Thoroughly updated, this much anticipated new edition provides students with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view of industrial marketing. With a focus on strategic thinking and acting, the authors examine the distinct challenges of the business-to-business marketplace. These include: faster product and service development; shortened product life cycles;, new processes for selling, distribution, and customer service; increase in entrepreneurial firms; and the need to create and sustain long-term customer relationships. Separate chapters are devoted to buying decisions, market research and analysis, and purchasing practices, including treatment of the latest technological developments in just-in-time systems, Web-based procurement, and enterprise resource planning and manufacturing systems. Each chapter includes illustrations of real world marketing issues, key concepts, learning objectives, and discussion questions.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780803959644
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-8039-5964-4
- Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.03.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Third Auflage
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1242 g
- Seiten: 560
- Format (B x H x T): 183 x 260 x 35 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt