The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing)

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing)

by Matthew Higgins (Editor), Mark Tadajewski (Editor), Mark Tadajewski (Editor), Matthew Higgins (Editor), Mark Tadajewski (Editor), Rohit Varman (Editor), Janice Denegri-Knott (Editor)

Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in critical marketing studies in one authoritative and convenient volume. The world's leading scholars and rising stars collaborate here to provide a survey of this lively, discursive discipline. In doing so they demonstrate how a critical approach to marketing yields an enriched understanding of marketing practice, its role in society, and its relationship with consumers themselves.

The volume includes introductions to key paradigms such as postmodernism, feminism, and critical theory, defining their applications to and impact on marketing scholarship. Following this is an exploration of key concepts such as big data, commoditization, and social media, summarizing the insights and interrogations made by culture theorists in recent years. The final part of the volume outlines critical definitions of consumers: vulnerable, addicted, and defiant, among others.

The first attempt to capture the state of critical marketing research in many years, this seminal work is unmissable for scholars and students of consumer culture theory and advanced marketing.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 15 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 1138641405
ISBN 13: 9781138641402

Media Reviews

This edited volume on critical marketing studies is essential reading for all constituencies, including academics, marketing practitioners, consumers, and advocacy groups, that wish to fully understand the good, bad, and ugly of how exchange relationships manifest in most economies. Well-written, timely, and documented to the finest detail, the various authors put forth an excellent analysis and critique of a system that impacts all of humanity and its quality of life. Read it or face the consequences of continued ignorance!
Ronald Paul Hill, Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Maryland, is a Visiting Professor of Marketing and holds a Dean's Excellence Faculty Fellowship at the American University, Kogod School of Business.

This book offers a foundational resource for critical work in marketing that goes beyond criticism to generate compelling new ideas, productive insights, and transformational paradigms. Close attention will cause readers to rethink their fundamental understanding of marketing.
Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor in Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA

There is a great need for more critical marketing studies and this book brings together a thorough review of what has been done thus far. Inspiration abounds in these chapters and they will open the imagination and conscience to new problems that cry out for critical attention.
Russell Belk, York University Distinguished Research Professor and Kraft Foods Canada Chair of Marketing

Drawing on their vast collective knowledge, Tadajewski, Higgins, Denegri-Knott and Varman skilfully help students and scholars understand the importance, trajectory and scope of critical marketing studies. This is the kind of companion I wish I'd had when I began my career. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Professor Anthony Patterson, University of Liverpool

Author Bio
Mark Tadajewski is Professor of Marketing at Durham University, UK. Matthew Higgins is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the University of Leicester, UK. Janice Denegri-Knott is Principal Academic of Interactive Marketing at Bournemouth University, UK. Rohit Varman is Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, India.