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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the writing style of Stanley C. Hollander, in order to better understand the power of his prose.
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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the writing style of Stanley C. Hollander, in order to better understand the power of his prose.
Design/methodology/approach
A line‐by‐line literary analysis of Hollander's publications, with a view to detecting his stylistic “signature” or “fingerprint”.
Findings
Four key elements are integral to Hollander's writing style – interrogatives, inventories, iconoclasm and irony. His single most characteristic literary device is litotes, a mode of ironic understatement.
Research limitations/implications
Literary analysis is inherently idiosyncratic and tends to reflect the perspective of the interpreter. Another analyst is sure to find different features in Hollander's corpus (though this is less a methodological shortcoming than a testament to the richness of Hollander's writings).
Originality/value
All academics are writers and, by better understanding the technique of a much admired stylist, everyone's publications can be improved.
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D.G. Brian Jones, Eric H. Shaw and Deborah Goldring
The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of the Conferences on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) from their inception in 1983 through 2007 focusing on…
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of the Conferences on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) from their inception in 1983 through 2007 focusing on the influence of Stanley C. Hollander, who co‐founded the CHARM conference and whose drive and determination fueled its growth for the first 20 years.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses traditional historical narrative based on personal interviews, archival research, and content analysis of CHARM Proceedings.
Findings
The history of CHARM is described and Hollander's role in developing the conference is highlighted.
Originality/value
There is no written history of CHARM. This story is a major part of Hollander's legacy.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical review of Stanley C. Hollander's History of Labels.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical review of Stanley C. Hollander's History of Labels.
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Historical review essays summarize and evaluate older, historically significant books by situating them in historical perspective often using biographical details of the subject.
Findings
In History of Labels, Hollander shows us early in his career that he is a rigorous marketing historian, and a brilliant and entertaining writer. Anyone doing research in marketing history should include this book on their reading list.
Originality/value
In the context of this special issue celebrating Hollander's life and work, the subject of this review essay is one of his earliest historical works and has never been reviewed in this fashion.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the elements of the life of Professor Stanley C. Hollander (1919‐2004), a marketing scholar extraordinaire.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the elements of the life of Professor Stanley C. Hollander (1919‐2004), a marketing scholar extraordinaire.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 28 marketing scholars who had been students, colleagues, and friends of Professor Hollander were asked to contribute to the author's personal knowledge of him. Selma Hollander (his wife) was interviewed. Stan Hollander's own written work was reviewed for insight into his characteristics.
Findings
A brief chronology of his life is provided as a framework within which his personal characteristics and relationships can be examined. The major contributors to his success as a person and scholar are first, the relationship with his wife, Selma; second, the characteristics of his intellect; and third, his fascination with the arts. The result was not only an uncommon scholar considered a giant in the field of marketing but also one who enabled many others through the sharing of his mind and his humor.
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This work explores the man behind the body of scholarship and disciplinary development that is his legacy. He was an uncommon scholar.
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The purpose of this paper is to recount Stanley C. Hollander's own educational experiences and career paths. This is a reprint (with permission) of Stanley C. Hollander's article…
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The purpose of this paper is to recount Stanley C. Hollander's own educational experiences and career paths. This is a reprint (with permission) of Stanley C. Hollander's article which first appeared in the Journal of Macromarketing in 1995.
Design/methodology/approach
An autobiographical description of the author's early years.
Findings
The paper reveals many of Stanley C. Hollander's personal thoughts, reflections and some regrets.
Originality/value
The paper provides valuable personal insights from the late Stanley C. Hollander.
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Maureen A. Bourassa and William H. Murphy
The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical review of Stanley C. Hollander's Sales Devices throughout the Ages, from 2500 BC to 1953 AD.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical review of Stanley C. Hollander's Sales Devices throughout the Ages, from 2500 BC to 1953 AD.
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Using the historical review method, the paper examines a monograph with historical importance, summarizing the contents and analyzing it in the context of the author's life. With reference to outside sources, the paper seeks to improve understanding of the monograph within its historical context.
Findings
Sales Devices throughout the Ages provides a fascinating journey through 4,000 years of selling history. Analysis of the monograph and of its historical context reveals transformations in the legitimacy of selling, both within marketing and within society as a whole.
Originality/value
This monograph is one of Hollander's earliest works, and as a result, few library copies remain. We are not aware of any other reviews of this monograph, and are therefore pleased it is being brought to the fore in this special issue celebrating Hollander's life and work.
The aim of this overview is to reflect on the family resemblances between psychogeography and marketing history.
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The aim of this overview is to reflect on the family resemblances between psychogeography and marketing history.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is informally predicated on the perspectives and philosophies of literary theory in general and New Historicism in particular.
Findings
Using exemplar excerpts from salient published works, marketing’s hitherto overlooked psychogeographical traditions are contemplated and celebrated, the sterling contributions of Stanley C. Hollander above all.
Research limitations/implications
Like poets who don’t know it, marketing historians are unsung contributors to the psychogeographical corpus. There is much more that can be done, however, especially in relation to works of imaginative literature.
Originality/value
This paper aims to uncover past achievements not advance the future agenda.
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D.G. Brian Jones and William Keep
The purpose of this paper is to describe Stanley C. Hollander's doctoral seminar in the history of marketing thought and offer some insights into its uniqueness.
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The purpose of this paper is to describe Stanley C. Hollander's doctoral seminar in the history of marketing thought and offer some insights into its uniqueness.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents a combination of personal reflections, personal interviews, and documentation from the final offering of the course.
Findings
Hollander's course was distinctive among such efforts at doctoral education and probably one of the last such seminars in North America.
Originality/value
There has been little written about teaching the history of marketing thought and to date no published account of Hollander's seminar.
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Stanley C. Hollander and Ronald Savitt
Compares a response to an article by Savitt (Vol. 18 Nos. 6.7, 1984) from Hollander and including Savitt's rejoinder, making for very interesting reading and lively debating…
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Compares a response to an article by Savitt (Vol. 18 Nos. 6.7, 1984) from Hollander and including Savitt's rejoinder, making for very interesting reading and lively debating material. Discusses the Wheel of Retailing concept and gives each author's point of view arguing for and against these with interesting and contrasting ideas.
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