Many practitioners believe that marketing practice should be viewed as a profession. Similarly, many marketing academics argue that marketing should be taught and researched as a professional discipline. This article develops a “responsibilities framework” that can be used to explore how marketing should be defined if it is to be viewed as a profession.
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