1st Edition

Marketing Performativity Theories, practices and devices

Edited By Katy Mason, Hans Kjellberg, Johan Hagberg Copyright 2017
    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    Marketing Performativity: Theories, practices and devices addresses concerns about the theory-practice gap so often discussed by marketing scholars, and indeed reframes this ‘gap’ by asking ‘how is marketing theory performative?’ How does marketing theory shape action? Who uses it in practice and to what effects? The individual contributions in this book look at how marketing theories are used in practice and what this means for our understanding of the practicing–theorising landscape of marketing.

    The book begins by considering what performativity is and how this concept is used in the marketing literature. It then considers three themes concerning the performativity of marketing that emerge from the contributions, before presenting ten empirical studies that ask how, why, and to what effect marketing theories are used and ‘performed’ in marketing practice. The book also summarises the implications of three themes and sketches research areas for further developing our understanding of the performativity of marketing. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

    Introduction – Exploring the performativity of marketing: theories, practices and devices Katy Mason, Hans Kjellberg and Johan Hagberg

    1. Epistemologies in the wild: local knowledge and the notion of performativity Johan Nilsson and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson

    2. ‘Is there a gap in the market, and is there a market in the gap?’ How advertising planning performs markets Erik S. Jacobi, James Freund and Luis Araujo

    3. Performing market segmentation: a performative perspective Peet Venter, Alex Wright and Sally Dibb

    4. Brand transformation: a performative approach to brand regeneration Andrea Lucarelli and Anette Hallin

    5. The dividualised consumer: sketching the new mask of the consumer Robert Cluley and Stephen D. Brown

    6. Myriam’s ‘adverteasing’: on the performative power of marketing promises Franck Cochoy

    7. Exploring the brand’s world-as-assemblage: the brand as a market shaping device Winfred Ikiring Onyas and Annmarie Ryan

    8. The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device John Finch, Conor Horan and Emma Reid

    9. ‘Elephants can’t gallop’: performativity, knowledge and power in the market for lay-investing Philip Roscoe

    10. Construction of silence on issues of sustainability through branding in the fashion market Cecilia Solér, Julia Baeza and Camilla Svärd

    Biography

    Katy Mason is Professor of Markets, Marketing and Management at Lancaster University, UK.

    Hans Kjellberg is Professor of Marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

    Johan Hagberg is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.