Is brand alliance always beneficial to firms?

In this research, we develop a fresh analytical model to examine the impact of brand quality on the firms’ performances when two firms selling substitute products form a brand alliance. Our results indicate that when two products have equal brand qualities, brand alliance is always a beneficial strategy for two firms to employ. However, when two products have different brand qualities, brand quality differential shows a positive relationship with the profit of the firm with the low-quality brand but demonstrates a negative relationship with the profit of the firm with the high-quality brand in the brand alliance. Our results also show that brand quality differential has a greater effect on the profit of the firm with the high-quality brand than on that of the firm with the low-quality brand. In addition, we find that brand alliance becomes much more valuable to the firm with the high-quality brand when the brand quality differential decreases, but the value of brand alliance has a concave relationship with the profit of the firm with the low-quality brand when the brand quality differential increases.     

Raising the Bar (3)

This editorial summarizes and comments on the papers published in issue 11(3) so as to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends. The first paper proposes spatial and a-spatial indicators to describe the networks of airline companies around the world. The second paper sets forth a two-regime gravity-type model with an endogenous threshold parameter to assess the effect of labour market conditions on interregional migration flows. The third paper utilizes micro-data to explain student migration flows to higher education institutions. The fourth paper is among the first to make use of simulation-based location quotients in a multiregional input–output model. Finally, the last paper provides a purely economic–theoretical model on cooperative limit pricing in the context of spatial competition.     

融入策划思想的规划思路探讨——以同里景区控制性规划为例

经济全球化的大背景下，投资体制、资源和利益分配体制都快速的摆脱原来计划经济的轨道，越来越受市场规律的引导和制约，在投资渠道越来越多元的今天，建设程序也有了很大的不同，这些变革都要求我们在规划过程中打破原来以物质空间规划为重心的规划方式，全方位的革新规划的技术方法和思路．为了在规划过程中真正理解规划实施的最重要因素“市场需求”，我们尝试在同里景区控制性规划中借鉴市场营销等方面的理论，引入市场策划的思想，力求让规划成果兼顾投资方利益以及公共利益，使之在实施过程中具有更高的可行性和可操作性。     

Measuring image: shopping centre case studies

The first goal of the paper is to define the concept of micro-marketing, overcoming the 'specialized' perspectives and definitions that have prevailed so far. Micro-marketing relates to ways of controlling environment complexity, facilitated by information technology and required by highly competitive markets. Such control has three forms: segmentation , which reduces complexity to a controllable number of variables; organization , which absorbs a certain amount of complexity by modelling the structure onto the environment; technology , which explores complexity and dominates it through simplification. The second goal is to demonstrate that micro-marketing can build a sustained competitive advantage. Finally, the theoretical implication of the diffusion of a micromarketing approach in the retailing industry is discussed. The areas of strategy, organization, channel relationships, and customer satisfaction are examined. Should micro-marketing become widespread in the retailing industry, we argue that its final result would be increased welfare for the consumer, as long as retailers capitalize on the power of information and stand as a 'countervailing power' to suppliers in the channel.     

基于大规模定制理论的新营销模式构建及系统运作研究

从营销模式发展创新的过程来看,随着大规模定制的发展,企业的营销模式不断创新。虽然理论界对大规模定制营销已做过一定的研究,但尚未提出一个系统的大规模定制下营销模式的系统构架。文章试图结合大规模定制理论和营销管理的理论思维来系统构建完整营销模式体系,把它分为营销准备、实现和控制三个阶段,并对其作了具体的阐析。     

论消费者忠诚与理性的均衡

本文从企业、消费者和社会等不同角度研究了消费者忠诚与消费者理性问题.企业培育消费者忠诚的前提是必须加强营销道德建设,为消费者创造并传递有价值的产品或服务,而不仅仅是营销手段的应用.与此同时,企业也应为消费者理性的培养切实负起责任,以实现消费者忠诚与理性的均衡统筹,从而为企业的长远发展奠定坚实基础.     

基于博弈角度的营销道德失范研究

随着市场经济的不断发展,营销活动日益繁荣,同时也出现了越来越多的营销道德失范问题。营销道德的失范不仅损害了消费者利益,而且劣化了市场资源的配置。本文以当前我国营销道德失范的现状为切入点,运用博弈论,首先在信息对称的条件下,建立了完全信息下企业与消费者之间的静、动态博弈模型,研究表明：在静态博弈模型中,企业是否生产低质量的产品关键取决于政府对企业的处罚力度;在动态博弈模型中,从长远来看,企业将立足于长期利益,为消费者生产高质量的产品;其次,在信息不对称情况下,建立了＂逆向选择＂和＂道德风险＂模型;最后给出了治理营销道德失范的几点建议和对策,指出造成企业营销道德失范的原因,不外乎政府、企业和消费者三方的共同作用。因此,加强企业营销道德建设,规范企业的营销行为,也要从这三方面寻找答案。     

电力客户生命周期模式研究与营销方案设计

电力客户具有生命周期,电力客户生命周期是指电力客户关系水平随时间变化的发展轨迹,它描述了客户关系从一种状态（一个阶段）向另一种状态（另一阶段）运动的总体特征。本文的研究目标就是基于电力客户的特殊性,提出了电力客户生命生命周期的划分及各阶段的特征。给出了表征电力客户关系发展水平的变量,对各个表征变量,在电力客户生命周期周期各阶段的变化趋势进行分析和研究,并根据各表征变量在各生命周期不同阶段的变化情况,给出典型的电力客户生命周期曲线。从而分析、研究并建立电力客户的生命周期模型,基于生命周期理念,提出新的电力客户细分方法,即：基于电力客户生命周期理念的客户分类,并针对不同细分客户制定相应的营销策略。     

商业银行市场营销体制依赖及理论模型——基于不同体制条件下的我国商业银行市场营销研究

银行市场营销活动总是在一定的体制背景下并依赖于一定的体制运行的,体制（或制度）是解释商业银行市场营销行为的重要变量。本文首先阐述了体制与制度的内涵及二者间的逻辑联系,阐明体制是制度的一部分;论证了市场营销对体制的依赖,体制要素结构为市场营销提供了资源配置的机制或方式;分析了体制或制度对银行市场营销的重要作用,指出体制是确保银行市场营销活动规范有序并持续获得高效益的根本保障;其后建立了商业银行市场营销的一般理论模型;最后分别以不同体制条件下商业银行市场营销的市场营销目标、营销变量特征、营销体制约束与激励条件的分析为依托,构建并比对了相应的经济转轨时期、市场体制下以及开放经济下商业银行市场营销的理论模型。     

万科企业品牌的营销沟通策略

文中从广告沟通、公关活动沟通、企业CEO营销沟通、绿色营销沟通等几个方面,对万科企业品牌的营销沟通策略行研究与分析。认为,万科在选择不同的沟通手段去提升品牌形象和影响品牌资产的动作中有三个方面值得肯定:一是强调信息的一致性,所有沟通手段和目标始终正确传递品牌定位;二是对不同营销沟通手段进行科学组合,努力做到整体大于部分之和;三是不断推进营销沟通内容的深入和营销手段的创新,最大化营销沟通效果。