@article{1467726, recid = {1467726}, author = {Adeola, Ogechi, and Hinson, Robert and Sakkthivel, A. M.}, title = {Marketing communications and brand development in emerging markets., Volume II,: Insights for a changing world /}, pages = {1 online resource (xix, 312 pages) :}, note = {Includes index.}, abstract = {This book provides critical insights into marketing communications and brand development in a business landscape transformed by an evolving digital environment, increasing industrialisation with associated environmental hazards, and the global Covid-19 pandemic. Organisations that strategically align with these realities are positioned to communicate their offerings effectively. Volume I of the book explored contemporary issues in marketing communications and brand development, offering a futuristic perspective. Volume II responds to these changing market dynamics by focusing on three themes: Marketing Communications and Technology, Covid-19, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Practices. Technology offers organisations an avenue for adaptive marketing communications that effectively align their goals with consumers' needs and expectations. Covid-19 continues to pose significant social and economic challenges to product and service distribution and brand development strategies. CSR and sustainability initiatives are needed to reassure public confidence in corporate efforts to fight environmental hazards. Contributors to Volume II offer researchers and practitioners contemporary marketing communications and brand development strategies needed to prepare for the challenges posed by a continuously changing world.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1467726}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95581-6}, }