analysing business markets
  • What is organisational buying?
  • The business market versus the consumer market
  • Buying situations
  • Systems buying and selling
  • Participants in the business buying process
  • The buying centre
  • Buying centre influences
  • Targeting firms and buying centres
  • The purchasing/procurement process
  • Stages in the buying process
  • Problem recognition
  • General need description and product specification
  • Supplier search
  • Proposal solicitation
  • Supplier selection
  • Order-routine specification
  • Performance review
  • Managing business-to-business relationships.
  • The role of uncertainty in business relationships
  • Transaction cost economics
  • Network theory
  • Vertical coordination
  • Institutional and government markets
  • Chapter 9 Dealing with competition
  • Identifying competitors
  • Analysing competitors
  • Strategies
  • Objectives
  • Strengths and weaknesses
  • Selecting competitors
  • Selecting customers
  • Competitive strategies for market leaders
  • Expanding the total market
  • Protecting market share
  • Expanding market share
  • Other competitive strategies
  • Market-challenger strategies
  • Market-follower strategies
  • Market-nicher strategies
  • Balancing customer and competitor orientations
  • Competitor-centred companies
  • Customer-centred companies
  • Competing in an economic downturn
  • Explore the upside of increasing investment
  • Get closer to customers
  • Review budget allocations
  • Put forth the most compelling value proposition
  • Fine-tune brand and product offerings
  • Part 2 Case study: Cheese odour marketing
  • PART 3 Connecting with Customers
  • Chapter 10 Seeking and developing target marketing differentiation strategies
  • Levels of market segmentation
  • Segment group marketing
  • Niche marketing
  • Local marketing
  • Individual marketing
  • Bases for segmenting consumer markets
  • Geographic segmentation
  • Demographic segmentation
  • Psychographic segmentation
  • Behavioural segmentation
  • Bases for segmenting business markets
  • Market targeting
  • Effective segmentation criteria
  • Evaluating and selecting market segments
  • Additional considerations
  • Creating differentiation and positioning strategies
  • Positioning
  • Establishing category membership
  • Choosing POPs and PODs
  • Creating POPs and PODs
  • Perceptual or positioning mapping
  • What can positioning analysis do for a company's business?
  • Positioning maps
  • Developing a positioning strategy.
  • Repositioning
  • Developing and communicating a differentiation strategy
  • Cost leadership
  • Distinctive superior quality
  • Cost leadership and quality differentiation
  • Differentiation strategies
  • The purpose of positioning
  • Chapter 11 Creating customer value, satisfaction and loyalty
  • Building customer value
  • Customer-perceived value
  • Building customer satisfaction
  • Brand inertia and brand loyalty
  • Total customer satisfaction
  • Market offering quality dimension
  • Maximising customer lifetime value
  • Customer profitability
  • Customer lifetime value - conceptual dream or real-time activity?
  • Cultivating customer relationships
  • Customer relationship management
  • Attracting and retaining customers
  • Building customer loyalty
  • Improving loyalty
  • Developing loyalty programmes
  • The experience economy
  • The value experience
  • Interactive marketing
  • Complexity of markets
  • Emotional turn
  • Chapter 12 Creating and managing brands and brand equity
  • Understanding brand management
  • What is a brand?
  • The roles of brands
  • Strategic brand management decisions
  • Creating and managing brand identities: names, logos, slogans and images
  • Brand narratives and storytelling
  • Managing individual or house brand names
  • Managing brand extensions
  • Managing brand portfolios
  • Brand reinforcing and revitalisation
  • Growing, sustaining and managing brand equity
  • Chapter 13 Digital and global brand management strategies
  • What is a digital brand?
  • Digital branding as a core management requirement
  • Understanding the digital brand experience
  • Understanding the consumer decision journey and digital branding
  • Linking social networking and the consumer decision journey
  • Digital brand communities
  • Online brand communities' member characteristics
  • Managing global brands.
  • Factors leading to increased global branding.