Contemporary Perspectives on Corporate Marketing (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)

Corporate marketing and corporate communications are topics that have grown in scholarly and practical importance in these last decades. Fields such as branding, marketing communications and public relations have all contributed to this boost.

Whilst there is a large amount of literature on each of these disciplines, there is little systematic development from the perspective of corporate marketing and corporate communication studies, although these two have the most to contribute to how companies manage their brands, image and corporate identities in the 21st Century. This book seeks to redress this balance and provide insights, via case studies or histories, on issues such as nation branding, managing multiple corporate identities during merger and acquisitions and establishing a company’s CSR and green image.

Scholars from various disciplines within the fields of public relations, branding, marketing and corporate identity have come together in Contemporary Perspectives on Corporate Marketing to offer the latest approaches and studies in these areas. As such, it will become a platform for developments in the field and serve as a respected reference resource for corporate marketing and corporate communication studies.

John M. T. Balmer is Director of the Marketing Research Group and Professor of Corporate Marketing at Brunel Business School, UK and quondam Professor of Corporate Brand/Identity Management at Bradford School of Management, UK

Laura Illia is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of the Master in Corporate Communication at IE University, Madrid, Spain. She investigated and taught at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and the University of Lugano, Switzerland, where she received her PhD

Almudena González del Valle Brena is Researcher at Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain and Online Lecturer at IEP in Madrid. She has investigated and taught at IE University, Spain and other private universities in Spain and the UK. She received her PhD from the University of Westminster, UK