The Psychology of Marketing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Gerhard Raab · G. Jason Goddard · Alexander Unger

feb 2016 · CRC Press

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This comprehensive guide to both the theory and application of psychology to marketing comes from the author team that produced the acclaimed Customer Relationship Management. It will be of immeasurable help to marketing executives and higher level students of marketing needing an advanced understanding of the applied science of psychology and how it bears on consumers; on influencing; and on the effective marketing of organizations themselves, as well as of products and services. Drawing on consumer, management, industrial, organizational, and market psychology, The Psychology of Marketing's in-depth treatment of theory embraces: ¢ Cognition theories. ¢ Personality, perception and memory. ¢ Motivation and emotion. ¢ Power, control, and exchange. Complemented by case studies from across the globe, The Psychology of Marketing provides a trans-national perspective on how the theory revealed here is applied in practice. Marketers and those aspiring to be marketers will find this book an invaluable help in their role as 'lay psychologists'.

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Gerhard Raab is Professor of International Marketing and Management and Director of the Transatlantik-Institut at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. G. Jason Goddard is the Vice President of Wachovia Corporation, Winston-Salem, N. Carolina, USA. Riad Ajami is Professor of International Management and Global Strategy at the Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Alexander Unger is a research assistant at the Transatlantik-Institut, Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.