the aim of this study is to evaluate the sport marketing mix and its seven elements (product, price, promotion, place, public relations, people, and physical evidence) in iran’s volleyball super league from the viewpoint of ministry of sport and volleyball federation managers in two conditions, namely existing and optimal. for this purpose, 102 subjects, among them the official staffs in the mi...

Before Internet consumers make buying decisions, several psychological factors come into effect and reflect individual preferences on products. In this paper, the authors investigate four integrated streams: 1) recognizing the psychological factors that affect Internet consumers, 2) understanding the relationship between businesses’ e-marketing mix and Internet consumers’ psychological factors,...

the primary focus of the present study is to review organization analysis models from the standpoint of marketing and to propose an appropriate model for information centers and entities. a detailed literature review is made concerning marketing concepts, principles and services with respect to information organizations. the second stage deals with review and study of information entities, thei...

In recent years, though, the concept of fit has been now in widespread used in strategic management research, it is in its infancy for applying fit concept to service innovation issue. Therefore, drawing on the concept of fit, this present research proposed an innovation service fit model within service innovation, market orientation, marketing strategy, and IT adoption are coexisted. The persp...

Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XXXVII (November 2000), 480–489 *Sajeev Varki is an assistant professor, University of Rhode Island (email: [email protected]). Bruce Cooil is an associate professor, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University (e-mail: [email protected]). Roland T. Rust is David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business...

The business performance and economic profit of the firm can be summarized in market share. One of the most important aims of firms is to enhance market share to achieve greater scale in its operations and improve profitability. Due to this, managers always want to expand their market share. Market share responds to elements of marketing strategy and one of the important items that affect marke...

Materials and methods A literature review was performed for selected indicators of benchmarking. This study used secondary data (financial statements) to identify industry standards for hospitals. Data on hospital expenditures of public hospitals were categorised into 5 groups (input mix), which included salary, compensation, drugs, material supply and other expenses. In addition, selected fina...

studying the effect of marketing tactical capabilities on the financial performance of the firms is now proposed as one of the most important priorities of marketing researches. however, the results of the studies in many academic fields that are conducted about a specific issue are usually contrasting. meta-analysis is a research approach that helps the researcher to achieve a suitable combina...

University of Twente The paper assesses the current standing of the 4Ps Marketing Mix framework as the dominant marketing management paradigm and identifies market developments, environmental changes, and trends, as well as changing academic attitudes likely to affect the future of the Mix as theoretical concept and also the favourite management tool of marketing practitioners. It reviews the c...