Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

Author Bio Dr Bruce Perrott is the Research Director with the Marketing Strategy and Technology Group at the School of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney. He is also an international consultant in strategy and marketing working with such organizations as the United Nations (UNCTAD), American Express, Coca Cola Amatil, Lend Lease. Before his academic and consulting careers, he held seni...

The scope of this research is to capture a broader view of the marketing practices of the Romanian organizations, a field less investigated up to the present. This study is the first in Romania to apply the methodology developed in the international research project Contemporary Marketing Practices (CMP) and is designed to evaluate the degree in which different types of marketing, characteristi...

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...

I t is clear that the temi social marketing is now a wellestablished part of the marketing vocabulary in universities, govemmetit agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and private for-profit firms. There are now social marketing textbooks (Kotler and Roberto 1989; Manoff 1975), readings books (Fine 1990), chapters within mainstream texts (Kotler and Andreasen 1991) and a Harvard teaching n...

Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms ...