The research builds upon the literature in electronic commerce and past research in marketing with the objective of understanding factors that impact a product’s adaptability to online marketing. A review of marketing channel choice literature reveals a set of factors and channel choice functions that are considered important in making channel decisions. Using this as a basis, four major channe...

This is the second in a trilogy of papers reporting on a five-year research project into marketing strategy making in medical markets. Following on from the weak marketing strategy observed in the first paper, this work explains the origins of marketing strategy process failure in terms of incongruence with market and organisational culture conditions. It concludes that any generic approach to ...

Xiaomi Corporation has successfully developed and expanded the mobile phone business by virtue of its excellent marketing strategy, replicating model, Xiaomi's smart hardware also received a good market response. It made relatively successful decisions in Internet marketing, spokesperson selection, product pioneered establishment complete dual-channel online offline sales. However, process Corp...

Time has witnessed the different phases of marketing strategy. Out of which, sustainability is the key issue which has emerged in marketing strategy over the time. In earlier phase of 1970s, ecological issues have emerged as a new paradigm in marketing strategy. Then in next decade, social issues picked up the lime light and emerged along with ecology. Reassessment of the issues resulted in evo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present taxonomy of marketing strategy concepts and integrative frameworks that differentiate and integrate its formulation and implementation processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is conceptual based on a review of academic literature on marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals January 1990-April 2006. We present selected ...