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A book
by A. Repiev

 

Marketing
Thinking

or
Clientomania

 

 

TOC,
Abstract & Preface
in English

 

 

The book is
available at
Amazon.com

 

 

Kotler and the kotleroids

 

By Alexander Repiev, Moscow, Russia

 

People use the word “guru” only
because “charlatan” is too long.

Peter Drucker

 

Paper in PDF format (15 pp.)

 

Table of Contents

Economist Kotler “kneweth” marketing

Who are Kotler’s clients?

Marketing is no economics!

Economic thinking vs. marketing thinking

No marketing creativity, please!

Irresponsibility to practice

Kotler’s logic

Fussiness and eclectics

Kotler’s delusions

Exchange

Value

Homo kotlerus

Needs

Scientification of non-knowledge (SONK)

“Utter honesty”

Proofs and rigor

Assumptions and validity domains

Kotler’s models

Mathematics and pseudomathematics

Pseudomarketing journals

Marketing or marketing management

Strategic planning

Kotler’s books

Definitions, classifications, schemes

Assessment of Kotler’s activities

Kotler and marketing education

Marketing teachers

If Kotler were a guru

Specter of Kotlerism

What’s next?

Kotler in Russia

References

1 – Maureen Bourassa, Peggy Cunningham, “Behind the Veil: Insights and Influences On Kotler’s Contributions to Marketing Thought”

2 – Stephen Brown, “Writing Marketing: The Clause That Refreshes

3 – Bruce W. Marcus, “Academia, Anachronism, And Distortion In Marketing Literature

4 Peter November , “Seven Reasons Why Marketing Practitioners Should Ignore Marketing Academic Research”, Australasian Marketing Journal, 2004

5 – John Dawes, “Marketing gurus and fads: approach with caution!

 

 

Paper in PDF format (15 pp.)

 

 

Other English-language articles by A. Repiev

A glimpse of Russia's advertising and marketing

Lunatics have taken over the asylum

The Augean stables of academic marketing

The Soap Bubble of "22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" – Review

"Physics envy" – physics abysmally misconstrued!

 

A delusion
does not
cease to be
a delusion
even if shared
by the majority.

L. Tolstoy

University
develops all
capabilities,
including
stupidity.

A. Chekhov

I prefer
the wisdom of
the unlearned
to the folly of
the loquacious.

 Cicero

 

alex@repiev.ru 
+7 499 194-5221