Marketing Management: A Customer-Oriented Approach

This concise new text covers all the traditional topics of the course, and also contemporary subjects such as data warehousing, Web site management, and CRM - all areas of work that students will encounter in their future marketing careers. Unique to this text is its customer orientation, reflected in its content, but also in the way that the authors organize the material through the sequence of customer acquisition, interactions, and retention. Each chapter includes topical mini-cases such as the launch of the iPhone, e-Harmony.com, and Southwest Airlines. In addition, there are eight full cases in the back of the book, together with a helpful student guide to analyzing a case.

Kenneth Clow is a Professor of Marketing and holds the Biedenharn Endowed Chair of Business in the College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Previously, he served as Dean at both the University of Louisiana at Monroe and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He teaching career began at Pittsburg State University where he also served as the MBA Director. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 1992.

Dr. Clow has published a total of 190 articles in academic journals and proceedings and has written 13 textbooks. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Services Marketing, Services Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Management Journal, Journal of Economics and Finance Education, International Journal of Business, Marketing, and Decision Sciences, Journal of Internet Commerce, Health Marketing Quarterly, and Journal of Restaurant and Foodservices Marketing.

Books co-authored by Professor Clow include Integrated Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing Communications, 4^th edition (Prentice Hall), Concise Encyclopedia of Advertising (Haworth), Essentials of Marketing, 3^rd edition (Cengage), Services Marketing, 2^nd edition (Atomic Dog), Concise Encyclopedia of Professional Services Marketing (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group), The IMC PlanPro Handbook, and Marketing Management (SAGE).

Donald Baack holds the rank of University Professor of management at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University, where he has taught since 1988. He previously held positions at Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Southern State College, and Dana College. Baack received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1987. His primary area of study was Organization and Management Theory.

Professor Baack is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Managerial Issues and has published in the journal. He has also published in Human Relations, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Customer Service in Marketing, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Journal of Global Awareness, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Euromarketing, Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, and the Journal of Advertising Research.

Dr. Baack has authored Organizational Behavior (Dame), International Business (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), and Integrated Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing Communications (Prentice Hall, co-author to Kenneth D. Clow). Clow and Baack also wrote the Concise Encyclopedia of Advertising (Haworth). Baack and his son Daniel W. Baack recently prepared a series of 10 modules entitled "Ethics Across the Curriculum" for Pearson Custom Publishing. He also published three popular press books in the area of romance/self help.

Baack has been active in the Southwest Academy of Management for many years, serving as its President in 1996. He was nominated for SWAM's Distinguished Educator award in 2007 and 2008. He is married (Pamela) with three children.