Diversity in European Marketing Text and Cases
Given its unique heritage and diversity, Europe deserves and requires distinct marketing attention. This book offers a non-traditional perspective to European marketing by addressing up-to-date issues and challenges for marketers through short cases and r
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Thomas Rudolph • Bodo B. Schlegelmilch Josep Franch • András Bauer • Jan Niklas Meise (Eds.)
Diversity in European Marketing Text and Cases
Editors Thomas Rudolph University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Bodo B. Schlegelmilch WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
András Bauer Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary Jan Niklas Meise University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Josep Franch ESADE Business School Barcelona, Spain
ISBN 978-3-8349-1420-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-8349-6976-7
ISBN 978-3-8349-6976-7 (eBook)
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Preface Europe has always been diverse, and it is becoming more so. One of the founding principles of the European Union is respect for its diversity. For marketers, this marks a challenge of marketing goods and services in Europe. This is hardly surprising when one considers that the EU is comprised of currently 27 member countries, over 500 million people, an
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