Welcome to your Marketing, Branding and Strategy reading list. Here you will find resources selected by your course team to support you throughout this module.
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Recommended Reading
The New Brand Spirit by Christian Conrad; Marjorie Ellis ThompsonEffective sustainability communication can deliver business value. Get it wrong, however, and the reputational damage will be costly. Stakeholders, and the general public as well as activists, are unforgiving of companies whose products, services, business practices or culture fall short of their socially responsible rhetoric. Based on close to one hundred in-depth interviews with leading experts, Christian Conrad and Marjorie Thompson's The New Brand Spirit helps corporate communications and marketing professionals tackle this conundrum by providing a first-hand view of eight distinct and relevant stakeholder perspectives. Nineteen comprehensive and well-researched best practice cases from sustainability leaders like IBM, Unilever, Marks & Spencer and Puma will inspire all those tasked with communicating sustainability with practical and applicable tools and lessons learned. The result is a book that will enable senior executives, corporate communication professionals and brand managers to decide when, to whom and how to communicate sustainability related messages - and when not to.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781317023043
Publication Date: 2016
Creating Powerful Brands by Leslie de Chernatony; Malcolm McDonald; Elaine WallaceThis has long been the one book that students can rely on to get them thinking critically and strategically about branding. This new fourth edition is no exception. THE definitive introductory textbook for this crucial topic, it is highly illustrated and comes packed with over 50 brand-new, real examples of influential marketing campaigns. In this influential textbook, de Chernatony, McDonald & Wallace: * Summarise the latest thinking and best practice in the domain of branding * Show how branding theories are implemented in practice with all new real marketing campaigns * Bring the story up-to-date with a clear European focus Undergraduate business and marketing students studying brand management will find this an invaluable resource in their quest to understand how branding really works.
Call Number: 658.827 CHE
ISBN: 9781856178495
Publication Date: 2010
Creating Passion Brands by Helen Edwards; Derek Day"Intelligently written and elegantly argued, it gives vivid examples of a whole new way of looking at brands, with a passion." -Leslie Butterfield, Managing Partner, The Ingram Partnership "A book of tremendous practical application that also includes high-level, intellectual debate." -Professor Mark Ritson, London Business School At the core of this book is an inspiring ideal: that for both commercial and social reasons, brands need to regain their sense of belief. They need the courage to stand for something, rather than responding to the latest consumer whim. It is a timely argument. Faced with crowded markets, flat growth and growing consumer cynicism, brand marketers are looking for ways to deepen the emotional connection between brands and consumers. Through interviews and case studies, the authors show how belief-led brands like Google, Innocent, Zara and Camper have outstripped the growth of their peers by igniting passion among employees and consumers alike. They are Passionbrands, and they point the way forward for marketing in the 21st century. The book is practical as well as inspiring. Drawing on the very latest academic research and Millward Brown's unique global research into brand value, the authors reveal a systematic approach to the business of creating Passionbrands from existing brands, no matter how humdrum or mainstream the category. Always vivid, often contentious, Creating Passionbrands shows what really counts today at the heart of branding.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780749443702
Publication Date: 2005
Marketing Communications by Chris Fill; Sarah Turnbull The new edition of Marketing Communications delivers a rich blend of theory with examples of contemporary marketing practice. Providing a critical insight into how brands engage audiences, Fill and Turnbull continues to be the definitive marketing communications text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in marketing and related fields. The eighth edition, which contains two new chapters, reflects the changing and disruptive world of marketing communications. Throughout the text the impact of digital media and its ability to influence audience, client, and agency experiences, is considered. Each chapter has been extensively revised, with new examples, the latest theoretical insights, and suggested reading materials. Each of the 22 chapters also has a new case study, drawn from brands and agencies from around the world. Marketing Communications is recognised as the authoritative text for professional courses such as The Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is supported by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
Call Number: 658.802 FIL + eBook
ISBN: 9781292234977
Publication Date: 2019
The New Strategic Brand Management by Jean-Noël KapfererAdopted internationally by business schools and MBA programmes, this book is the ultimate resource for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students to understand and overcome the challenges of brand management and strategy today, written by the leading international expert of branding, Jean-Noël Kapferer.The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for branding professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy, but also has become synonymous with the topic itself. Using an array of international case studies, this book covers all the leading issues faced by brand strategists today, with both gravitas and intelligent insight. It reveals new thinking on topics such as putting culture and content into brands, the impact of private labels and the comeback of local brands.This updated fifth edition builds on the book's already impressive reputation, including new content that will help students and practitioners stay up to date with targeting, with relevant research and market knowledge to support the discipline. With dedicated sections for specific types of brands (luxury, corporate and retail), international examples and case studies from companies such as Audi, Nivea, Toyota and Absolut Vodka; plus models and frameworks such as the Brand Identity Prism; The New Strategic Brand Management remains at the forefront of strategic brand thinking.
Marketing Graffiti by Mike SarenRadical and unique in its approach and presentation, Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as 'consumers' in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function - i.e. how to "do" marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture, and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way, Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products, businesses, technologies, information, services, ads, packaging and branding, Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new, updated or expanded sections on market exclusion, the role of the consumer in innovation, space and place, pricing, consumer communities, collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references, guides to further reading, teaching slides and test bank questions
Call Number: 658.8 SAR
ISBN: 9781138013322
Publication Date: 2017
Marketing Theory by Michael J. Baker (Editor); Michael Saren (Editor)Marketing Theory introduces and explains the role of theory in marketing by uncovering its histories, disciplinary underpinnings, subfields, discourses and debates. From strategy and ethics to digital marketing and consumer behaviour, leading marketing experts shine a light on what can be a challenging perspective of marketing. In this new Third Edition there are up-to-date examples from global companies such as Pepsi, Amazon and H&M; entirely new chapters on Digital and Social Media Marketing, and Service-Dominant Logic (SD-L) and contributions from Global Specialists including Bob Lusch, Patrick Murphy and Susan Hart. Ideal for Upper level undergraduate and postgraduate marketing students studying marketing theory, critical marketing, and the history of marketing modules.