Books in the Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing series

New Insights on Trust in Business-to-Business Relationships provides readers with advanced original insights on trust antecedents, processes and consequences within the B2B marketing context and offers practical tools alongside suggestions for future research.

Volume 23B includes two chapters covering problems and implementations of solutions in e-services adoption processes in developing nations. These are exciting and useful chapters for executives and researchers seeking knowledge and theory of how to influence e-service adoptions in developing nations!

Chapter 1 examines the relationships between absorptive capacity and effective knowledge management through the analysis of quantitative data drawn from managers and employees in residential aged care organizations in Western Australia. Chapter 2 provides an application of system dynamics modelling in firms in the poultry industry in Bangladesh.

Where do brilliant executive wisdom and actions come from? Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly (MTDWB) assesses the literature that examines executives' conscious and non-conscious actions in decision making, implementation and assessment of outcomes.

This book recognizes the uniqueness of the moment; the number of new users of e-services will double during 2015-2018 (moving from 2 billion users mostly from developed nations to an additional 2 billion mostly from developing nations). This radical embrace of new e-service technologies will improve the quality of lives for residents globally.

This new volume is a must for B2B scholars and executives. This volume is for readers who demand findings and modeling at the individual case level that are readily transferable and adaptable for alternative contexts.

The common thread of the five papers in this volume is that making sense and achieving deep knowledge of three-plus B2B relationships are necessary antecedents for achieving high operating effectiveness, high (on-time) efficiency, and sustaining profits for each firm in these relationships.

Focuses on sensemaking, decisions, actions, and evaluating outcomes relating to managing business-to-business brands including product and service brands. This book features chapters that address aspects of the marketing mix for business-to-business and industrial marketers. It includes papers that provide brand management insights for managers.

Provides in-depth understanding about business-to-business (B2B) and organizational relationships. This title includes descriptions on how B2B networks form, function and develop and is for readers who want to delve into how B2B relationships actually work and, frequently, do not work.

This volume presents a collection of papers written by senior marketing scholars based on their presentations upon receiving the "Society for Marketing Advances Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award".

Most universities do not teach meta-thinking so it is logical that company thinkers may not really understand how to think and decide upon important issues. This volume explores how such thinking can be employed to improve the thinking of those who are responsible for core performance.

Aims to help increase knowledge, skills and insights into making effective decisions in the 'bigger hall' of marketing management. This book covers setting strategic direction; product and customer portfolio analysis; product development; advertising; pricing; channel management; environmental scanning; and measuring strengths and weaknesses.

Intended for marketing executives, new product/service managers, and marketing research professionals, this work focuses on design and market testing issues/solutions for new business-to-business products and services. It includes more than 50 diagrams, tables and figures which support the text.

Includes 16 contributions that fill the mind with knowledge, skills, and insights useful for improving the executive's ability to do what needs to be done, such as: scan environments better to find the weak signals on breakthrough technologies; shifts in customers' attitudes and behaviors; and, changes in behaviors of suppliers and governments.

Offers skill-building case exercises written to improve your sensemaking abilities. This book deals with the process of improving our sensemaking capabilities into how to: scan environments actively to gather data that is relevant to pressing issues; interpret usefully what we see; and evaluate well what we have done and what has occurred.

What does it take to craft and maintain successful radical NPD programs? This book explains why both manufacturing and customer firms usually reject new technologies and how competitors new to the industry become successful by focusing on unnoticed customers and offering higher performance with lower costs via the radically new technologies.