to investigate how the buying behavior of firms work is always needed, since it is an every changing process influenced by many forces in its surroundings. industrial firms tend to have a smaller number of customers which means that they are easier to identify than customers in consumer markets. effective marketing strategy relies on understanding consumers and their needs. this understanding m...

Managers can create and implement their own efficient strategic plans to adapt to changes which have diminished the firm’s competitiveness in the market. A three-step method can be applied in its formulation as an alternative to relying on outsourced planning or business consultants. The method includes the identification of economic, technological, or competitive factors within the firm which ...

There are many interesting aspects of the case on the Brita Products Company. Two of these issues are highlighted at the end of the case. First, Brita learns that a retailer, Target Stores, has installed a display which compares alternative filtration products on their ability to remove contaminants from water. Brita does poorly on this comparison relative to PUR. Second, Brita learns that Proc...

Recessions provide challenges to managers seeking to develop and justify an appropriate level of marketfacing activity. The literature on the topic offers limited guidance on what strategy is most appropriate. We briefly review the literature on the topic and report on recent results that show (a) that R&D spending by B2BGoods firms and B2BServices firms in recessions increases both profits and...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Channel governance structure Marketing strategy Business to business marketing This study tries to find an answer to the question: Are different marketing channel governance structural dimensions equally conducive for different marketing strategies? The results from an empirical study suggest that different dimensions of channel governance structure may not be eq...

A strategy that integrates an organization's marketing goals into a cohesive whole, ideally drawn from market research, focuses on the ideal product mix in order to achieve maximum profit potential; the marketing strategy is set out as a marketing plan, a good idea, method, information, object, or service that is the end result of a process and serves as a need or want satisfier. It is usually ...

This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy, the focal organizational strategy construct of the field, and enumerates a number of foundational premises of marketing strategy. The domain of strategic marketing is viewed as encompassing the study of o...