Marketing establishes a communication network between producers and consumers. Nowadays, marketing approach is customer-focused and products are directly oriented to meet customer needs. Marketing, which is a long process, needs organization and management. Therefore strategic marketing planning becomes more and more important in today’s competitive conditions. Main focus of this paper is to ev...

The article is devoted to the study of the process of development of regions as a promising area of industrial tourism. The authors researched the marketing strategies of industrial tourism, studied, proposed an algorithm for selecting a marketing strategy for the development of industrial tourism and the concept of developing a marketing strategy for the development of industrial tourism. They...

purpose-the research aims at evaluating the standardization/adaptation of international marketing strategy in iran multinational companies (mncs) based a model in which the impact of external environmental variables on the marketing mix internal variables (i.e. product, promotion, price and place) is considered, while in the previous researches no attempt was done to examine the interdependency...

This paper proposes a new procedure for analyzing means-end chain data in marketing research. Most commonly the collected data is summarized in the Hierarchical Value Map (HVM) illustrating the main attribute-consequence-value linkages. This paper argues that traditionally constructed HVM may give an erroneous impression of the results of a means-end study. To justify the arguments, an alternat...

Search engine marketing is currently the most popular form of online advertising. Many advertising agencies and bloggers claim that the success of search engine marketing is driven by the ‘‘long tail”, defined in this research as the many less popular keywords employed by users to search the Internet, and suggest that search engine marketing campaigns need to have hundreds or thousands of keywo...

Purpose-The research aims at evaluating the standardization/adaptation of international marketing strategy in Iran multinational companies (MNCs) based a model in which the impact of external environmental variables on the marketing mix internal variables (i.e. Product, Promotion, Price and Place) is considered, while in the previous researches no attempt was done to examine the interdepende...

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...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Market representations Quasi-experiment Business case Marketing strategy Methodology development A central question in industrial marketing is whether the form in which the market of a firm is represented influences the marketing strategy. This question has been studied generally through case study research, and quantitative evidence is limited. In response to th...