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Fully updated and revised, the eighth edition of this popular text reflects the changing focus of international marketing and ensures students are fully up-to-date with the challenges posed by new patterns of development in global markets. It provides students with accessible content from around the world including newly emerging economies as well as explaining the increasingly global risks such as natural disasters and the role of digital developments. An exciting range of features including Management Challenges, Directed Study Activities and contemporary case studies guide students through the complexities of international marketing as it responds to a rapidly changing environment.
This groundbreaking text analyses the decisions within the overall planning process of strategy development within a global context. The text identifies the issues faced at each stage of the strategic process and focuses on how more effective decisions can be made with the marketing environment.Strategic Marketing Decisions in global markets meets the needs of marketing students and practitioners in an up-to-date and innovative manner. It recognises the increasing time pressures of both students and managers and so strives to maintain the readability and clarity through a straightforward and logical structure that will enable them to apply their learning to the tasks ahead.
This textbook sets out the context, techniques and strategies involved in successful international marketing. It breaks down the area into three main parts: analysis - including trading environment, market considerations, research and opportunities; development - including planning, standardization, entry strategies; and implementation - including product strategy, international communication, distribution, pricing, challenges. It takes material from around the world, including Europe, Australia, Pacific Rim and USA, covering consumer and business to business, manufacturing and services. With short case illustrations, longer integrated cases, summaries and discussion points, undergraduate students should find this easy to use both as a course book and for revision reference. Following the new syllabus of the international marketing section of CIM qualifications, this should also serve as reading for any student undertaking these examinations.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate the market in terms of sheer number of organizations. Their role in the business world is difficult to overstate. Despite this, there is a high failure rate among smaller organizations, which can be explained to a significant degree by a lack of marketing understanding in this sector. Introducing the importance of marketing to entrepreneurial firms this book guides the student through the fundamentals of marketing within the SME context, providing a more value-added learning experience than your standard marketing run-through. The authors deal directly with "people issues" (i.e. everyday entrepreneurial marketing interactions) to prepare students for the "dragon’s den" of entrepreneurialism. This new and lively textbook provides a fresh and unfettered approach for marketing students who require a more real-world understanding of the impact of their discipline on entrepreneurial firms. The growing student body involved with studying entrepreneurship will also benefit from the customer insight offered by this approach.
Reviewed by CIM, this course book is part of the "Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann's 2006-07 CIM Coursebook" series.
This reader collects together key articles in international marketing, building on a four-part framework of market analysis, strategy development, implementation issues and international marketing management. It explores in more depth the essential elements of marketing in the international context, illustrating developments in the area with detailed examples of particular strategies and techniques; it covers such topics as strategic alliances, entrepreneurship, advertising, branding, culture and multinational portfolios. The editors provide an overview, commentary and discussion questions to draw out the key issues from the articles and relate them to the central framework. This reader coll...
This comprehensive textbook provides an easy introduction to the subject of customers and ensures that the needs of business students will be met in an up-to-date and innovative manner.
Carefully structured to link information directly to the CIM syllabus, this coursebook text offers a range of cases, questions, activities, definitions and study tips to support and test your understanding of the theory.