Abstract:
While emerging literature on sustainability shows that environmentally responsible strategies can contribute to competitive advantage and enhanced financial performance, little is known about specific marketing capabilities that lead to sustainable consumption behavior, and whether implementing such strategies leads to firm competitive advantage. Using the case method approach, this study explores marketing-related strategies and practices pertaining to sustainable consumption as reported by leading sustainable firms in the B2B context. We examine case studies of forty seven B2B firms and identify key marketing capabilities that tie to innovation-based sustainability strategies, sustainable consumption behavior and firm performance.
We use our findings to develop a conceptual framework linking marketing capabilities to innovation strategies for firm sustainability, sustainable consumption behavior and firm competitive advantage, and put forward propositions for future research.
Keywords: Marketing capabilities, Innovation Sustainability, B2B firms
Author(s): Babu John Mariadoss, Patriya Silpakit Tansuhaj, Nacef Mouri
Source: Industrial Marketing Management 40 (2011) 1305–1318
Subject: مدیریت بازاریابی
Category: مقاله مجله
Release Date: 2011
Abstract:
The basic notion of relationship marketing entails that firms should strive for mutually beneficial customer relationships. By combining relationship marketing theory and operations research methods, this paper aims to develop and demonstrate a managerial decision-making model that business market managers can use to optimize and evaluate marketing investments in both a customer-oriented and economically feasible manner.
The intended contributions of our work are as follows. First, we add to the return on marketing literature by providing a first decision-making approach that explicitly assesses the optimization of marketing investments in terms of profitability, effort, and resource allocation. Second,we showhowthe risk ofmarketing investments can be assessed using sensitivity analysis. By means of an empirical study the versatility of our decision-making approach is demonstrated by assessing various critical decision making issues for business marketing managers in detail.
Keywords: Return on marketing, Relationship marketing, Optimization, Marketing decision making
Author(s): Sandra Streukens , Stan van Hoesel , Ko de Ruyter
Source: Industrial Marketing Management 40 (2011) 149–161
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Release Date: 2011