Urinetown

Urinetown At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain:  a promise that I would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part Of Brain: You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a musical that MIT students wrote. No musical will ever be more fun than that. Also, you cant sing, so you wont get a big part anyway. You got a decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are, for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student. Me: But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I cant sing to save my life, I enjoy it. Rational Part Of Brain: You like sleep way too much for a during-the-semester musical to be fun. Me: Yeah, youre right. I wont audition. Auditions for the Spring musical rolled around in February the Musical Theatre Guild was putting on Urinetown, which I had never heard of, and wasnt particularly keen on hearing more about, given that title. So, of course, my friend managed to persuade me to print some sheet music and go to auditions. Rational Part Of Brain: WHAT ARE YOU DOING Me: Its only an audition! Its not like Im committing to be in the musical. I havent even prepared anything to sing. Ill just show up and sing something from a musical I know just for fun! Rational Part Of Brain: I call BS. Me: No, really! I showed up,  sang You Cant Get A Man With A Gun from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got the callback e-mail. Hi Anna, We would like to call you back for the role of Sally. You may also be called back for additional roles pending the results of the dance audition. Me: Whos Sally? Boyfriend: LITTLE SALLY! Youd make a great Little Sally. Me: Does Little Sally have to sing a lot? Boyfriend: Not reallybut she has a really big speaking part. Me: Oh! Sweet. Rational Part Of Brain: NO! Dont tell her that! Now shell go to callbacks! I went to callbacks. I also got the part of Little Sally, sent a sad oops, I probably shouldnt have done that my semester is going to be horrible e-mail to my very worried mother, and was badly chastised by Rational Part Of Brain. For good reason: rehearsal ran from 7-10pm every day except Friday and Saturday, and from 6-10:30pm or later EVERY DAY during the week before the show opened. I was still co-teaching a cosmology class for High School students on Saturday mornings, still managing the Ultimate Frisbee intramural leagues, still taking four and a half classesit was by all objective measures a terrible idea. But it was so much fun. The three sunrises in a row following prod week: not so much. The acting, though the dancing, the singing, the company I have a feeling that Ill remember that a lot longer than I will those three sunrises. Rewind a bit to music rehearsals, back in March. Shortly after accepting the part of Little Sally,  I found out that by doesnt do a lot of singing my boyfriend actually meant one of the songs in the show is a duet between Little Sally and the main character, Billy. No biggie. Its okay to perform in a musical and sing a duet with a very talented singer when YOU CANT SING, right? Right. Rational Part Of Brain: Told you so. One Wednesday in March, we were scheduled to rehearse the duet with the Vocal Director (Ashley, who works at MIT) and Music Director (Matt, an alum.) We were under a huge time crunch (everything at this school runs on a huge time crunch, and the Musical Theatre Guild is no exception) which basically meant that we had time to learn every song once. So, this was it. I showed up at the MTG office to find out that my duet partner couldnt make it. Cue nausea. Ashley: Okay! We can warm up with a couple of scales if youd like. Me: Umsure. Matt: *starts playing a piano accompaniment* Me: *silence* Matt: ? Me: Sorry. Start again. Matt: *beautiful piano playing* Me: *croak croak croak croak croak, croak croak, croak* Ashley: Have you ever received any kind of musical training? Me: No. NO! None at all. Literally none. I actually dont know how to sing, at all, and Im really nervous. Ashley: Thats okay! We started the song, Matt with the accompanimentit sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in at the right part, although once I started, my eyes snapped to the ceiling and my hands clenched into sweaty fists. Tell her I love her Inhaled, nearly choked. Tell her Ill always be with her, And I will *VOICEBREAK* Couldnt make the higher notes. Couldnt really make any note, actually, since the whole thing just sounded TERRIBLE. Ashley stopped me, handed me an eraser, and lessons began. She told me to sing the song while throwing the eraser up and catching it. Fortunately for the exercise, my throwing-and-catching skills are subpar, so all non-singing regions of my brain (and probably some singing regions too) were commandeered by my eyes and hands to ensure that the eraser didnt fall and bounce somewhere inconvenient. I almost forgot I was singing I was suddenly nowhere in particular, singing nothing in particular, and certainly with no audience. Tell her I love her, Tell her Ill always be with her, And I will see her in a better place, where hope is always new Ours was a short time, Ours was a love that never bloomed, Yet in that love *VOICEBREAK, IGNORE AND CONTINUE* there lives a brand new hope thats calling out to you Its call is *BREAK, drop eraser* Ashley: GREAT! Great! That was so much better already! So, we started over. Every time I messed up, I would drop the eraser and that would be it. Dont strain your neck! Dont worry about hitting the note just put all your oomph into it! Dont clench up! When you need to reach a high note, its easy to try and strain yourself to get it out but actually, and this runs opposite to your intuition, you need to relax and open your throat more. I remembered a hiking trip during High School, when the leader told us that to keep balance while contouring a steep slope, it was important to lean out and not in contrary to my intuition, which was to lean as far into the mountain as physically possible. It was terrifying, and required utter faith in ones body to run the balancing act without your brain. Meanwhile, the eraser went up and down, up and down, as the song started again, and again, and again, and each time I was so sure that Matt would give up and throw the piano at me but his face never revealed any trace of frustration or disgust. His blank facial expression actually made a huge difference. He didnt seem to mind at all that we were spending an hour on one short song. Ashley also had me sing the song  while swinging my arms in windmills and prancing around the room. I pranced, I yelled, I threw the eraser more, I pushed sound out and reached notes that I didnt think I was physically capable of reaching, but there were still more that were out of reach Eventually, I stopped, and asked nobody in particular whether it was possible that I just physically could not sing those notes. Matt and Ashley responded with firm nos, and I was off, prancing around and throwing erasers again. I sang the song while playing catch with Ashley, while storming around the room and emoting dramaticallyeraser up, eraser down By the time I left, I had sung the song in a way that wasnt totally humiliating. I sprinted out of the Student Center (all the prancing and throwing and catching had my adrenalin pumping) and reached the river. It was dark out; I could see Boston reflected in the Charles, and my only company was passing cars. I sang the song over and over again. I pranced, emoted, gestured to Boston and to the sky and to the dorms along Memorial Drive,  imploring every boat, building and car to  tell her I love her.   I did the same thing the next night, and the next. Every time a pedestrian came into view, I would pick up the script and work on memorizing my lines, so that they wouldnt see me storm around singing about a love that never bloomed and think I was out of my mind. A week later, I was playing the pretend-youre-not-actually-out-here-singing-because-youre-too-embarrassed-to-let-people-hear-you when a woman and her husband approached me. As they passed Woman: Studying?? Me: Umno! Im practicing for a performance. Woman: Oh, WOW! Youre so studious! Me: no, Im not- Woman: Good luck!!! Me: thanks! They went on their merry way, and I returned to a brand new hope thats calling out to you.   Twenty minutes later, the couple was back. What followed was one of the most mortifying incidents Ive had in a while. Woman: HELLO! I have a questionmay I take a picture with you? Me: Uhh Woman: Whenever we (gestures to husband) travel, we like to take pictures to show everyone back home what we did. You are SO studious! People at home are not very studious. Me: But Im not stu- Woman: I want to show everyone at home what MIT students are like!!!!! Look at you. It is LATE. It is COLD, and it is DARK! But you! You are still outside, STUDYING! Me: Wait, no, Im not- Woman: So could I take a picture with you? She looked so excited! I felt bad. Me: II guess. Woman: *looks absolutely thrilled* Husband: *gets camera ready* Me: *awkward smile, holds book shut against my chest* Woman: No no! *grabs book, opens it, and has me pose as though Im studying* Me: *mortified facial expression* Camera: *click* Somewhere across the globe, children are cursing my face and the Urinetown script for forcing them to study harder.  That was the last time I practiced my singing out there. Opening night was April 27. The entire cast huddled in one dressing room, smearing foundation on our faces, stuffing food into our mouths before finally suiting up. Im the one who looks like shes six years old.   After what felt like an eternity, the stage manager called PLACES! and we shuffled backstage. Audience sounds. Audience sounds.  Rational Part Of Brain laughed, and I shut it up. Overture. We danced with each other in the dark, happy to find a physical way to freak out. End overture. Lights up: cue for Carlos-the-brain-and-cog-sci-grad-student who played Officer Lockstock, to enter. For those of you who arent familiar with Urinetown, Little Sally and Officer Lockstock are buddy-buddy. On stage: Off stage: Carlos and I exchanged a high five, the door swung open, he disappeared onstage and the show started. Well, hello there! I heard him say. And welcometo Urinetown. Something fabulous about performance in general: you dont see us, and maybe you dont think we exist offstage, but I assure you that were there, and supporting our fellow actors and actresses. You work together to put on a production. One persons gaffe is everyones big failure. Similarly, we share every little success. Something fabulous about musical theatre at MIT: people who are super-serious, going-professional about musical theatre dont swarm here in droves. That leaves a lot of opportunity for those of us who have next-to-no musical theatre experience, but want to give it a shot. In particular, the Musical Theatre Guild (MTG) has (what I think is) an awesome rule that prioritizes MIT undergraduates students in casting. Sure, a local could walk in off the street and perform with us, but they wont get a big role unless no MIT student could fill it well enough. Obviously, singing and acting ability is still taken into consideration (and youre not going to get a part if you really cant sing at all) but you dont have to be the best of the best, or have lots of experience, to take part. I like that priority system it allows people who, like me, arent necessarily awesome singers but who love performing to try something entirely new. Anyway. Where were we? Yes Carlos was onstage. Welcome to Urinetown! Not the place, of course, the musical. My cue.  I pulled out a handful of coins from my pocket, which Little Sally was supposed to spend the first scene counting. One, two, threeone step up on stage, then another, four five, and I was onstage, raring to go, thinking about the eraser. It was fun, despite the late nights. That said, I really should NOT do another musical in the fall. It would be a terrible idea. I dont have time. Right?

Urinetown

Urinetown At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain:  a promise that I would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part Of Brain: You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a musical that MIT students wrote. No musical will ever be more fun than that. Also, you cant sing, so you wont get a big part anyway. You got a decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are, for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student. Me: But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I cant sing to save my life, I enjoy it. Rational Part Of Brain: You like sleep way too much for a during-the-semester musical to be fun. Me: Yeah, youre right. I wont audition. Auditions for the Spring musical rolled around in February the Musical Theatre Guild was putting on Urinetown, which I had never heard of, and wasnt particularly keen on hearing more about, given that title. So, of course, my friend managed to persuade me to print some sheet music and go to auditions. Rational Part Of Brain: WHAT ARE YOU DOING Me: Its only an audition! Its not like Im committing to be in the musical. I havent even prepared anything to sing. Ill just show up and sing something from a musical I know just for fun! Rational Part Of Brain: I call BS. Me: No, really! I showed up,  sang You Cant Get A Man With A Gun from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got the callback e-mail. Hi Anna, We would like to call you back for the role of Sally. You may also be called back for additional roles pending the results of the dance audition. Me: Whos Sally? Boyfriend: LITTLE SALLY! Youd make a great Little Sally. Me: Does Little Sally have to sing a lot? Boyfriend: Not reallybut she has a really big speaking part. Me: Oh! Sweet. Rational Part Of Brain: NO! Dont tell her that! Now shell go to callbacks! I went to callbacks. I also got the part of Little Sally, sent a sad oops, I probably shouldnt have done that my semester is going to be horrible e-mail to my very worried mother, and was badly chastised by Rational Part Of Brain. For good reason: rehearsal ran from 7-10pm every day except Friday and Saturday, and from 6-10:30pm or later EVERY DAY during the week before the show opened. I was still co-teaching a cosmology class for High School students on Saturday mornings, still managing the Ultimate Frisbee intramural leagues, still taking four and a half classesit was by all objective measures a terrible idea. But it was so much fun. The three sunrises in a row following prod week: not so much. The acting, though the dancing, the singing, the company I have a feeling that Ill remember that a lot longer than I will those three sunrises. Rewind a bit to music rehearsals, back in March. Shortly after accepting the part of Little Sally,  I found out that by doesnt do a lot of singing my boyfriend actually meant one of the songs in the show is a duet between Little Sally and the main character, Billy. No biggie. Its okay to perform in a musical and sing a duet with a very talented singer when YOU CANT SING, right? Right. Rational Part Of Brain: Told you so. One Wednesday in March, we were scheduled to rehearse the duet with the Vocal Director (Ashley, who works at MIT) and Music Director (Matt, an alum.) We were under a huge time crunch (everything at this school runs on a huge time crunch, and the Musical Theatre Guild is no exception) which basically meant that we had time to learn every song once. So, this was it. I showed up at the MTG office to find out that my duet partner couldnt make it. Cue nausea. Ashley: Okay! We can warm up with a couple of scales if youd like. Me: Umsure. Matt: *starts playing a piano accompaniment* Me: *silence* Matt: ? Me: Sorry. Start again. Matt: *beautiful piano playing* Me: *croak croak croak croak croak, croak croak, croak* Ashley: Have you ever received any kind of musical training? Me: No. NO! None at all. Literally none. I actually dont know how to sing, at all, and Im really nervous. Ashley: Thats okay! We started the song, Matt with the accompanimentit sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in at the right part, although once I started, my eyes snapped to the ceiling and my hands clenched into sweaty fists. Tell her I love her Inhaled, nearly choked. Tell her Ill always be with her, And I will *VOICEBREAK* Couldnt make the higher notes. Couldnt really make any note, actually, since the whole thing just sounded TERRIBLE. Ashley stopped me, handed me an eraser, and lessons began. She told me to sing the song while throwing the eraser up and catching it. Fortunately for the exercise, my throwing-and-catching skills are subpar, so all non-singing regions of my brain (and probably some singing regions too) were commandeered by my eyes and hands to ensure that the eraser didnt fall and bounce somewhere inconvenient. I almost forgot I was singing I was suddenly nowhere in particular, singing nothing in particular, and certainly with no audience. Tell her I love her, Tell her Ill always be with her, And I will see her in a better place, where hope is always new Ours was a short time, Ours was a love that never bloomed, Yet in that love *VOICEBREAK, IGNORE AND CONTINUE* there lives a brand new hope thats calling out to you Its call is *BREAK, drop eraser* Ashley: GREAT! Great! That was so much better already! So, we started over. Every time I messed up, I would drop the eraser and that would be it. Dont strain your neck! Dont worry about hitting the note just put all your oomph into it! Dont clench up! When you need to reach a high note, its easy to try and strain yourself to get it out but actually, and this runs opposite to your intuition, you need to relax and open your throat more. I remembered a hiking trip during High School, when the leader told us that to keep balance while contouring a steep slope, it was important to lean out and not in contrary to my intuition, which was to lean as far into the mountain as physically possible. It was terrifying, and required utter faith in ones body to run the balancing act without your brain. Meanwhile, the eraser went up and down, up and down, as the song started again, and again, and again, and each time I was so sure that Matt would give up and throw the piano at me but his face never revealed any trace of frustration or disgust. His blank facial expression actually made a huge difference. He didnt seem to mind at all that we were spending an hour on one short song. Ashley also had me sing the song  while swinging my arms in windmills and prancing around the room. I pranced, I yelled, I threw the eraser more, I pushed sound out and reached notes that I didnt think I was physically capable of reaching, but there were still more that were out of reach Eventually, I stopped, and asked nobody in particular whether it was possible that I just physically could not sing those notes. Matt and Ashley responded with firm nos, and I was off, prancing around and throwing erasers again. I sang the song while playing catch with Ashley, while storming around the room and emoting dramaticallyeraser up, eraser down By the time I left, I had sung the song in a way that wasnt totally humiliating. I sprinted out of the Student Center (all the prancing and throwing and catching had my adrenalin pumping) and reached the river. It was dark out; I could see Boston reflected in the Charles, and my only company was passing cars. I sang the song over and over again. I pranced, emoted, gestured to Boston and to the sky and to the dorms along Memorial Drive,  imploring every boat, building and car to  tell her I love her.   I did the same thing the next night, and the next. Every time a pedestrian came into view, I would pick up the script and work on memorizing my lines, so that they wouldnt see me storm around singing about a love that never bloomed and think I was out of my mind. A week later, I was playing the pretend-youre-not-actually-out-here-singing-because-youre-too-embarrassed-to-let-people-hear-you when a woman and her husband approached me. As they passed Woman: Studying?? Me: Umno! Im practicing for a performance. Woman: Oh, WOW! Youre so studious! Me: no, Im not- Woman: Good luck!!! Me: thanks! They went on their merry way, and I returned to a brand new hope thats calling out to you.   Twenty minutes later, the couple was back. What followed was one of the most mortifying incidents Ive had in a while. Woman: HELLO! I have a questionmay I take a picture with you? Me: Uhh Woman: Whenever we (gestures to husband) travel, we like to take pictures to show everyone back home what we did. You are SO studious! People at home are not very studious. Me: But Im not stu- Woman: I want to show everyone at home what MIT students are like!!!!! Look at you. It is LATE. It is COLD, and it is DARK! But you! You are still outside, STUDYING! Me: Wait, no, Im not- Woman: So could I take a picture with you? She looked so excited! I felt bad. Me: II guess. Woman: *looks absolutely thrilled* Husband: *gets camera ready* Me: *awkward smile, holds book shut against my chest* Woman: No no! *grabs book, opens it, and has me pose as though Im studying* Me: *mortified facial expression* Camera: *click* Somewhere across the globe, children are cursing my face and the Urinetown script for forcing them to study harder.  That was the last time I practiced my singing out there. Opening night was April 27. The entire cast huddled in one dressing room, smearing foundation on our faces, stuffing food into our mouths before finally suiting up. Im the one who looks like shes six years old.   After what felt like an eternity, the stage manager called PLACES! and we shuffled backstage. Audience sounds. Audience sounds.  Rational Part Of Brain laughed, and I shut it up. Overture. We danced with each other in the dark, happy to find a physical way to freak out. End overture. Lights up: cue for Carlos-the-brain-and-cog-sci-grad-student who played Officer Lockstock, to enter. For those of you who arent familiar with Urinetown, Little Sally and Officer Lockstock are buddy-buddy. On stage: Off stage: Carlos and I exchanged a high five, the door swung open, he disappeared onstage and the show started. Well, hello there! I heard him say. And welcometo Urinetown. Something fabulous about performance in general: you dont see us, and maybe you dont think we exist offstage, but I assure you that were there, and supporting our fellow actors and actresses. You work together to put on a production. One persons gaffe is everyones big failure. Similarly, we share every little success. Something fabulous about musical theatre at MIT: people who are super-serious, going-professional about musical theatre dont swarm here in droves. That leaves a lot of opportunity for those of us who have next-to-no musical theatre experience, but want to give it a shot. In particular, the Musical Theatre Guild (MTG) has (what I think is) an awesome rule that prioritizes MIT undergraduates students in casting. Sure, a local could walk in off the street and perform with us, but they wont get a big role unless no MIT student could fill it well enough. Obviously, singing and acting ability is still taken into consideration (and youre not going to get a part if you really cant sing at all) but you dont have to be the best of the best, or have lots of experience, to take part. I like that priority system it allows people who, like me, arent necessarily awesome singers but who love performing to try something entirely new. Anyway. Where were we? Yes Carlos was onstage. Welcome to Urinetown! Not the place, of course, the musical. My cue.  I pulled out a handful of coins from my pocket, which Little Sally was supposed to spend the first scene counting. One, two, threeone step up on stage, then another, four five, and I was onstage, raring to go, thinking about the eraser. It was fun, despite the late nights. That said, I really should NOT do another musical in the fall. It would be a terrible idea. I dont have time. Right?

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Progressive Enterprises continues to exhibit attractive performances in New Zealand retailing industry (Keller Kotler, 2015). The critical success factors of Progressive Enterprises is due to several factors that includes maintaining the strengths of main supply chain that is important success factor in the retailing industry. Progressive Enterprises still continues strengthening their online stores when they believe that online commerce had become growing market especially during special occasion. Furthermore, Progressive Enterprises improves their online services by conducting huge investments in the IT systems. Progressive Enterprises believes in delivering fresh food to the people where the customers are aware of the benefits of quality goods (Sheth Sisodia, 2015). Problem This business case is taken from the company named as Progressive Enterprises that is based in New Zealand and operates in retail sector. 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Diverse workforce will help Progressive Enterprises to better connect with its current marketplace as well as lead to more and better ideas and results in the future. The problem with misconceptions can be managed by the management of Progressive Enterprises. The management should offer regular eight hour work shifts for the employees working at Progressive Enterprises. The management should provide competitive pay as well as benefits to their full-time employees (Ingenbleek et al., 2015). When an employee work hard and establishes a good track in the business, the management should offer higher salaries and management positions for boosting their level of confidence (Baker Parkinson, 2016). The problem with seasonal demand can be management of Progressive Enterprises. The management should develop a plan for assimilating temporary workers at the time of seasonal periods. To that, the management of Progressive Enterprises should conduct store meeting at the start of busy season as it is the best way to guide temporary workers learn the system and get familiar with the regular staff members (Keller Kotler, 2015). Approach There are various approaches that can be undertaken by the management of Progressive Enterprises of Progressive Enterprises to solve the problems identified. For each of the options identified, the main problem takes place when there is frequent recruitment and hiring activities (Hollensen, 2015). This give rise to bad image for any company there is constant hiring activities goes on. People often think that employees are leaving the company. But, the case may not be the same. It is a case of selection of employees for right job. It is a tough challenge of Human Resource Managers to select right people for right job. Otherwise, there will be always employees who will show no interest towards work (Baker Parkinson, 2016). The approach that should be undertaken by the HR Managers is as follows with proper justification: Training- Human Resource Department at Progressive Enterprises should nurture an organizational culture that embraces a positive shopping experience for each of the customers (Baker Parkinson, 2016). Training of employees will help them to know their job role and how to maintain relationship with the clients at stores. Knowledge of product is important component of customer-service equation as well as necessitates the future-benefit instruction that enables the staff members to be in contact with customers and be able to answer questions with proper suggestions as well (Foxall, 2014). Workforce management- Staff members are in pressure while working at retail stores of Progressive Enterprises as there is long business hours, seasonal nature of the industry and frequent promotional events (Sheth Sisodia, 2015). These activities put staff members into pressure at stores as they have to meet the customer expectations. The scheduling of expertise of HR need to be aligned with the associate attributes for tasks and shopper profits (Keller Kotler, 2015). Recruitment- Human Resource Managers who work for retail companies struggle to attract customer-oriented candidates who are comfortable with technology as well as willing to accept irregular hours, relatively low pay and holiday assignments. The Human resource department is in constant pressure as any bad hire can damage reputation of company and waste of resources. The solution is recruiting right employees for right position (Armstrong et al., 2015). Risk assessment Risk is present in every business enterprises and it can only be mitigated by using approaches but cannot be avoided as whole. While working for retail sector, the Human resource department faces various types of risks such as redundancy. It is for this reason important for Progressive Enterprises to manage their functional area (Human resource department) so that they work hard for becoming true asset for the business (Ekpo et al., 2015). Retail sector is a growing industry as people will purchase things that are necessary to them, so companies in the retail sector enjoys high profit margins and market share in the competitive marketplace. Value analysis From the above discussion, it is noted that Progressive Enterprises has the ability to generate value in their business where staff members are working their best and that results in revenue generation for the company. It can never happen that a sector and functional area has no problem as such. The study had been conducted to bring out the problems that are faced by Human Resource Management in the retail sector (Baker Parkinson, 2016). The value creation at Progressive Enterprises is in better position as they are working hard for meeting the customer expectations so that there is repeated customers and acquisition of new one as well. The main value creation of Progressive Enterprises is that they provides satisfactory returns to the stakeholders that keep them intact with the company and help in generating high profits in the upcoming financial year (Keller Kotler, 2015). References Armstrong, G., Kotler, P., Harker, M., Brennan, R. (2015).Marketing: an introduction. Pearson Education. Baker, M. J., Parkinson, S. T. (2016).Organizational Buying Behaviour: Purchasing and Marketing Management Implications. Springer. Ekpo, A. E., Riley, B. K., Thomas, K. D., Yvaire, Z., Gerri, G. R. H., Muoz, I. I. (2015). As worlds collide: The role of marketing management in customer-to-customer interactions.Journal of Business Research,68(1), 119-126. Foxall, G. (2014).Strategic Marketing Management (RLE Marketing)(Vol. 3). 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