Bücher der Reihe Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

Challenges the prevailing orthodoxies within consumer research methodology by examining representation and constructions of "truth". The contributors to this text adopt a variety of theoretical approaches drawing on postmodernism, photography, literary theory, narratology and poetry.

This edited collection brings together a range of international studies to explore the role of markets and consumption in the making of mothers. Combining personal accounts from many mothers with different theoretical perspectives, this book examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what mothers are, what they should care about and how they should behave.

Scholars from various disciplines within the fields of public relations, branding, marketing and corporate identity have come together in Contemporary Perspectives on Corporate Marketing to offer the latest approaches and studies in these areas.

This book provides a holistic and systemic approach to both studying and solving wicked problems. Within the chapters of this book, macro-social marketing approaches to analysing and defining wicked problems, to identifying stakeholders and potential ripple effects, and implementing macro-level change are presented.

Organised into four sections covering: The Death Industry; Death Rituals and Consumption; Death and the Body and Critiques of the Death-Consumption Link, Death in Consumer Culture presents the broadest array of research on the topic of death and consumer behaviour across disciplinary boundaries. Offering a richly unique anthology on this challenging topic, this book will be of interest to researchers working at the intersection consumer culture, marketing and mortality.

Jonathan Schroeder brings together a curated selection of papers on brands and branding, originally published in the interdisciplinary journal Consumption Markets and Culture. Organised into four perspectives - cultural, corporate, consumer, and critical ¿ each section contextualised by a new introduction from leading brand scholars. This thought-provoking collection will be of interest to scholars of marketing, consumer behaviour, and sociology and anyone interested in the role brands play in our lives and culture.

Stimulating, challenging discussions of feminist perspectives in marketing. This book highlights assumptions about women and gender in theory and practice. Topics include the 'dark side' of female consumption and marketing, sex and sexuality.

Examining consumption, this book focuses on concepts of autonomy and rationality. It adopts a moderating perspective, reviewing and critiquing attacks on these concepts in order to work towards a more refined view of the consumer.

Investigates the constructions and reconstructions of discourse that surround the uses of interactivity in contemporary advertising, public relations, and 'guerrilla marketing'. This book offers a fresh theory of marketing communication based upon approaching persuasion as a dynamic, endless negotiation between distinction-making systems.

Offers a critical survey of important contributions to managerial marketing discourse from the earliest twentieth century onwards, covering traditions of research such as scientific selling, marketing management and service marketing and drawing from Michel Foucault's understanding of power and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's Discourse Theory.

Presents a structured approach to consumer research, showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours.

A key text containing something for everyone, Consuming Books not only complements the 'how-to' genre but provides the depth that previous studies of book consumption conspicuously lack.

This book draws on a wide range of recent European and North American studies in critical, ethnographic and interpretative traditions of marketing. It highlights the influence of social construction on the study of marketing.

Incorporating case studies from the US, Europe and the UK, this book provides a guide to the visual consumption processes necessary for understanding and succeeding in today's market.

Why do consumers buy particular products, brands and services? How do they think and feel about their cravings? This book provides provocative answers to all these questions. Formerly only available in Hardback.

Including essays from scholars such as Zygmunt Baumann, Russell Belk, Colin Campbell, Deirdre McCloskey, and Neva Goodwin, this title brings together a diverse set of expert scholars to enliven and sharpen the debate about the ways in which consumption affects society.

Explores in detail and theoretical depth the relationships that the consumer has developed both with goods and services and with the stakeholders that animate markets. Beginning with an examination of the underpinnings of cultural inquiry, this book focuses on specific consumption venues.

Analyzes the nature and role of interpretation in social interactions, decision making in social science enquires and consumer marketing, in the use of statistics and causal analysis, in consumer evaluations of products and in interpreting problematic situations along side biases arising from the emotions.

This book brings together a diverse set of expert scholars to enliven and sharpen the debate about the ways in which consumption affects society today. Research on consumption can shed light on many fundamental questions, such as the character of society, including social and cultural dimensions; the relations between the generations; dependency of technology and the risks involved; the rise of Asia and its potential consumption preferences; the question of whether we must continuously increase our consumption to avoid a recession and whether this is ecologically sustainable.

Based on a conceptual analysis of marketing texts and a case study of a service firm that utilizes innovative approaches to managing organizations, this book presents a critical examination of marketing as a managerial practice.