European business review : Volume 19, Number 6: Assessing and building upon Wroe Alderson's intellectual legacy

In the editorial introduction to this e-book, Stanley J. Shapiro opens with the statement that Wroe Alderson was unquestionably the most influential marketing thinker of the mid-twentieth century. However, with the decline of Ph.D. seminars in the history of marketing thought and the development of marketing theory, fewer young academics have heard of Alderson let alone read his work. This publication, it is hoped and expected, will mark the beginning of renewed 21st century interest in the nature, the scope and the magnitude of Wroe Alderson's original contributions to marketing theory and th