This book is one of the few contemporary works to begin to reinterpret marketing thought from a marketing exchange perspective. The book consists of sixteen newly authored chapters solicited for this reinterpretation.
The discussion begins with a description of the marketing taxonomy, identifying and distinguishing between marketing behavior and other non-marketing, need-satisfying behavior pertinent to marketers. The controversy surrounding such a taxonomy as well as alternative classifications of specific need-satisfying behaviors are examined in depth as well. Other topics specific...
This book is one of the few contemporary works to begin to reinterpret marketing thought from a marketing exchange perspective. The book consists o...
Franklin S. Houston Jule B. Gassenheimer James M. Maskulka
The American Marketing Association defines marketing as an exchange process. Exchange, however, has yet to be integrated into marketing thought. The authors map marketing, showing the role exchange plays in the discipline. This mapping results in not only a taxonomy of exchange, but a broader taxonomy within which we find exchange, offering one of the few contemporary discussions of a more general theory of marketing.
The authors examine the conditions necessary for exchange, the form value takes, and the law of exchange. In addition, they develop the importance of potency--the...
The American Marketing Association defines marketing as an exchange process. Exchange, however, has yet to be integrated into marketing thought. Th...
