PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Don E. Schultz AU - Philip J. Kitchen TI - A Response to ‘Theoretical Concept or Management Fashion’ AID - 10.2501/JAR-40-5-17-21 DP - 2000 Sep 01 TA - Journal of Advertising Research PG - 17--21 VI - 40 IP - 5 4099 - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/40/5/17.short 4100 - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/40/5/17.full SO - J Advert Res2000 Sep 01; 40 AB - This paper, by two well known writers on IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications), is a response to Cornelissen and Lock (ref 34845, JAR Sept/Oct 2000), which contends that IMC is a management fashion rather than a developing academic theory. They refute the contention.