Strategic marketing management

Strategic Marketing Management is a post-introductory text in Marketing which is thoroughly European - the French language edition is already the best-selling marketing textbook in France. Comprising sixteen chapters carefully structured within five parts, this book offers innovative and comprehensive coverage of strategic marketing management.In Part 1 the distinction between operational marketing and strategic marketing is made, and the reader is shown why, in the new European macromarket, strategy is most important and why the entire organization must be market-oriented. Part 2 opens with an analysis of the needs of individuals and organizations in order to establish the buyer's purchase and response behaviour, and examines the vital role of market research in this process. Part 3 is devoted to the tasks of strategic marketing. Part 4 looks closely at issues of implementation. Finally, in Part 5 there are fifteen topical case studies with follow-up questions which have been specially selected to illustrate and examine a wide range of strategic marketing management issues.