Social Responsibility in Marketing: A Proactive and Profitable Marketing Management Strategy

A. Coskun Samli

ISBN 10: 0899306284 / ISBN 13: 9780899306285

Editore: Praeger, 1992

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Riassunto:

The author contrasts Adam Smith's market to the prevailing American market stating that, in order to achieve the same results that Adam Smith's perfectly competitive market could have created, a socially responsible behavior on the part of marketing is necessary. Marketing can achieve greater profits and higher quality of life for the whole society by being consumer oriented and proactive, and by considering consumers' well-being the highest priority. Marketing must reach out and cater to, not only the mainstream core markets, but to those who are less than equal opportunity consumers. These are special market segments such as the poor, elderly, minorities, and those who are particularly vulnerable. Marketing must also develop environment and consumer-friendly products and services.

The prevailing market conditions in the United States are in favor of certain select groups. Furthermore, many conditions in the existing market are borderline pathological and need to be corrected. In addition to these, there are those consumers who are very vulnerable such as the elderly, the poor, the undereducated, and the frail. These groups cannot make the best purchase decisions nor do they have access to many facets of the market. Marketing must make a special effort to provide education, information, and protection for them and must bring as many people as possible into the mainstream of the economy. Unless marketing can take a proactive position and bring about products and services that are good, functional, and non-hazardous, consumers will not be able to optimize their purchase decisions.

Informazioni sugli autori:

A. COSKUN SAMLI is a Research Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. His most recent books include Retail Marketing Strategies, Marketing and the Quality-of-Life Interface, and Technology Transfer (1989, 1987, 1985). He is the author or co-author of more than thirty other booklength studies and over two-hundred articles in the field of marketing. Samli was a Ford Foundation Fellow, Sears AACSB Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, and AACSB Beta Gamma Sigma L. J. Buchan Distinguished Professor. He has done numerous projects on the poverty, elderly, and the quality of life.

A. COSKUN SAMLI is a Research Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. His most recent books include Retail Marketing Strategies, Marketing and the Quality-of-Life Interface, and Technology Transfer (1989, 1987, 1985). He is the author or co-author of more than thirty other booklength studies and over two-hundred articles in the field of marketing. Samli was a Ford Foundation Fellow, Sears AACSB Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, and AACSB Beta Gamma Sigma L. J. Buchan Distinguished Professor. He has done numerous projects on the poverty, elderly, and the quality of life.

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Titolo: Social Responsibility in Marketing: A ...
Casa editrice: Praeger
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
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