Does Marketing Need Reform?: Fresh Perspectives on the Future

Jagdish N Sheth · Rajendra S Sisodia

Jan 2015 · Routledge

About this ebook

Many marketers fear that the field's time-worn principles are losing touch with today's realities. "Does Marketing Need Reform?" collects the insights of a select group of leading marketing thinkers and practitioners who are committed to restoring marketing's timeless values. The book sets the agenda for a new generation of marketing principles. As the editors note in their introduction; "Marketing is a powerful force backed up by huge resources. It must be entrusted only to those with the wisdom to use it well." The contributors seek to understand and explain how and why marketing has veered significantly off course in order to steer it back in the right direction. The concepts and perspectives presented in this book will inspire a renewed commitment to the highest ideals of marketing - serving customers individually and society as a whole by synergistically aligning company, customer, and social interests.

About the author

Jagdish N. Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He is internationally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. In 2004, Dr. Sheth was awarded both the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator and the Charles Coolidge Parlin Awards, the two highest awards given by the American Marketing Association. Dr. Sheth is a prolific author, with several hundred articles and books published. Rajendra S. Sisodia is Professor of Marketing at Bentley College. He has a PhD in Marketing from Columbia University. In 2003, he was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His book The Rule of Three (with Jag Sheth) was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. Forthcoming books include Firms of Endearment (with Jag Sheth and David Wolfe), Tectonic Shift: The Geopolitical Realignment of Nations and The 4 As of Marketing (both with Jag Sheth).