In order to survive in this highly competitive global marketplace, it is extremely essential for organizations to have an effective integrated marketing communication plan in place. Having a knowledge about the various types of markets that exist in the world, and in particular in Asia which is perhaps the most rapidly growing market, will help achieve this objective. This paper provides us an ...

A primary mission of institutions of higher learning is the generation and dissemination of knowledge. The low acceptance rates at the leading research journals in marketing, typically in the single digits to low teens, suggests the need to increase the quality of the research manuscripts produced. This article presents a set of guidelines for researchers aspiring to do scholarly research in ma...

The goal of this thesis project is to describe and document the recent programming that was done for the MIT Information Acceleration Project. Our objective was to create extremely user-friendly programs to collect marketing data for research studies. In order to meet the desired program specifications, new features such as videoconferencing and data storage were added to an existing multimedia...

Internal marketing has been applied to organizational employees to foster their shared understanding. This study proposes a multilevel model to depict the causal relationships of market orientation behavior (MOB) with internal marketing, knowledge integration, relationship quality, relational bond (RB), and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). A total of 471 valid responses from employees...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to determine the uses of mixed method research designs published in major marketing journals. Design/methodology/approach – This study involved a content analysis of 2,166 articles published between 2003 and 2009 in nine prominent marketing journals. Findings – A total of 34 mixed method studies implemented data-collection procedures sequentially (79 per...

In order to survive in this highly competitive global marketplace, it is extremely essential for organizations to have an effective integrated marketing communication plan in place. Having a knowledge about the various types of markets that exist in the world, and in particular in Asia which is perhaps the most rapidly growing market, will help achieve this objective. This paper provides us an ...

Dynamic business markets are forcing B2B marketers to create flexibility in their firms. The present study investigates: (1) made-to-stock (MTS) versus made-to-order (MTO, which is considered more flexible); (2) production technology routineness (with nonroutine considered more flexible); and (3) a marketing-based enabler of flexibility, i.e., applied customer knowledge. SEM analysis shows that...