On the marketing discipline -- On the morphology of explanation -- Explanation : issues and aspects -- On the morphology of scientific laws -- Scientific laws : issues and aspects -- On the morphology of theory -- Theory : issues and aspects -- On scientific realism and marketing research -- On science/nonscience, qualitative methods, and marketing research -- On truth and marketing research -- On objectivity and marketing research -- On the resource-advantage (R-A) theory of competition -- Competition theory, Alderson's market processes theory, and R-A theory -- Strategy and R-A theory.