A Preface to Marketing Management

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A Preface to Marketing Management

Fourteenth Edition

J. Paul Peter University of Wisconsin–Madison

James H. Donnelly Jr. Gatton College of Business and

Economics University of Kentucky

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A PREFACE TO MARKETING MANAGEMENT, FOURTEENTH EDITION

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To Rose and Angie

J. Paul Peter

To Gayla

Jim Donnelly

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About the Authors

J. Paul Peter has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin since 1981. He was a member

of the faculty at Indiana State, Ohio State, and Washington University before joining the

Wisconsin faculty. While at Ohio State, he was named Outstanding Marketing Professor

by the students and has won the John R. Larson Teaching Award at Wisconsin. He has

taught a variety of courses including Marketing Management, Marketing Strategy, Con-

sumer Behavior, Marketing Research, and Marketing Theory, among others.

Professor Peter’s research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Retailing, and the Academy of Management Journal, among others. His article on construct validity won the prestigious William O’Dell Award from the Journal of Marketing Research, and he was a finalist for this award on two other occasions. Recently, he was the recipient of the Churchill

Award for Lifetime