1. The Identity Crisis in Marketing.
- Author
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Bartels, Robert
- Subjects
MARKETING theory ,MARKETING ,MARKETING management ,MARKETING research ,BUSINESS ,BUSINESS logistics ,MANAGEMENT science ,OCCUPATIONS ,SPECIALISTS ,PROFESSIONS - Abstract
Marketing, which was traditionally a tightly defined discipline, has in recent years become all things to all people. This development has encouraged a proliferation of specialists, in theory and practice, while marketing generalists have sought with difficulty to conceptualize the dimensions of marketing in its broader meaning. Whether marketing is really generic is a question approaching crisis proportions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1974
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