ABSTRACT

This book provides new insights into the changes in interpretation of marketing and the evolution of marketing strategies during the twentieth century. The focus is on the development of mass marketing in the United States and the way in which more flexible and adaptable forms of marketing have increasingly been taking over. This highly international volume draws contributors from the USA, Europe and Japan, and from a variety of academic disciplines, including marketing, economics and business history. Chapters provide detailed analysis of the marketing of a range of products including cars, washing machines, food retailing, Scotch whisky, computers, financial services and wheat.

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|28 pages

The fourth phase of marketing

Marketing history and the business world today

chapter 3|22 pages

Mass marketing motor cars in Britain before 1950

The missing dimension

chapter 4|35 pages

The rise and fall of mass marketing?

Food retailing in Great Britain since 1960

chapter 6|16 pages

The marketing of Scotch whisky

An historical perspective

chapter 7|18 pages

A machine on every desk

The development of the mass market in computers

chapter 9|21 pages

International wheat marketing in the post-war period

An Australian perspective on the era of discriminating buyers

chapter 10|22 pages

An economic theory of marketing

chapter 11|31 pages

Conceptualizing an adaptable marketing system

The end of mass marketing