Undergraduate - UnitMKX4050 - Marketing theory

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Marketing
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2013 (On-campus split block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Srinivas Sridharan

Synopsis

Theory in marketing covers three broad levels; consumer, firm, and society. It also incorporates a number of different schools of thought developed over various eras. This unit is designed to give you an integrative introduction to marketing theory that spans these levels of analysis and streams of thought. The unit will also provide an introduction to the tools of constructing theory, and equip students with theory-building skills to conduct scholarly research that will legitimately advance the boundaries of marketing knowledge.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

acquire basic historical understanding of the development of marketing theory
understand the major streams of thought in marketing and appreciate the differences in philosophy and method between these perspectives
be able to begin developing research ideas that make a theoretical contribution to existing literature
apply critical thinking in marketing theory to interpret and integrate disparate findings into a broader theoretical framework
apply marketing theory developments to practical marketing problems (most readily through the Honours thesis but more broadly if necessary).

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Srinivas Sridharan

Contact hours

3 hours per week