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Relationship Marketing In Fast Moving Consumer Goods Markets: The Consumers' Perspective, Rose Leahy
Relationship Marketing In Fast Moving Consumer Goods Markets: The Consumers' Perspective, Rose Leahy
Theses
Relationship marketing has been dominant in marketing literature since the 1990s. Despite this, however, the relationship marketing concept has not yet acquired uncontested meaning and application, and consequently its core philosophy remains ambiguous. In particular, there is a lack of relationship theory building and testing in mass consumer markets. It is within this context that this thesis is positioned. Adopting the relationship marketing and social psychology literatures as a framework, this study explores relationship marketing in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) markets from the consumers' perspective. Taking an interpretivist inductive approach, the study focuses on the applicability of relationship marketing …