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Societal Marketing In 2002 And Beyond

Societal Marketing In 2002 And Beyond
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About the Guest Editor G. Tomas M. Hult is Director of the International Business Center (e-mail: hult@msu.edu; www.globaledge.org) and Associate Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. His research focuses on knowledge management, marketing strategy, international business, and supply chain management. In addition to JBIM, his research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. Organizational learning and industrial marketing: an introduction to the special issue This special issue of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing focuses on the increasingly important but understudied area of organizational learning as it pertains to industrial marketing. The all-invited issue brings together a set of outstanding authors known for their work on the topic. Their articles are positioned to help managers implement learning-based programs in industrial marketing processes. Additionally, the articles provide cutting edge insights on a variety of learning issues that should advance the scholarly field of market-focused learning. Since Wes Johnston (Editor, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing) encouraged me to include one of my own articles in the special issue, I decided to keep this introduction short. A lot of my ‘‘scholarly learning’’ over the last decade can be found in the article I co-authored with Dave Ketchen and Stan Slater (see last article in this issue). Other articles I am particularly fond of are Hult (1998), Hult et al. (2000), Hult and Ketchen (2001), Hult, Ketchen and Nichols (2001), and Hurley and Hult (1998); all of those references can be found in the last article in this issue. In this special issue, the series of five articles address the area of organizational learning, but does so from rather different angles. As such, I think the special issue will appeal to a broad variety of marketing scholars interested in organizational learning, knowledge management, industrial marketing, and marketing strategy. In the first article in the special issue, Day expands and extends his notions on ‘‘market sensing’’ which he has presented earlier in a stream of seminal works. In the second article, Sinkula presents a conceptualization centered on ‘‘unlearning’’. In the third article, Hurley focuses on ‘‘people as the main agents of organizational learning’’. In the fourth article, Mohr and Sengupta examine ‘‘inter-firm learning’’. In the last article, together with Ketchen and Slater, I examine longitudinal performance effects of the ‘‘learning climate’’. Finally, I want to recognize the reviewers who provided valuable input to the authors in the process of preparing their articles for publication. Since this issue of JBIM is a collection of all-invited articles, I decided to make the review process ‘‘open’’ instead of following the standard double blind process. That way, both the authors and reviewers had the opportunity to communicate directly with each other after the initial reviews had been provided through me as the intermediary. In all, I believe this form of peer-reviewed approach was beneficial for this particular special issue. Also important, all reviewers have extensive knowledge of the organizational learning literature. As for the reviewing, I served as the sole reviewer for Day’s article. Stanley F. Slater and Bryan A. Lukas reviewed Sinkula’s article. James M. Sinkula and Simon Bell reviewed Hurley’s article. David J. Ketchen, Jr and Daniel J. Flint reviewed Mohr and Sengupta’s article. Our article (Hult, Ketchen, and Slater) was reviewed in-house by S. Tamer Cavusgil and Destan Kandemir (a PhD student working with me in the area of marketing-focused knowledge management). I hope you enjoy the issue!

G. Tomas M. Hult

Previously published in: Journal of BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING, Volume 17, Number 4, 2002

Emerald Group Publishing Limited; January 2002
244 pages; ISBN 9781845446192
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