Understanding the consumer - Szmigin, Isabelle (Sage Publications, 2003)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-197) and index
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- The Consumer-oriented Approach to Marketing; Chapter 2 -- New Products and their Meanings; Chapter 3 -- Paradoxes of Meaning; Chapter 4 -- Whose Marketplace is it Anyway?; Chapter 5 -- Innovation and the Creative Consumer; Chapter 6 -- Revisiting the Time of Adoption and Resistance; Chapter 7 -- When Innovation becomes Creativity; Chapter 8 -- Conspicuous Consumption, Downshifting and Reconsumption; Chapter 9 -- Production and Consumption; Chapter 10 -- Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Understanding the Consumer brings together marketing theory and practice in a truly consumer-centric approach. It challenges the lip service usually paid to this concept and demonstrates that a fundamental understanding of the consumer is critical to the future of effective marketing