Total Relationship Marketing

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Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2002-09-24
Publisher(s): Elsevier Science & Technology
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Summary

Total Relationship Marketing provides a genuinely unique new view of the meaning of marketing management and a complete introduction to the rapidly evolving field of relationship marketing. a major contribution to marketing thought internationally, this new edition of Gummesson's seminal title presents a powerful and in depth analysis of modern relationship marketing. Highly informative, practical in style, and packed with examples and cases from real companies, it is an essential resource for all serious marketing practitioners as well as both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Table of Contents

Figures and tables
viii
Preface and acknowledgements xi
Introduction xv
Rethinking marketing
1(32)
What are RM, CRM and 1to1?
3(6)
Society is a network of relationships-and so is business!
9(1)
The roots of RM
10(3)
Basic values of marketing
13(4)
RM versus transaction marketing
17(1)
Common sense, intuition and experience
18(2)
What do we see through the relationship eye-glasses?
20(1)
General properties of relationships, networks and interaction
20(7)
The 30Rs of RM -- introductory specification of thirty relationships
27(6)
Classic market relationships
33(26)
The classic dyad -- the relationship between the supplier and the customer
35(11)
The classic triad -- the drama of the customer-supplier-competitor triangle
46(6)
The classic network -- distribution channels
52(7)
Special market relationships
59(86)
Relationships via full-time marketers (FTMs) and part-time marketers (PTMs)
61(6)
The service encounter -- interaction between customers and service providers
67(6)
The many-headed customer and the many-headed supplier
73(6)
The relationship to the customer's customer
79(4)
The close versus the distant relationship
83(4)
The relationship to the dissatisfied customer
87(6)
The monopoly relationship -- the customer or supplier as prisoners
93(5)
The customer as `member'
98(3)
The e-relationship
101(10)
Parasocial relationships -- relationships to brands and objects
111(6)
The non-commercial relationship
117(5)
The green relationship
122(8)
The law-based relationship
130(6)
The criminal network
136(9)
Mega relationships
145(34)
Personal and social networks
147(5)
Mega marketing -- the real `customer' is not always found in the marketplace
152(5)
Alliances change the market mechanisms
157(5)
The knowledge relationship
162(6)
Mega alliances change the basic conditions for marketing
168(4)
The mass media relationship
172(7)
Nano relationships
179(46)
Market mechanisms are brought inside the company
181(5)
Internal customer relationships
186(4)
Quality and customer orientation: the relationship between operations management and marketing
190(7)
Internal marketing -- relationships with the `employee market'
197(6)
The two-dimensional matrix relationship
203(7)
The relationship to external providers of marketing services
210(5)
The owner and financier relationship
215(10)
Do RM and CRM pay?
225(30)
Return on relationships (ROR)
227(2)
Satisfaction, loyalty and ROR
229(3)
Duration, retention and defection
232(2)
Customer interaction, triplets and tribes
234(3)
Intellectual capital and the balanced scorecard
237(6)
Return on the non-measurable
243(3)
ROR and the whole network
246(1)
Strategies for improved ROR
247(2)
An RM-inspired marketing plan and audit
249(6)
RM, the network organization and the network society
255(26)
Introducing the new organization
257(2)
Nobody has seen a corporation!
259(1)
The company and the market: two phenomena, or two perspectives on the same phenomenon?
260(5)
Paradoxes of organizations
265(2)
The human ratio: internal and external `employees'
267(1)
From delimited structures to boundaryless processes
268(4)
Our need for security
272(3)
Synthesis 1: from exclusive hierarchies to inclusive networks and processes
275(3)
Synthesis 2: from partial to complete marketing equilibrium
278(3)
The genesis of RM and CRM
281(26)
Theoretical contributions to RM
283(11)
Current RM and CRM literature: a comparison with the 30R approach
294(6)
Synthesis of theories and experiences to a more general marketing theory
300(7)
In conclusion -- RM and CRM provide a paradigm shift!
307(10)
A paradigm shift in marketing
309(2)
New concepts
311(1)
RM, CRM and the 4Ps
312(1)
The value society and the network society, modernism and post-modernism
313(1)
Epilogue: approaching the end of the book -- or the beginning?
314(3)
References 317(22)
Index 339

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