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This textbook provides students with comprehensive insights on the classical and contemporary marketing theories and their practical implications. A fourth, revised edition of Marketing Management, the text features new classical and contemporary cases, new interdisciplinary and cross-functional implications of business management theories, contemporary marketing management principles and. futuristic  application of marketing management theories and concepts. The core and complex issues are presented in a simplified manner providing students with a stimulating learning experience that enables critical thinking, understanding and future application.

Each chapter features a chapter summary, key terms, review and discussion questions and a practice quiz. Throughout the text there are also specific teaching features to provide students and instructors with an enhanced pedagogical experience. These features include:

• The Manager's Corner: These sections provide real-world examples that instructors may highlight to exemplify theory or as mini-cases for discussion.
• Marketing in Action: These sections ask students to apply concepts and theories to actual business situations.
• Web Exercises: These mini sections provide students with real world issues and suggest websites for more information.

In addition, the authors provide ancillary lecture notes and Solution/Instructors manual online to aid instructors in their teaching activities.

Marketing Management: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 1: An Overview of Marketing.- Chapter 2: Marketing Planning.- Chapter 3: Understanding the Market Environment and the Competition.- Chapter 4: Understanding the Buyer.- Chapter 5: Marketing Research and Information.- Chapter 6: Estimating the Market Demand.- Chapter 7: Market Segmentation, Positioning, and Branding.- Chapter 8: Product and Service Decisions.- Chapter 9: New Products.- Chapter 10: Pricing Decisions.- Chapter 11: Distribution and Supply Chain Management.- Chapter 12: Designing Effective Promotion and Advertising Strategies.- Chapter 13: Direct Marketing, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations.- Chapter 14: Selling and Sales Management.- Chapter 15: The Future of Marketing.- Case 1: Yo Man, It's Yao Ming.- Case 2: BMW Marketing Innovation.- Case 3: It Is Not on the Shelf! Is It? - How Marketing Myopia Occurs.- Case 4: Citibank N.A. in Japan.- Case 5: Gap Inc.- Case 6: The Value-Breeding Bond Network of Hawthorn: A Relationship Marketing Context in a Business-to-Business Setting.- Case 7: Marketing and the Environment: Tuna versus Dolphins.- Case 8: The Embryonic Phase of Spectrum Color.- Case 9: Implications of the Ancient Business Concepts for Contemporary Markets: Background and a Case Example.- Case 10: Will Natural Diamonds Remain Forever.- Case 11: Does Mattel Sell Dolls or Dreams.- Case 12:  The Changing Global Context: A Philosophical Approach to Deal with the Embryonic Market Environment.- Glossary.- Company Index.- Name Index.- Subject Index.