Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (9 August 2024) © 2025

  • Graham Hooley Aston University
  • Nigel Piercy Warwick Business School
  • Brigitte Nicoulaud Aston Business School
  • John Rudd University of Warwick
  • Nick Lee University of Warwick

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Title overview

Understand, formulate and implement rigorous marketing strategies in today’s marketplace

An ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules in Marketing Strategy, Marketing Management and Strategic Marketing Management.

Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning, 8th Edition, by Hooley, Nicoulaud, Rudd and Lee, helps you develop an in-depth understanding of how to formulate and implement rigorous marketing strategies, and achieve sustainable competitive positioning.

This book focuses on competitive positioning and includes an in-depth discussion of the marketing processes to achieve competitive advantage in a business environment.

Following the key approach of focusing on two central issues – identifying target markets and creating differential advantage – the book aims to guide you through creating and sustaining superior performance in a competitive marketplace. In this process, it also recognises new target markets that have emerged over the years, increased concern for climate change and disruption from technological advances.

Table of contents

Part 1 Marketing Strategy

  1. Market-led Strategic Management
  2. Strategic Marketing Planning

Part 2 Competitive Market Analysis

  1. The Changing Market Environment
  2. Customer Analysis
  3. Competitor Analysis
  4. Understanding the Organisational Resource Base

Part 3 Identifying Current and Future Competitive Positions

  1. Segmentation and Positioning Principles
  2. Selecting Market Targets

Part 4 Competitive Positioning Strategies

  1. Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage
  2. Competing Through the New Marketing Mix
  3. Competing Through Innovation
  4. Competing Through Superior Service and Customer Relationships

Part 5 Implementing the Strategy

  1. Strategic Customer Management and The Strategic Sales Organisation
  2. Strategic Alliances and Networks
  3. Strategy Implementation and Internal Marketing
  4. Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics

Part 6 Conclusions

  1. Marketing in the Twenty-First Century

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