Companies are striving to minimize environmental impact through sustainable business practices. Consumers have become more aware of environmental issues and many companies have recognized the relevance of green marketing in gaining competitive advantage. As a part of green marketing strategy, companies are developing green brands. This paper focuses on the effect of consumer’s concern for envir...

OBJECTIVES Rugby has a high injury incidence and therefore BokSmart introduced the Safe Six injury prevention programme in 2014 in an attempt to decrease this incidence. In 2015, BokSmart used a 'targeted marketing approach' to increase the awareness and knowledge of the Safe Six. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the change in the knowledge of coaches and players of the Safe Si...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Strategic marketing planning Industrial marketing Fuzzy cognitive map The relevance problem Design science Industrial marketing planning is a typical example of an unstructured decision making problem due to the large number of variables to consider and the uncertainty imposed on those variables. Although abundant studies identified barriers and facilitators of e...

Nowadays marketers complain about the lack of correct information or large amount of misinformation. The problem that managers deal with is not shortage of knowledge, but massive information. To overcome this problem, a good marketing information system balances the information users really need and what is feasible to offer. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of marketing...

This paper's aim was to develop a conceptual overview of SMS marketing and delineate factors of new communications technologies on business practice. This study, which was a descriptive survey, was built on primary and secondary data source including a literature review of SMS marketing and a Questionnaire were used as the primary means of collecting secondary data. The sample size of 300 patie...

Marketing in business is the task of finding and stimulating buyers for a firms's output. Product development, pricing, distribution, and communication are the mainstays of marketing, while progressive firms also develop new products and chart the trends and changes in people's needs and desires. Marketing can either apply its knowledge to social problems and organizations or remain in a narr...

The use of personal mobile and wireless devices as a medium for communicating with and delivering value to consumers, a new marketing venue often labeled “mobile marketing,” has recently become a rapidly growing practice. Many industry analysts agree that the notion of one-to-one marketing is now a more realistic vision due to the rise of mobile marketing (hereafter, m-marketing). Accordingly, ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer response predictive model Knowledge-based marketing RFM Neural networks Decision tree models Logistic regression Decision support techniques and models for marketing decisions are critical to retail success. Among different marketing domains, customer segmentation or profiling is recognized as an important area in research and industry practice. Various ...