In this revised second edition, Hans Jansson develops and applies an international business strategy framework to contemporary complex global markets. This cutting-edge textbook explores the major challenges associated with doing business in complex and turbulent emerging markets and how MNCs in mature markets execute strategies to meet these challenges.
Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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.
This book discusses the differences between consumer marketing and industrial marketing, as well as the challenges faced when putting each into practice. It identifies important distinctions in terms of product functionality, market research concepts and techniques, market segmentation, pricing, sales force and product launch. Furthermore, it reviews significant variations concerning other issues such as branding, distribution, product development and the organizational structure of the commercial department. Each chapter features both authoritative, novel concepts suited for global application and hands-on protocols. By presenting these concepts and their implementation, this book is the first of its kind in the field to help practitioners avoid using consumer-marketing techniques that could in fact be inappropriate for and detrimental to an industrial company strategy.
This study considers the key strategic issues of the management of customer relationships in international industrial marketing. It is based on extensive original research by the International Marketing and Purchase Group. The book reports on that research, in particular pointing out the differences in approach by different national groups in Europe.
First Published in 1965, The Marketing of Industrial Products is the product of diverse talents and experiences. The first words of Aubrey Wilson's introduction to this book emphasise the importance and relevance of industrial marketing to everyone connected with industry. He goes on to stress the need to set industrial marketing into a wider perspective and, at the same time, to provide for the urgent requirements of students for a basic authoritative book. Each chapter (with one exception) is an original contribution, especially commissioned for the book which has been devised and edited as an integrated work. The editor comments that there can be few if any people who are able to write with equal authority on each function of marketing. He has therefore invited eighteen leaders in their own particular function to contribute to this book. It immediately establishes itself as a standard work. This is a must read for students of marketing and business management.
This is one of the first books to probe deeply into the art and science of branding industrial products. The book comes at a time when more industrial companies need to start using branding in a sophisticated way. It provides the concepts, the theory, and dozens of cases illustrating the successful branding of industrial goods. It offers strategies for a successful development of branding concepts for business markets and explains the benefits and the value a business, product or service provides to industrial customers. As industrial companies are turning to branding this book provides the best practices and hands-on advice for B2B brand management.
Thoroughly updated, this much anticipated new edition provides students with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view of industrial marketing. With a focus on strategic thinking and acting, the authors examine the distinct challenges of the business-to-business marketplace. These include: faster product and service development; shortened product life cycles;, new processes for selling, distribution, and customer service; increase in entrepreneurial firms; and the need to create and sustain long-term customer relationships. Separate chapters are devoted to buying decisions, market research and analysis, and purchasing practices, including treatment of the latest technological developments in just-in-time systems, Web-based procurement, and enterprise resource planning and manufacturing systems. Each chapter includes illustrations of real world marketing issues, key concepts, learning objectives, and discussion questions.
