This unique book focuses upon service design, including retail and multi-channel marketing matters pertinent to the current age where physical contact with consumers has resurfaced as an enduring part of the marketing and branding landscape - complementary to online and virtual worlds

Ethics in marketing: sea change or Potemkin village?While marketers might define marketing ethics as something like "moral principlesgoverning right and wrong behaviour in marketing", increasingly cynical consumersmight well claim that the expression is actually an oxymoron. For example,...

"Brands - corporate, products, service- today are collectively defined by their customers, , deriving from personal experiences and word-of-mouth. This book acts as a forum for examining current and future trends in corporate branding, identity, image and reputation. The book provides scholars,...

"Place branding as a field of research is still in a state of infancy. This book seeks to address this, offering a theory of place branding based on the tourist experience, keeping in mind the roles of stakeholders, both public and private organisations and DMOs in managing the place brand....

Recently, many researchers have found that their work crosses the borders of design, branding and marketing. This orientation finds itself in contrast to the generally discipline-delineated world of academic journal publishing where cross-sector studies often find difficulties in acceptance...

This study shows how experiential product attributes that are part of the design of new products can create compelling consumer experiences. Following processing-fluency theory, when consumers attend to experiential attributes (sensory or affective), they should process them fluently (i.e.,...