Preface to Marketing Management, 15e, by Peter and Donnelly, is praised in the market for its clear and concise presentation of the basic principles of marketing in such a way that the core concepts and ideas are covered in sufficient depth to ensure understanding. By offering an engaging, clear, and conceptually sound text, this book has been able to maintain its position as a leading marketing management text. The fifteenth edition serves as an overview for critical issues in marketing management. Its brief, inexpensive, paperback format makes it a perfect fit for instructors who assign cases, readings, simulations or offer modules on marketing management for MBA students. The text also works in courses that implement a cross-functional curriculum where the students are required to purchase several texts.

Preface to Marketing Management can be used in a wide variety of settings. Integrating E-commerce topics throughout, as well as analyses of proven teamwork techniques and strategies, this flexible and concise book provides the reader with the foundations of marketing management while allowing room for the instructor to use outside readings, Web research, and other resources to build knowledge.

Overview: Basic Marketing 18e builds on the foundation pillars of previous editions – the four Ps framework, managerial orientation, and strategy planning focus. The Perreault franchise was the pioneer of the “four Ps” in the introductory marketing course. The unifying focus of Basic Marketing has always been on how to make the marketing decisions that a manager must make in deciding what customers to focus on and how best to meet their needs. Over many editions there has been constant change in marketing management and the marketing environment. Some of the changes have been dramatic, and others have been subtle. As a result, the authors have made ongoing changes to the text to reflect marketing’s best practices and ideas. Throughout all of these changes, Basic Marketing and the supporting materials that accompany it have been more widely used than any other teaching materials for introductory marketing. Consistent with our belief in continuous quality improvement, this edition has been critically revised, updated, and rewritten to reflect new concepts, new examples, and recent “best practices.” This edition extends the strategy planning approach, integrating concepts tightly with the marketing strategy planning model.