About Westburn Publishers

Westburn Publishers Limited is an academic publisher established in 1983 specialising in Marketing and related subjects.

Westburn's founding publication was the Journal of Marketing Management, a double-blind peer-reviewed periodical and currently the Official Journal of the Academy of Marketing. Westburn Publishers Ltd and Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group are very pleased to announce a new publishing partnership for 2010. From the first issue of 2010 Routledge will be publishing and distributing Journal of Marketing Management. The partnership is a positive step for both parties creating more exposure and reach for Journal of Marketing Management through Routledge's extensive marketing, online and distribution networks, and adding another leading title to Routledge's portfolio.

Westburn remains the owner of the Journal of Marketing Management, and will continue to be responsible for the editorial process and policy of the Journal.

Westburn also continues to publish the Journal of Customer Behaviour, a double-blind peer-reviewed periodical launched in 2002, and The Marketing Review an editorially-reviewed journal which was launched in 2000. Westburn also publish marketing related books, and full details about all of their products can be found on the website; www.westburnpublishers.com

About the Academy of Marketing

The Journal of Marketing Management is the official Journal of the Academy of Marketing.

The overall objective of the Academy of Marketing is to further marketing education and research, and:

1. To pursue activities and policy which further the professional development of marketing education.
2. To encourage and promote academic research in marketing.
3. To support marketing academics and associated staff as they develop their careers.
4. To provide for regular liaison between marketing academics and associated organisations with related aims and activities for the benefit of members and the discipline.
5. To foster a positive relationship between the requirements of practice and the academic discipline.
6. To seek representation on the issues arising in these activities at the highest levels of government, education and industry, to secure recognition and action, where required.

For more information please vist the Academy of Marketing's home page; www.academyofmarketing.org/