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This special commentary section proposes new directions in researching the nexus of ethnicity and well-being under three themes of (1) mobility and shifting identities in relation to place, (2) empowerment and identity performance in relation to the virtual space, and (3) religious conflicts in relation to markets and spaces of consumption. The three short essays in this collection are geared towards accelerating research on ethnicity in marketing and consumer behaviour. They problematize the very nature of ethnicity in relation to space and how ethnicity is performed in different spaces by looking at the issues of social relations, transformations and conflict. They suggest potential areas of enquiry, particularly for new (doctor of philosophy) research projects, policy-focused research grant applications, conferences/seminars/workshops and also classroom activities and teaching purposes.

ABSTRACTMediterranean marketing is an ideological approach to marketing grounded on a corpus of distinctive values characterizing the market orientation of companies located both within and beyond the Mediterranean basin. Among Mediterranean values, this study focuses on connectivity, a largely under‐researched construct in marketing. Through an in‐depth analysis of Prada's "Made in Worlds" branding strategy, we extend both conceptualization of and managerial guidance on marketing connectivity. In detail, we identify the following: (i) three principles guiding connectivity (spatial, temporal, and disciplinary connectivity); (ii) two levels of reification (product and retail level) that translate this strategy into practice; and (iii) two types of connectivity (institutionalized and deliberate connectivity) that differ in breadth and origin of strategy. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Culture pervades consumption and marketing in ways that many marketing managers fail to appreciate. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to marketing management through an interpretive cultural lens. In bringing culture to the fore, this edited textbook brings into consideration the historical, socio-cultural and political factors in analyzing local contexts and emphasizes the importance of culture in understanding the varying marketing phenomena. This book highlights the benefits managers can reap from applying interpretive cultural approaches to strategic marketing activities, including decisions about: market segmentation; product and brand positioning; research methods; globalization and consumer and organizational identity, amongst others. With contributions originating from the five continents and grounded in the authors' empirical work with companies such as General Motors, Camper, Prada, Mama Shelter, Kjaer Group, Hom, and the Twilight Community, this edited volume moves beyond the overly simplistic marketing models often uncritically presented in many texts. Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective will speak with great authority to serious marketing students, lecturers and managers across the world

(Market)places are spatial entities which individuals and groups might experience as meaningful. By highlighting the role of place in ethnic consumer research, this article argues that increased mobility and changing places render relatively stable notions of ethnicity outdated. We identify three main trajectories to revitalize future research on ethnicity. First, we demonstrate the need for research on ethnic identity to be underpinned by a better understanding of the role of place in identity processes. Second, we contend that the established migration/acculturation paradigm should be replaced by the mobility/adaptiveness paradigm. Third, we consider the profound effects of interethnic contact among mobile and immobile populations within shared places on individual and societal well-being.

In the popular imagination sex sells. Yet, marketing theory has relatively little to say about sexuality per se. Drawing on Žižek's metaphor of critical theory as 'short-circuiting' the dominant discourse, we conceptualise marketing as a field that theorises sexuality only in a series of 'closed circuits'. Knowledge becomes hierarchical when some topics, such as sexuality, are denied the theoretical freedom to roam in wider open circuits alongside other 'mainstream' marketing topics. We identify four ways in which certain topics are enclosed: theoretical, empirical, institutional and neo-colonial. We then seek to short-circuit this state of affairs by bringing together a heterogeneous group of scholars interested in sexuality. By crossing their critical insights like unexpected connections in a circuit, we create sparks of inspiration that challenge the contents, contexts and concepts that relate to marketing theories of sexuality. Our paper makes a specific theoretical contribution in arguing for sexuality to be treated as a phenomenon worth studying and theorising in its own right. However, it also makes a wider methodological and epistemological contribution in showing how various topics within marketing theory might be short-circuited to help flatten the hierarchies of knowledge created by closed and open circuits.