著者

A. Fuat FIRAT

出版者

Marketing History Society of Japan

雑誌

マーケティング史研究 (ISSN:24368342)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, no.1, pp.48-53, 2022-03-31 (Released:2022-03-31)

参考文献数

35

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In this paper, a contradiction that has developed between the key economic institution of modernity, the market, and its institutionalized practices, marketing, is explored. This paper makes observations beyond earlier discussions of this contradiction based on the history of perspectival developments in the orientations of the discipline and in marketing practices. Specifically, separation of marketing practice from consumers resulting in its conceptualization as a provisional set of activities, and the turn from a focus on needs to a focus on exchange resulting in an emphasis on the health of the market rather than on the health of the people are articulated. It is observed that these developments in marketing orientations signal a reversal of ends and means. It is argued that the modern market, its growth and prosperity, which was originally conceptualized as a means, as one institution to serve humanity's needs, is now an end, and that human beings are now in the service of the economic goals of the market. Based on these observations, the paper proposes that to develop solutions for the problems arising from the historical growth of the marketing discipline and practices in modernity, a new perspective needs to be adopted, one that conceptualizes marketing as cultural practices embedded in communities and involving consumers and organizations as partners in being mutually involved in the construction and fulfillment of human desires.

著者

Philip KOTLER

出版者

Marketing History Society of Japan

雑誌

マーケティング史研究 (ISSN:24368342)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, no.1, pp.8-10, 2022-03-31 (Released:2022-03-31)

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Soon we will see the launch of a new Japanese Marketing History Journal. This is greatly anticipated and overdue. Japan has such a long history of commerce and innovation. Some of the oldest lasting companies in the world are found in Japan. During my 1970 speaking engagements in Japan, I was dazzled to see the fine Japanese domestic and export products. I would buy some products - cameras, watches - and bring them back to the U.S. to the astonishment of my friends and family. In the 1980s, I was captivated by Japan's superior brands in cameras, electronics, watches, automobiles, motorcycles, and many other products. Two of us ended up publishing, “The World's Champion Marketers: The Japanese,” in the 1982 Journal of Business Strategy. We owe to Japan such business concepts as zero defects, kaizen, just-in-time manufacturing, and others. The new journal will give its readers a deep historical perspective on Japan's fascinating marketing history.