Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy

David L. Mothersbaugh, Ph.D., is Professor and Robert C. Morrow Faculty Fellow at The University of Alabama, where he has served as a faculty member or administrator for 24 years.  David 's teaching and research are in the areas of consumer behavior, advertising, services marketing, and marketing strategy.  David has published some 25 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings, has won a number of research excellence awards, and has served on 17 dissertation committees. His teaching has earned him numerous awards at the undergraduate and executive education level.  He is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate and International Programs at the Culverhouse College of Business where he oversees the development and deployment of various student engagement and success initiatives focusing on high-impact practices.  David's prior administrative roles at UA have also involved student-focused program development and include Marketing Department Head, Acting Director of Global Business, and Founding Director of the UA Services Marketing Program.

Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy builds on theory to provide students with a usable, strategic understanding of consumer behavior that acknowledges recent changes in internal and external influences, global marketing environments, and the discipline overall. Updated with strategy-based examples from an author team with a deep understanding of each principle's business applications, current and classic examples of both text and visual advertisements throughout the text will serve to engage students and bring the material to life. The 13th edition of Mothersbaugh/Hawkins is tech-forward in both format and content, featuring the addition of Connect's robust digital suite, including SmartBook and other assignable interactives to help students learn, apply, and expand upon core marketing concepts and make assignment management and outcomes-based reporting easy.

Part I - Introduction