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The Butterfly Effect in Competitive Markets

Driving Small Changes for Large Differences

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Analyzing Market Chaos

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Chaos in Markets

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 3-29
    3. Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 30-65
    4. Managing Market Shifts

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 66-91
  3. Building Global-Local Marketing Effects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. Market Trend Analysis

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 95-118
    3. Consumer Value Management

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 119-143
    4. Darwinism in the Marketplace

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 144-166
    5. Business Growth and Local Effects

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 167-193
    6. Sustainable Marketing

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 194-219
  4. Unveiling Future Effects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
    2. Social Psychology of Consumers

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 223-247
    3. Challenges of the Butterfly Effect

      • Rajagopal
      Pages 248-268
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-295

About this book

This book provides an introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business management. It covers many elements of the entrepreneurial management discipline including choosing a business, organizing, financing, marketing, developing an offering that the market will value, and growing the business in all its dimensions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • EGADE Business School, ITESM Mexico City, USA

    Rajagopal

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Rajagopal

About the author

Dr. Rajagopal is Professor of Marketing at EGADE Business School of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico City Campus, and Fellow of the Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, London, UK. He is also Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and the Institute of Operations Management, UK. He has been listed in various international directories including Who's Who in the World since 2008, and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. Dr. Rajagopal holds postgraduate and doctoral degrees in Economics and Marketing respectively from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University. He specializes in the fields of marketing management, rural economic linkages, and development economics. He has to his credit 40 books on marketing management and rural development themes and over 400 research contributions that include research papers in national and international refereed journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing, International Journal of Business Competition and Growth, and International Journal of Built Environment and Asset Management. He has imparted training to senior executives and has conducted 55 management development programs. His research contributions have been conferred the highest recognition of National Researcher -SNI-level III by the Government of Mexico.

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