The Rhetoric and Reality of Marketing: An International Managerial Approach

This book compares and contrasts how different firms approach marketing within the same country. It concerns issues revolving around marketing as a form of rhetoric and marketing as a living reality for firms who practice it and contains cutting edge thinking from expert commentators on the marketing scene worldwide. It uses 16 case study examples of marketing practice in eight countries and shows whether marketing allegiance is openly proclaimed but in practice merely a rhetorical device or whether it is deeply embedded in organizational culture.

PATRICK HETZEL Professor of Marketing, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris MARTIN EVANS Senior Teaching Fellow, Cardiff Business School IOANNA PAPASOLOMOU-DOUKAKIS Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, Intercollege LYNNE EAGLE Senior Marketing Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand DONGJIN YOON Professor In the Division of Business Administration, Woosuk University of Korea INCHUL KIM Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Dongeui University, Korea ROSMIMAH MOHD-ROSLIN Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia VESSELIN BLAGOEV Chairman of the Bulgarian Marketing Association ASHISH SADH Assistant Professor of Marketing Management at IIMI SHARADA TANGIRALA Freelance Media Consultant