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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822758503321

Titolo

European business review . Volume 19, Number 6 Assessing and building upon Wroe Alderson's intellectual legacy / / guest editors: Professor Stanley J. Shapiro and Professor Goran Svensson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, : Emerald Insight, c2007

ISBN

1-281-14349-9

9786611143497

1-84663-685-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (104 p.)

Collana

European business review ; ; 19, no. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

ShapiroStanley J

SvenssonGoran

Disciplina

658.8/3

Soggetti

Marketing research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Wroe Alderson: father of modern marketing; The Wroe river: the canyon carved by Alderson; Placing Wroe Alderson's contributions to buyer behavior in historical perspective; An Aldersonian explanation of twenty-first century "mass customization"; Economizing in differentiated distribution networks: a transvection approach; A comment on Alderson's intellectual legacy; Book review

Sommario/riassunto

In the editorial introduction to this e-book, Stanley J. Shapiro opens with the statement that Wroe Alderson was unquestionably the most influential marketing thinker of the mid-twentieth century. However, with the decline of Ph.D. seminars in the history of marketing thought and the development of marketing theory, fewer young academics have heard of Alderson let alone read his work. This publication, it is hoped and expected, will mark the beginning of renewed 21st century interest in the nature, the scope and the magnitude of Wroe Alderson's original contributions to marketing theory and