Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students majoring in business administration and in other fields of social sciences,
Qualitative Marketing Research unpacks the emerging cultural approach in the field of marketing and consumer research and provides an interesting and informed study for anyone interested in cultural approaches to economic and social theory.
The book also provides insights for MBA students and other business professionals who work in the field of marketing, advertising, media planning and qualitative market research, offering methodological resources for keeping professional skills up to date and help with designing and conducting relevant and skillful market research which is sensitive to the cultural dynamics of the marketplace behaviour.
Innehållsförteckning
PART ONE: CULTURAL APPROACH TO MARKETS AND METHODS
PART ONE: CULTURAL APPROACH TO MARKETS AND METHODS
`Cultural Turn′ in Marketing and Consumer Research
Evaluating Cultural Research
PART TWO: CULTURAL DATA AND METHODS
Ethnographies
Cultural Texts and Talk
Visual Materials and Methods
PART THREE: ANALYSIS IN CULTURAL RESEARCH
Interpretation and Interpretive Frameworks
Analysis in Practice
Criteria for Good Cultural Analysis
PART FOUR: WRITING CULTURAL RESEARCH
Writing in Cultural Research
Writing up Cultural Research
PART FIVE: DEFENDING YOUR RESEARCH REPORT
Theoretical Legacies and Philosophical Questions
Om författaren
I received my Ph.D. from the Aalto University School of Economics in 2004. Since 2005, I have acted as a marketing professor at the University of Lapland. Moreover, I have 10 years of business experience within creative knowledge industries.
My research interests center, firstly, on cultural and critical approaches to consumption, marketing and tourism. Drawing upon practice-based approaches, anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies and semiotics, I have explored topics such as body and gender, service work, knowing, sensing, and weather. Secondly, my research interests center on the development of qualitative research methodologies (ethnographies, focus groups, interviews, projective techniques, narratives).
My most recent research project investigates sleep as a social practice in the context of tourism, consumer culture and media-intensive economy. The other recent project is concerned with the role of all the senses in the meaning-making processes of consumer culture and business organizations, moving thereby beyond the visual gaze.