Overview, Learning Outcomes and Structure of the Lesson
Marketing Defined
Marketing's Evolution and Key Components
Marketing in Crisis
Sustainability and the Marketing of the Future
Review and Discussion Questions
What are the core components of the modern mainstream marketing discipline?
In what ways do you believe that sustainability marketing is an evolutionary development of existing marketing practices, and in what ways might it be considered revolutionary?
Literature and References
Belz, F.M., Peattie, K. (2012): Sustainability Marketing: A Global Perspective, 2. ed., Chichester: Wiley, p. 1 - 20. In the first chapter of their book, Belz and Peattie discuss the issues touched upon in this chapter.
Gronroos, C. (2007): In Search of a New Logic for Marketing, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Gronroos, a leading scholar, is taking a step back and taking a very critical look at the way in which marketing has developed, coming to the conclusion that we do need a very different view of marketing for the future.