Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good - Softcover

Nancy R. Lee; Philip Kotler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 813211020X ISBN 13: 9788132110200

Publisher: Sage Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This is the definitive textbook for the planning and implementation of programs designed to bring about social change. The authors take key marketing principles and show readers how to apply them to campaigns and efforts to improve health, decrease injuries, protect the environment, build communities, and enhance financial well-being. Social marketing has grown in its sophistication and application to a wider array of social problems, and the Fourth Edition captures the momentum and excitement of this burgeoning field.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Kellogg was voted the Best Business School for 6 years in Business Week’s survey of U.S. business schools. It is also rated as the Best Business School for the Teaching of Marketing. Professor Kotler has significantly contributed to Kellogg’s success through his many years of research and teaching there.

He received his master’s degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD degree at MIT, both in economics. He did postdoctoral work in mathematics at Harvard University and in behavioral science at the University of Chicago.

Professor Kotler is the author of Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, implementation and Control, the most widely used marketing book in graduate business schools worldwide; Principles of Marketing; Marketing Models; Strategic Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations; The New Competition; High Visibility; Social Marketing; Marketing Places; Marketing for Congregations; Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism; The Marketing of Nations; and Kotler on Marketing. He has published over 100 articles in leading journals, several of which have received best article awards.

Professor Kotler was the first recipient of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Distinguished Marketing Educator Award (1985). The European Association of Marketing Consultants and Sales Trainers awarded him their prize for Marketing Excellence. He was chosen as the Leader in Marketing Thought by the Academic Members of the AMA in a 1975 survey. He also received the 1978 Paul Converse Award of the AMA, honoring his original contribution to marketing. In 1995, the Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI) named him Marketer of the Year.

Professor Kotler has consulted for such companies as IBM, General Electric, AT&T, Honeywell, Bank of America, Merck, and others in the areas of marketing strategy and planning, marketing organization, and international marketing.

He has been Chairman of the College of Marketing of the Institute of Management Sciences, Director of the American Marketing Association, Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute, Director of the MAC Group, former member of the Yankelovich Advisory Board, and a member of the Copernicus Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Advisory Board of the Drucker Foundation. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Stockholm University, University of Zurich, Athens University of Economics and Business, DePaul University, the Cracow School of Business and Economics, Groupe H.E.C. in Paris, the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, the Catholic University of Santo Domingo, and the Budapest School of Economic Science and Public Administration.

He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and South America, advising and lecturing to many companies and organizations. This experience expands the scope and depth of his programs, enhancing them with an accurate global perspective.

Review:

"Social Marketing is a must addition to general and undergraduate collections and a welcome addition to graduate, faculty, and practitioner libraries." (N.E. Furlow Choice Magazine )

"Highly educative read." (Business Line Business Line )

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 813211020X
• ISBN 13: 9788132110200
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4