The theoretical heritage of marketing management: a retrospective analysis

Abstract

The paper presents scientific views reflecting marketing management specifics which explains the timely character of the study. The argumentative logics has been used to verify the hypothesis about the impossibility to substantiate promising lines of marketing management research without identifying blanc spots in the scientific basis of respective area of expertise. Systemic chronological and retrospective analysis of the theoretical works was employed in order to achieve the results. The findings give a detailed explication of the scientific landscape which reflects the viewpoints of marketing management issues. The main conclusion is that the thesis of the «ideal marketing management» concept which allows for the requirements of all contemporary marketing systems participants to be fully met as of today, has a fragmentary character. The findings can be employed in further theoretical research in marketing and other fields of knowledge.