Pratap Chandra Mandal

Pratap Chandra Mandal is an Assistant Professor (Marketing) at Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, India. He has completed graduate degree from the reputed Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India (Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering), post-graduate degree from Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur (Masters in Business Adminstration), PhD (Marketing) from Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. His research concerns customer relationship management, customer satisfaction, services marketing, marketing intelligence, and qualitative methods in management. He is the editor-in-chief of two international journals and is on the editorial board of journals like Journal of Global Marketing. Pratap has won several prestigious scholarships and awards throughout his academic career.

Publications

Business Involvements in Promotion of Sustainable Marketing: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2024. 17 pages.
Companies should ensure environmental sustainability and promote sustainable marketing in their business actions. The objective of the study is to analyze environmental...
The New Service Realities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2024. 14 pages.
Companies require superior services to succeed in the competition. They realize and understand the new service realities in the 21st century. The objective of the study is to...
Community-Based Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2024. 22 pages.
It is imperative for companies and businesses to satisfy not only their own interests but also the interests of the community and society. The objective of the study is to...
Changing Nature of Customer Relationships in Organizations: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 16 pages.
Companies focus on developing relationships and marketing partners to generate customer value and to receive value in return. However, companies should be selective in developing...
Management of Customer Lifetime Value in Organizations: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 15 pages.
Companies should focus on customer lifetime value, its management, and on profitable customers for company growth. The objective of the study is to analyze customer lifetime...
Management of Service Quality With Involvement of Technological Developments in Organizations
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 12 pages.
Service companies should generate and deliver superior services and manage service quality. The objective of the study is to analyze the various aspects of management of service...
The New Marketing Realities and the Major Marketing Forces: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 14 pages.
Companies and businesses operate in a competitive environment. Market forces are shaping new marketing realities for companies. The objective of the study is to conduct an...
Social Implications and Criticisms of Marketing: Concerns, Strategies, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 16 pages.
Companies adopt marketing practices to delight their customers, generate revenues and profits, and to create customer relationships. However, companies may focus on their selfish...
Public Policy and Ethics in Marketing Research for Organizations: Concerns, Strategies, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 12 pages.
Companies conduct marketing research to generate customer insights. Marketing research involves public policy and ethical issues. The objective of the study is to analyze such...
Engaging Customers and Managing Customer Relationships: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2023. 14 pages.
Marketing is about engaging customers and managing profitable customer relationships. Marketers aim to create value for customers in order to capture value from customers in...
Marketing and Its Social Implications: Concerns and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 11 pages.
Companies adopt marketing practices to delight their customers, develop customer relationships, and generate revenues and profits. However, sometimes, companies focus solely on...
Service Excellence in Marketing for Firms: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 22 pages.
Innovation and differentiation are imperative for companies to sustain in the competition. Innovation and differentiation are possible more in services than in physical products....
Socially-Responsible Target Marketing and Marketing Communications: Concerns and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 16 pages.
Companies are in business to generate revenues and profits and achieve business excellence. Now-a-days, companies are becoming sensitive towards their social responsibilities of...
Promotion of Sustainable Marketing: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 11 pages.
Companies and businesses operate with the primary objectives of generating revenues and profits for themselves. In the present business scenario, apart from ensuring consumer...
Consumer Expectations From Brands During COVID-19: A Grounded Theory Approach
Adarsh Gupta, Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 20 pages.
Consumer expectation is a crucial factor that leads to consumer satisfaction. In this competitive environment, brands must be aware of consumer expectations. The coronavirus...
Shifts in Customer Relationship: Strategies and Initiatives in the Digital Age
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 19 pages.
Companies require building and maintaining customer relationships to achieve excellence in the digital age. Companies should be selective and should develop relationships with...
COVID-19 and the Tourism Industry: Effects, Analysis, and Policy Implications
Vikramaditya Kumar Taneja, Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 16 pages.
The study compares the impacts of Covid-19 to past disease outbreaks, disruptive events, and examines the current effects of the pandemic in general and on the tourism industry...
Marketing Information and Marketing Intelligence: Generation of Customer Insights
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 14 pages.
Companies require understanding the needs, wants, and preferences of customers and generating relevant customer insights to serve them well. Customer insights can be generated...
Managing New Product Development: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 11 pages.
Companies should embrace innovation and introduce new products to succeed in the competitive business environment. The objective of the study is to underline the importance of...
Understanding Innovation in Organizations and Its Implications
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 13 pages.
Organizations incorporate innovation in their processes to grow and to achieve business excellence. Although innovation is a pervasive term, it appears to be elusive because of...
Emerging Markets and Marketing Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 15 pages.
Multinational companies enter markets with emerging economies to expand their businesses. Multinationals need to obtain marketing intelligence to understand the emerging markets...
Marketing Intelligence and Applications in Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 17 pages.
Multinational companies focus on emerging markets and expand their businesses into such markets for better opportunities. Companies require collecting marketing intelligence to...
Information and Intelligence in Direct Marketing: Public Policy Issues and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 17 pages.
Companies require collecting information and generating intelligence about their customers to attract, influence, and to develop relationships with them. Companies employ direct...
Economic Downturn and Implications: – Marketing Challenges and Opportunities
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 13 pages.
Companies and businesses operate in an uncertain business environment. The environment is more turbulent during a recession or an economic downturn. Investments done by firms are...
Idea Generation in New Product Development: Roles of Innovation, Strategies, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 11 pages.
It is imperative for companies to focus on innovation and new product development. Companies require generating effective ideas for new products. The objective of the study is to...
Innovation in Organizations and Management of New Product Development: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 15 pages.
Organizations should have a focus on new product development and innovation to succeed in the competitive business environment. The objective of the study is to understand how...
Management of Innovation in Organizations and the Innovation Imperative: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 12 pages.
Companies require understanding the innovation imperative and the importance of managing innovation in organizations. The objective of the study is to analyze the importance of...
Selecting the Best Idea for New Software Product Development Using the BRICEC Framework
Mahija Ratnoo, Subham Sarkar, Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 18 pages.
The front end of new product development consists of generating ideas and selecting the best idea from the idea pool. It becomes challenging for the companies to select the best...
The Roles of Customer Databases and Database Marketing in Marketing Intelligence: A Business Ecosystem Perspective
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 18 pages.
Customer databases and database marketing play important roles in marketing intelligence and in building and developing customer relationships for organizations. Development of...
Managing Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty in Organizations: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 16 pages.
Companies require managing customer satisfaction and loyalty to achieve growth. The objective of the study is to analyze how companies manage customer satisfaction and loyalty....
Roles of Customer Databases and Database Marketing in Customer Relationship Management
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 12 pages.
Development in information technology helps companies to build customer databases, perform database marketing, and do relationship management. The study discusses the various...
Marketing Information and Marketing Intelligence: Linkages With Customer Relationship Management
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2022. 12 pages.
Companies cannot make decisions without proper information about their customers. The study discusses the various ways that companies collect customer information, store the...
Public Policy Issues and Technoethics in Marketing Research in the Digital Age
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 12 pages.
Companies collect customer information in marketing research to understand customers and generate customer insights. Various public policy and ethical issues are associated with...
Marketing of Private Labels: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 12 pages.
Private labels are developed and sold by retailers and wholesalers. Private labels are gaining in importance and are competing with established brands. Private labels succeed...
Pricing and Ethical Issues for Global Markets: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 15 pages.
Multinationals operating in global markets require analyzing several pricing considerations. They require setting appropriate prices of their products for each of the markets...
Pricing and Public Policy Issues: A Marketing Perspective
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 14 pages.
Companies adopt pricing policies to maximize the revenues and profits generated. Some of the policies are not fair. Major public policy issues in pricing include unfair pricing...
Institutional and Government Markets: Strategies and Initiatives in the Digital Age
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 12 pages.
Institutional and government markets constitute not-for-profit market with the main objective of general welfare of people. Such markets are characterized by low budgets and...
Adoption of E-Commerce and M-Commerce Marketing Practices: Roles in Customer Delight
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 16 pages.
E-commerce has become an important marketing channel with the increasing usage of internet by customers. Companies use both physical intermediaries and online distribution...
Services and Their New Realities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 13 pages.
Companies providing services operate in a dynamic business environments. They require understanding and appreciating the new service realities. They should devise and implement...
Small Businesses: Strategies and Initiatives for Positioning and Branding
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 11 pages.
Positioning and branding in the minds of the target market are imperative for any company. Small businesses find it challenging because of limited resources and budgets. Small...
Achieving Business Excellence for Luxury Brands: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 14 pages.
Luxury brands possess specific characteristics which are different from that of other brands and require special considerations for marketing and promotion. The target market of...
Pricing Strategies for Companies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lovely Chopra, Rohan Shareshtha Verma, Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 19 pages.
Companies adopt pricing strategies to maximize their profits. However, in light of an ongoing pandemic, these strategies have been put under the scanner across industries....
Marketing Information, Analytics, and Intelligence: Roles in Customer Relationship Management
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 15 pages.
Companies collect customer information, store the information in databases, and analyze it to generate customer insights. The study focuses on the roles of customer relationship...
Excellence and Customer Delight in Services Marketing: Linkages With E-Adoption and Innovation
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 18 pages.
Innovation, differentiation, and e-adoption are imperative for companies to sustain in the competition. It is difficult to innovate and differentiate physical products. Service...
Socially-Responsible Marketing Communications: Concerns, Strategies, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2021. 17 pages.
Companies require generating revenues and profits to sustain in the competition and to achieve business excellence. At the same time, companies should be aware about and...
Pricing Strategies of Multinationals for Global Markets – Considerations and Initiatives: Pricing Strategies for Global Markets
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 13 pages.
Multinationals require analyzing a number of pricing considerations while competing in globally. Firms require setting different and appropriate prices of their products for each...
Marketing in an Economic Downturn – Challenges and Opportunities: Marketing in an Economic Downturn
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 11 pages.
The business environment is uncertain. It becomes even more turbulent during recession. This uncertainty directly affects the investments made by firms. Firms hesitate to invest...
Retailing Trends and Developments - Challenges and Opportunities: Retailing Trends and Developments
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 11 pages.
The retail environment is changing rapidly. The competition is getting tougher. Some of the developments taking place include tighter consumer spending; new retail forms;...
Small Businesses: Strategies and Initiatives for Positioning and Branding
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 10 pages.
Positioning and branding in the minds of the target market are imperative for any company. Small businesses find it challenging because of limited resources and budgets. Small...
The Changing Marketplace: Challenges, Strategies, and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 10 pages.
The marketplace is changing rapidly due to a number of forces, which include technology, globalization, social responsibility, and consumer concerns about sustainability. The new...
Marketing Realities in the New Environment: Challenges and Opportunities
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 8 pages.
The marketplace is changing rapidly and is different from what it used to be previously. Today's marketplace has access to more information, is more competitive, and...
Generating Ideas for New Product Development: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 21 pages.
Continual innovation is imperative to sustain competition. Companies require generating innovative product ideas and implementing them. Companies require understanding customer...
Country of Origin and Consumer Perceptions: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2020. 14 pages.
Different products and brands come from different countries. Consumer perceptions and country images are developed because of country of origin. Country of origin affects global...
Ethical Issues and Concerns in Collection of Marketing Information and Marketing Intelligence: Ethical Issue in Collection of Information
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2019. 13 pages.
Companies require capturing relevant marketing information and marketing intelligence about customers to understand their requirements, formulate marketing strategies, serve them...
Public Policy Issues in Pricing: Strategies and Initiatives
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2019. 14 pages.
Companies adopt pricing policies which maximize their revenues and profits generated. Sometimes, those pricing policies are not fair. The major public policy issues include...
Public Policy Issues in Direct and Digital Marketing – Concerns and Initiatives: Public Policy in Direct and Digital Marketing
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2019. 18 pages.
Companies require information about customers to understand them, know their preferences, and develop relationships with them. Companies employ a number of direct and digital...
Managing and Applying Innovation in New Product Development - Strategies and Initiatives: Managing and Applying Innovation in NPD
Pratap Chandra Mandal. © 2019. 10 pages.
Companies require introducing new products in the market and manage product innovation properly to remain ahead in the competition. Innovative firms should adopt a...