TMC Library: Business and Management: St John's

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Need to find a book? Below are the class numbers for the marketing books in our libraries. The main collections are held at Openshaw HE and St Johns. If you are unsure where to find a particular title ask a librarian or check on the library catalogue.

Number	Subject
658.8	Marketing
658.827	Brand management
658.83	Market research
658.834	Consumer behaviour

Library Catalogue

Useful E-Books

The new rules of marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott
This practical guide is written for marketing professionals, PR professionals, and entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses and create success. Learn how companies, nonprofits, and organizations of all sizes can leverage web–based content to get timely, relevant information to eager, responsive buyers for a fraction of the cost of big–budget campaigns.
Corporate reputation: brand and communication by Stuart Roper & Chris Fill
Why should and how can organisations manage their reputations? All organisations, the executives who direct them, the employees who create value and their stakeholders who influence them, all interact and can impact corporate reputation.
The new strategic brand management: advanced insights and strategic thinking by J N Kapferer
The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy, but also has become synonymous with the topic itself.
Essentials of Marketing by Frances Brassington
Like Brassington’s Principles of Marketing, this ‘essentials’ text brings together theory and practice. It covers a wide range of applications, industries and markets, exploring the way marketers must respond to those situations that demand an innovative response.
Global marketing by Svend Hollensen
All good marketing is local. Global companies know this and are going "glocal".There is also a trend towards the ‘Internet of Everything’, which revolutionizes the whole marketing discipline. Svend Hollensen has captured all the latest trends very well with the new cases in his seventh edition of Global Marketing.
Essentials of marketing communications by Chris Fill
Essentials of Marketing Communications offers a concise and student-friendly introduction to the principles and theories of marketing communications. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book provides you with a coherent and consistent text, blending marketing communications principles and theory with practice.
Brand and Talent by Kevin Keohane
In Brand and Talent, author Kevin Keohane looks at how organizations can better communicate with people before, during and after their association with the enterprise. He presents a "joined up" approach that encompasses the needs of brand, marketing, human resources, corporate communications, internal communications and IT. He integrates academic and commercial evidence, as well as practical advice and includes case studies and interviews.
Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases by Gerry Johnson
With over one million copies sold worldwide, Exploring Strategy has long been the essential strategy text for managers of today and tomorrow. From entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals, charities to government agencies, this book raises the big questions about organisations- how they grow, how they innovate and how they change.
Digital business and E-Commerce management by Dave Chaffey
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of e-business and e-commerce management. The author, Dave Chaffey, brings his trademarks of authority, clarity of expression and teaching expertise to bear on a subject in which he actively lectures and consults.
Marketing communications; integrating offline and online with social media by PR Smith & Ze Zook
The fifth edition of this best-selling text has been significantly updated to include the new communication tools now available to marketing professionals. Heralding the emergence of social media as a marketing revolution, the book integrates offline tools with online tools and, of course, social media.
Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler
The authors of this new European Edition have aimed to create more value for the reader by building on a classic marketing text with its well-established customer-value framework and complimenting it with an emphasis throughout the book on sustainable marketing, measuring and managing return on marketing, marketing technologies and marketing around the world.
Strategic information management : Challenges and strategies in managing Information systems by Robert Galliers
This book provides a rich source of material reflecting recent thinking on the key issues facing executives in information systems strategic management. It draws from a wide range of contemporary articles written by leading experts.
Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning by Graham Hooley
Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning 5e deals with the process of developing and implementing a marketing strategy. The book focuses on competitive positioning at the heart of marketing strategy and includes in-depth discussion of the processes used in marketing to achieve competitive advantage.
Developing management skills by David A Whetten
Skills Development for Tomorrows managers In its Ninth Edition, Developing Management Skills has become the standard in hands-on management learning. Designed for students of all skill levels and learning styles, the text allows students to apply knowledge to real-world situations, connect concepts to their own lives, and experience management theory in a tactile and engaging way.
Management and organisational behaviour by Laurie J Mullins
The essential introduction to management and organisational behaviour - over half a million students worldwide have used Management and Organisational Behaviour to help them learn. Written in an engaging style and packed with contemporary references to management research and practice, this book continues to be the Organisational Behaviour text of choice for today's students.
Essentials of marketing communications by Jim Blythe
Essentials of Marketing Communications 3rd edition gives students a concise overview of the strategic and tactical decision-making processes involved in marketing communications. It also links the current theories of marketing communications to consumer behaviour issues as well as explaining how marketing communications works in the real world.

Useful Books

Marketing research : an applied approach by Naresh K. Malhotra
This fourth edition addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by the marketing research profession from digital and social media developments. It illustrates how researchers are changing existing research techniques and developing new techniques. Detailed insight into these issues has been supported with the addition of a new co-author, Peter Wills.
Marketing by Paul Baines & Chris Fill
This book brings together the best of traditional and contemporary marketing theory and practice in a way that enables both students and managers to understand and implement the key concepts. The strong evidence-based approach provides practical examples and support material, which makes this a must-read book. - Dr Deborah Roberts, Nottingham University Business School.
Managing marketing by Roger Palmer, Juanita Cockton & Graham Cooper
This book is designed to give clear guidance in managing the marketing function as a practical entity and allowing the new marketer to grasp how the theory can be applied to the job.Written by practitioners who are also active in the marketing education and training sectors it gives the reader a clear overview of: how the key areas of marketing knowledge can be made operationally effective.
Digital marketing by Dave Chaffey & Fiona Ellis-Chadwick
Now in its sixth edition, Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice provides comprehensive, practical guidance on how companies can get the most out of digital media and technology to meet their marketing goals. Digital Marketing links marketing theory with practical business experience through case studies and interviews from cutting edge companies.
The practice of market research: an Introduction by Yvonne McGivern
The Practice of Market Research offers a comprehensive and understandable account of the techniques and practical tasks involved in setting up and running marketing or social research projects.
Managing Change by Bernard Burnes
This text provides management students and practising managers with an understanding of, and a guide to, managing the complexities of organizational change effectively. It discusses the techniques and methods that can be used to aid such change.
Introducing Human Resource Management by Margaret Foot; Caroline Hook
This is an accessible and lively introduction to the human resource management, focusing on the frameworks of people management strategies, and covering the basic operational areas and practices of HRM.
Understanding employment relations by Tony Dundon; Derek Rollinson
A resource for students who need to gain a thorough understanding of contemporary issues and the practical skills needed for the workplace. It guides readers through the multitude of factors - economic, social, psychological and legal - that shape contemporary employment relations and management.
Management by David Boddy
David Boddy's market leading text is the one guide today's students and tomorrow's managers need to read. A comprehensive introduction to the themes and functions of management, this book is an accessible and academically rigorous guide through the field.
Management theory and practice by Gerald A Cole; Phil Kelly
This new edition brings an increased focus on real world examples of management in practice with the introduction of vignettes. Skills sheets and a running case study are also new features, which will help students put what they have learned into practice.
The business environment by Adrian Palmer; Bob Hartley
This fully updated new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the varying factors that make up the business environment, with a particular focus on how these factors impact business organisations and the decisions organisations make.
Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice by Michael Armstrong
Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management is the classic text for all students and practitioners of HRM. Providing a complete resource for understanding and implementing HR in relation to the needs of the business as a whole, it includes in-depth coverage of all the key areas essential to the HR function.
Management and Organisation by Stephen Linstead; Liz Fulop; Simon Lilley
This comprehensive textbook reveals the fascinating complexity of management studies and takes an engaging critical approach designed to help students challenge the preconceptions of the discipline. As managers, students will need to think independently in response to a broad range of scenarios.
Business Ethics by Andrew Crane; Dirk Matten
Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders.
Management and Organisational Behaviour by Lourie J. Mullins
Presenting a managerial approach to the study of organisational behaviour, with an emphasis on improving working performance through a better understanding of human resources, this book contains summaries, review questions, and assignments.
Business studies by Dave Hall; Rob Jones; Carlo Raffo; Alain Anderton
Extensively revised to meet the latest exam criteria, this text provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of business studies, including over 500 questions and answers to test the candidate's knowledge of key issues.

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ACAS
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
ACAS aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations.
Chartered Institute of Marketing
Developing and supporting marketers, teams, leaders and the profession as a whole.
Department for Business Innovation & Skills
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is the department for economic growth.
Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of The Economist Group and the world leader in global business intelligence
International Monetory Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation and reduce poverty around the world.
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