The emergence of the marketing professional in schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 883-900
Author(s):  
Paula McDonald ◽  
Barbara Pini ◽  
Jennifer Bartlett
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria M. Raciti

Purpose Social marketing has come of age. Today, the study is a legitimate discipline with a wealth of empirical evidence that manifestly demonstrates the ability to bring about behaviour changes for the greater good. As social marketers, the study is rapidly expanding the horizons, with a growing interest in the labyrinth of systems that influence the chosen social causes. The study has become brave and bold, but is the study now running the risk of romanticising the work and ourselves? It is time to recalibrate, to take stock and to address the elephants in the social marketing room. Design/methodology/approach Expanding on my Change 2020 Driving Systems Change panel presentation, this study is a provocation, a think piece, centred around two observed phenomena. Findings The first phenomenon observed is the many identities of the contemporary social marketer – hackers, change agents, heroes, political power brokers and master puppeteers. The second phenomenon observed is the accelerated interest in systems thinking for which the author propose three preconditions are needed – an awareness of the system(s); an acknowledgement that this study is a part of the system(s) and the need to decolonise social marketing. Originality/value This paper poses challenging questions but offers no solutions as to how social marketers should, could or do square up the blind spots, make peace with the paradoxes or unblinking the views. Not only would it be naïve to proffer solutions but it would also stifle the growth of you, the reader, in your journey to becoming an integrated person and woke social marketing professional.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Raymond Benton, Jr

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to Victor Lebow, an unknown contributor to critical marketing studies. The paper also contributes to the literature on marketing amnesia. A brief biography of Lebow is presented in which it is established that he was a marketing professional. The paper then discusses his unacknowledged contribution to critical thought by exploring his only book. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a close reading of Lebow’s only book, contextualizing it by placing it in historical context. The paper uses a traditional historical narrative approach to present the results. Findings It is pointed out that the business system, including marketing, is riven with power relations that are largely unappreciated or ignored. Woven into Lebow’s account is an attempt to rethink aspects of theory, practice and especially institutions that had and have assumed a taken-for-granted status. It is established that Lebow’s thought, as a marketing professional, went well beyond typical marketing. He presents an interesting and innovative program for converting private enterprise into a socially responsible structure without resulting to any form of socialism. Originality/value No such review or evaluation of Victor Lebow has been published. One 1955 article has been frequently cited. His wider thought has been ignored.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
T. V. SKIBA

  The article examines the role of creative marketing in a market economy. The essence and content of the concepts of creativity, creative marketing are considered, the conditions of its introduction, the types of marketing creativity are proposed. Creativity, innovation in socio-economic processes are the basis of high competitiveness in various activities is proved. In traditional goods and services, an increasing percentage of value added is original innovation. Creative marketing acts as a result of the creative thinking of a marketing professional. In general, it is the freedom to make a marketing decision based on the current environment, experience, knowledge, consumer behavior in each of the market segments are determined. Creative marketing as a marketing activity, which is based on innovative, non-standard solutions that allow to achieve significant results without dramatic changes in the available opportunities are characterized. The creative approach to marketing instruments is described as a reaction to the harsh unusual conditions of the foreign market and the practical lack of resources for development. Low effectiveness of traditional marketing tools creates the preconditions for the formation of new marketing tools and tools, develops new technologies for their implementation in practice, methods, techniques, and the institutional basis of new types of marketing are proved. Particular attention is paid to the practical component of creative marketing, which should prevail over the creative component of a process or result, since the evaluation of the effectiveness of a marketing idea will be carried out not by the degree of its originality, but by the degree of innovation, that is economic efficiency. While any results of creative marketing are affected by the perception of the brand of the company and the product itself, its ability to turn into an economic result creates the preconditions for the successful promotion of the product in the market. The groups of marketing creativity that provide stable high economic result: organizational marketing creativity and applied marketing creativity are covered.


1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Hiltner ◽  
John Gillett ◽  
Dennis Elbert

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