Advanced Marketing Management

This subject is not offered in 2014.

144 hours per semester, including self directed study/research.

Admission into MC-COMMG, MC-COMMK or BH-COM

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This subject expands students’ knowledge of contemporary issues and practices in marketing. It includes topics such as value, co-creation, sustainable branding, avatar marketing, cause marketing, social media engagement, crisis management, user contribution systems, service-profit chain, customer citizenship behaviour, customer misbehaviour and consumer privacy.

On successful completion of this subject a student should be able to:
• Analyse and explain a broad range of contemporary issues, practices, models and phenomena in marketing.
• Evaluate and critique contemporary marketing practices and understand the best methods of implementation to maximize business performance.
• Analyse the potential impact of contemporary marketing practices on the well being of stakeholders and society.
• Present, analyse, discuss, evaluate, persuade, debate, decide and execute marketing initiatives within an organisation.

• A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (50%)
• Weekly class participation (20%)
• An individual assignment totalling not more than 3000 words due two weeks following the topic allocation (30%)

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• High level of development: oral and written communication; interpretation and analysis; critical thinking; synthesis of data and other information; evaluation of data and other information; receptiveness to alternative ideas.
• Moderate level of development: written communication; collaborative learning; problem solving; team work; statistical reasoning; application of theory to practice; accessing data and other information from a range of sources.