Culture pervades consumption and marketing activity in ways that potentially benefit marketing managers. This book provides a comprehensive account of cultural knowledge and skills useful in strategic marketing management. In making these cultural concepts and frameworks accessible and in discussing how to use them, this edited textbook goes beyond the identification of historical, sociocultural, and political factors impinging upon consumer cultures and their effects on market outcomes.
This fully updated and restructured new edition provides two new introductory chapters on culture and marketing practice and improved pedagogy, to give a deeper understanding of how culture pervades consumption and marketing phenomena; the way market meanings are made, circulated, and negotiated; and the environmental, ethical, experiential, social, and symbolic implications of consumption and marketing. The authors highlight the benefits that managers can reap from applying interpretive cultural approaches across the realm of strategic marketing activities including: market segmentation, product and brand positioning, market research, pricing, product development, advertising, and retail distribution. Global contributions are grounded in the authors' primary research with a range of companies including Cadbury's Flake, Dior, Dove, General Motors, HOM, Hummer, Kjaer Group, Le Bon Coin, Mama Shelter, Mecca Cola, Prada, SignBank, and the Twilight community. This edited volume, which compiles the work of 58 scholars from 14 countries, delivers a truly innovative, multinationally focused marketing management textbook.
Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective is a timely and relevant learning resource for marketing students, lecturers, and managers across the world.
About the Author: Luca M. Visconti is Professor of Marketing at Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, and ESCP Europe in Paris, France. His research deals with consumer vulnerability, cultural branding, and storytelling. He is especially interested in the ultimate effects of consumption, marketing, and markets in terms of personal and societal wellbeing.
Lisa Peñaloza is Professor of Marketing at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France. Her ethnographic research examines how consumers collectively produce identity and community for cultural survival, with attention to social organization and market politics. She teaches masters and doctoral courses on qualitative research, consumer culture, and cultural branding.
Nil Toulouse is Professor of Marketing at the University of Lille, France. Her research focuses on theoretical issues in transformative research and consumer culture theory, including consumer resistance, ethical consumption, acculturation and identity politics; as well as social marketing and public policy implications, including immigration, fair trade, poverty, and sustainable development.
