Books in the Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research series

Taste, Consumption and Markets offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of taste, with an emphasis on how taste shapes boundaries, subcultures, and global culture, complemented by an introduction that provides a scaffold for the reader and a concluding section that reflects on the past, present, and future of research on taste. It sho

This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the intersection of consumption, markets, and culture. In societies shaped by the globalizing neo-liberal economic order, increasing wealth disparity, and a partially digitized social environment that they help to co-construct

This innovative collection focusses on the experiential and hedonic aspects of food and the sociocultural, economic, ideological, and symbolic factors that influence how pleasure can contribute to consumer health, food education, and individual and societal wellbeing.

Examining consumption, this book focuses on concepts of autonomy and rationality. It adopts a moderating perspective, reviewing and critiquing attacks on these concepts in order to work towards a more refined view of the consumer.

Investigates the constructions and reconstructions of discourse that surround the uses of interactivity in contemporary advertising, public relations, and 'guerrilla marketing'. This book offers a fresh theory of marketing communication based upon approaching persuasion as a dynamic, endless negotiation between distinction-making systems.

Offers a critical survey of important contributions to managerial marketing discourse from the earliest twentieth century onwards, covering traditions of research such as scientific selling, marketing management and service marketing and drawing from Michel Foucault's understanding of power and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's Discourse Theory.

Analyzes the nature and role of interpretation in social interactions, decision making in social science enquires and consumer marketing, in the use of statistics and causal analysis, in consumer evaluations of products and in interpreting problematic situations along side biases arising from the emotions.

Based on a conceptual analysis of marketing texts and a case study of a service firm that utilizes innovative approaches to managing organizations, this book presents a critical examination of marketing as a managerial practice.

Presents a structured approach to consumer research, showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours.

Incorporating case studies from the US, Europe and the UK, this book provides a guide to the visual consumption processes necessary for understanding and succeeding in today's market.

This book draws on a wide range of recent European and North American studies in critical, ethnographic and interpretative traditions of marketing. It highlights the influence of social construction on the study of marketing.

Why do consumers buy particular products, brands and services? How do they think and feel about their cravings? This book provides provocative answers to all these questions. Formerly only available in Hardback.

This book provides a holistic and systemic approach to both studying and solving wicked problems. Within the chapters of this book, macro-social marketing approaches to analysing and defining wicked problems, to identifying stakeholders and potential ripple effects, and implementing macro-level change are presented.

This innovative collection focusses on the experiential and hedonic aspects of food and the sociocultural, economic, ideological, and symbolic factors that influence how pleasure can contribute to consumer health, food education, and individual and societal wellbeing.

The public demand for celebrity culture has become so pervasive that it is an essential element of our everyday culture and market economy. This book explores the widespread phenomenon of celebrity fandom and provides a deeper understanding of why individual consumers develop an emotional attachment to their favourite celebrity. Based on an in-depth insider study of a consumer¿s obsession with an actress, the book provides unique insights into the celebrity fan relationship and its meaning for the consumer in everyday life. While this book is primarily located in consumer research, it will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience from marketing, consumer behaviour, film studies, media studies and sociology.

Revealing food consumption through both material and symbolic aspects, and the role that marketplace institutions, discourses and places play in shaping, perpetuating or transforming them, this holistic book reveals how consumer practices of 'the meal', and the attendant meaning making processes which surround them, are shaped.

Contemporary consumer society is increasingly saturated by digital technology and digital communication. The devices which deliver this has made significant transformations in consumption patterns. This volume will explore the digitization of consumption through a number of empirical studies which analyses the impact of digital devices, especially in terms of gender, ethics and power relations. Digitalizing Consumption makes an important contribution to practice-based approaches to consumption, and particularly the use of market devices in consumers¿ everyday consumer life, and will be of interest to scholars of marketing, cultural studies, consumer research, organization and management.

This edited collection brings together a range of international studies to explore the role of markets and consumption in the making of mothers. Combining personal accounts from many mothers with different theoretical perspectives, this book examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what mothers are, what they should care about and how they should behave.

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.

Organised into four sections covering: The Death Industry; Death Rituals and Consumption; Death and the Body and Critiques of the Death-Consumption Link, Death in Consumer Culture presents the broadest array of research on the topic of death and consumer behaviour across disciplinary boundaries. Offering a richly unique anthology on this challenging topic, this book will be of interest to researchers working at the intersection consumer culture, marketing and mortality.

Jonathan Schroeder brings together a curated selection of papers on brands and branding, originally published in the interdisciplinary journal Consumption Markets and Culture. Organised into four perspectives - cultural, corporate, consumer, and critical ¿ each section contextualised by a new introduction from leading brand scholars. This thought-provoking collection will be of interest to scholars of marketing, consumer behaviour, and sociology and anyone interested in the role brands play in our lives and culture.