Marketing Communication: A Critical Introduction

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Marketing Communication challenges the orthodox view of marketing communication. Using references to communication studies, cultural studies, and critical management studies, the focus of managing marketing communication is shifted from message-making to relationship-building. This textbook provides a contemporary examination of marketing as a social process. The scope of communication theory is broadened and a two-way conception of communication is introduced. The existing model of marketing communication is replaced with a new and exciting concept, that integrates the relational and social emphases of the twenty-first century. Marketing Communication investigates the problems of organizing and locating marketing in a business corporation, management responsibility for planning and decision making, and the role of the marketing communication manager in contemporary society.

Richard J. Varey teaches and researches the communication issues of the management of marketing relationships, previously at the University of Salford, and now at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has published widely on the future of marketing in a sustainable society, relationship marketing, and corporate communication. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Customer Behaviour, The Journal of Marketing Communications, The Journal of Communication Management, and The Corporate Reputation Review. He was the BIM Young Manager of the Year in 1991.