Impact of Traditional Chinese Culture on Business-to-Business Relationship Marketing and Service Firm Performance

ABSTRACT

Purpose: This work addresses the mixed findings in relationship marketing studies regarding the importance of traditional culture-level (i.e., interpersonal) relationships on service firm outcomes.

Methodology/approach: This article leverages customer relationship marketing (CRM) theory to advance a framework for understanding the causal relationship between the Chinese cultural worldview and relationship marketing in order to better predict firm performance.

Findings: The author suggests that five major Chinese cultural characteristics—iren-qing, wa-pao, mianzi, chaxu-geju, and collectivism—can qualify the business-to-business (B-to-B) relationship building process and impact the effectiveness of interpersonal and/or group relationships on service firm outcomes.

Research implications: The study’s framework suggests that Chinese cultural characteristics, universal concepts manifest in the activities of Chinese society and organizations, have a positive effect on customer relationship marketing. Chinese culture characteristics can be used to generate excellent relationships with customers and thus create a consumer preference for certain companies and drive service marketing repurchase.

Originality/value/contribution: This study’s theoretical framework (a) distinguishes between Chinese cultural characteristic and relationship marketing relationships; (b) suggests that Chinese cultural characteristics and customer relationship marketing have a positive and substantial effect on service firm performance and that Chinese cultural characteristics are related to customer relationship marketing in their effect on service firm performance; and (c) provides managerially relevant guidelines for strategic sales planning.     

移动营销:基于短信息服务的消费者接受实证研究

作为一种新的广告和信息交流的途径,手机短信服务现已经普遍应用。在已有文献提出技术接受研究模型及其它相关理论研究的基础上,探讨消费者对于移动广告的态度和接受源技术接受和使用整合模型,创新扩散理论,任务技术匹配理论的整合模型,并进行实证研究。运用结构方程模型方法对调查数据进行分析,揭示消费者对于移动营销的整体态度,以及影响消费者接受的主要因素。     

移动电子商务互动营销模式应用研究

移动电子商务互动营销是指企业以移动终端设备为载体,依托移动通信网络,并结合传统互联网开展的互动营销活动,具有即时、直接、互动、个性化以及分众、定向、精准的特征和信息类别丰富、成本低廉、可以给受众更好的体验等优势,可以做到在需要的时间、需要的地点传递消费者需要的内容。移动电子商务互动营销的主要模式有移动二维码、短信网址、移动商圈、移动搜索及无线网站等,目前已在教育培训、旅游、农业、金融投资及出版发行行业得到广泛应用。     

服务企业全球营销战略维度研究及其量表开发

本研究在对以往制造企业全球营销战略维度和量表选择性继承和创新性发展的原则下,构建了服务企业全球营销战略维度,并开发出一套测度量表,最后通过220家服务性跨国公司的调研数据验证了量表的信度和效度,为后续学者的研究提供了良好的平台,为服务性跨国公司如何构建全球营销战略和提高全球经营绩效提供了借鉴.     

Structural Equation Test of Service Quality Dimensions on the Relationship Quality Construct: Evidence from an Emerging Telecom Market

While the subjects of “relationship quality” and “service quality” are well-researched and understood, a clear explanation of the exact relationship that exists between these two important themes is lacking. In a departure from previous service quality studies, this article uses a conservative measure of SERVQUAL to explore the diagnostic structure of service quality. Next, it investigates the structural behavior of service quality dimensions on the relationship quality construct within an emerging telecom market through a dual-lens theoretical viewpoint. The findings show that, in an emerging telecom market, the dimensional structure of SERVQUAL does not completely match with the result previously generated by the originators. It also demonstrates that by improving some quality indicators, a service provider is better positioned to improve relationship quality. In addition, this article challenges the existing tenet of the S-O-R framework by demonstrating that stimulus factors can directly predict the response factor and that the response variable can play a dual role in the S-O-R arena. Finally, implications and contributions are outlined.     

服务业市场营销特点研究

服务产业正在迅猛地发展成为我国经济的支柱产业之一。对服务行业市场营销的特点进行深入的分析和研究无疑将变得重要和迫切。根据一般有形产品与服务的区别深入分析和研究服务自身的特征和对市场营销组合的影响，对于制定有效的服务市场营销组合与策略是十分重要的。     

现代企业实施关系营销的对策

关系营销是对传统营销理论的变革与新突破,是一种先进的市场营销理念,在国外获得了巨大的发展,在实践中取得了很好的效果,得到企业界的广泛认可。关系营销导人我国后,在认识和实践上都相对滞后于西方国家。因此,正确认识关系营销的内涵,认清我国企业在实践中存在的误区并提出相应对策,就显得尤为重要。     

Service Business Markets: Relationship Development in the Maritime Industry

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Purpose: Prior literature has acknowledged the growing importance of service business markets (SBMs). However, relatively little research has examined the relationships and the motives for relationship development in SBMs. The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of relationships and the various motives for relationship development between service provider and customers.

Methodology: This paper adopts a qualitative research strategy and a case study approach. The context is the maritime industry. One of the largest container terminals in China represents a unique and revelatory case study, wherein nine container terminal-shipping line dyads are the units of analysis. The data were mostly collected via 34 semistructured interviews with maritime industry professionals. The data were triangulated by including archival records and industry reports.

Findings: The interdependence and nonidentical nature of service delivery episodes are identified and considered to add to the knowledge on SBMs. This research provides evidence of the applicability of three groups of motives—economic, strategic, and social—for relationship development to SBMs. The motives are found to coexist and to have greater or lesser weight in the actors’ decision making depending on external factors, such as industry and company development stage, and internal factors, including the companies’ common vision and desire to collaborate.

Contribution: Academic papers have usually focused on specific types of motives, associated with a particular theoretical framework (e.g. transaction cost theory). Motives have rarely been discussed from multiple theoretical lenses. When motives are identified it is not clear what they really imply in different contexts, and what factors cause them to appear. This paper provides a number of contributions. First, it integrates several theoretical perspectives and specifies three groups of motives for relationship development in SBMs: economic, strategic, and social. Second, through the analysis of empirical findings the paper provides a deeper understanding of each group of motives, proposing an integrated framework of motives and the factors affecting their appearance. Subsequently, the research is carried out through a dyadic perspective, which is relatively rare in SBM research. A dyadic perspective allows similarities and differences in actors’ perceptions and actions to be illuminated. Finally, the research brings in a relatively new and important context—the Chinese maritime industry.

Practical implications: Knowing the needs and motives of counterparts can greatly assist SBM actors in formulating their strategies and planning their investments. It is also important that actors realize that the extent to which the other side is open to collaboration depends on the interplay of various motives. In general, business professionals should realize that end users increasingly perceive various service delivery stages within a supply chain as interdependent. Thus, to deliver a more integrated and flawless service to the end user, service providers and customers in SBMs should develop communication and collaboration beyond the operational level.     

论营销理念在我国会计师事务所中的运用

随着我国市场经济的发展 ,市场营销日益受到广泛关注。作为会计服务市场主体的会计师事务所 ,也开始意识到营销的重要性。现阶段我国会计师事务所运用营销思想尚有不足之处 ,分析会计服务市场营销理念的特定内涵 ,即会计师事务所营销的实质就是关系营销 ,通过协调、优化与内外各关系主体的关系 ,调动各种积极力量 ,以确立竞争优势 ,赢得市场先机。     

论关系营销原理在旅行社顾客管理中的应用

在激烈的旅游市场竞争中与顾客保持长期的良好关系,是旅行社企业获得经营优势的关键。所以必须将关系营销理论与传统的市场营销相结合,在遵循顾客让渡价值、提升顾客满意度与盈利能力的原则指导下,使关系营销原理在旅行社顾客管理中具体运用,才能有效地提升旅行社的经营效益。     

关系营销是客户关系管理的核心理念和指导思想

关系营销是客户关系管理的核心理念和指导思想,客户关系管理的核心是客户关系。通过客户关系管理这一过程,企业最大程度地掌握和利用顾客信息,以培养和增强顾客的忠诚度,实现顾客的终身挽留。关系营销与客户关系管理进行有效整合,可以使关系营销理论得到全新发展,也让客户关系管理理论在中国的环境中得到更好的发挥和实现。     

构建中小企业营销服务体系的研究

建立中小企业营销服务体系是完善中小企业服务体系的重要举措。目前,我国无论在理论研究或实践探索中,对此尚属一片空白。应借鉴国际上成功经验,从体系的组织构架原则、服务主体的构成、服务内容设计等方面构建我国中小企业营销服务体系,以使我国中小企业在国民经济发展中发挥更大的作用。     

相知服务与相遇服务之差异性

美国亚利桑那大学教授古德克和商业作家威尔史在2000年合著的《勇敢的新服务策略》一书中,提出了相知服务与相遇服务的概念,在服务内容、顾客获取服务的方式、服务速度、服务便捷性、服务成本、服务人员与顾客情感交流方式、顾客反馈问题方式、服务效率度量难易程度、管理服务供求关系难易程度、顾客忠诚度、服务提供者报酬方式、员工满意度、经理职责、企业盈利水平方面存在差异,区分这些差异,有助于指导不同类别的服务企业制定有针对性的营销和管理对策。     

浅析饭店服务特点与服务营销观念

随着经济的发展,服务在经济生活中的作用越来越重要。酒店业作为服务业的典型代表,虽然取得了长足的发展,但是也暴露出了传统营销理论与实践脱节的问题。实践的发展要求酒店业重新审视自已面对的市场,深刻理解服务和服务营销的内涵,把握酒店服务营销与其他产品营销的不同之处,根据酒店服务的特点采取相应的服务营销策略,提高顾客的满意度和信任度。     

论关系营销中的道德决策

本文在分析亨特和维特尔营销道德理论模型，探讨其在关系营销应用中出现的缺陷的基础上，试图构建一个关系营销中的道德决策模型作为补充，并结合现实环境对企业营销道德决策过程进行了分析。     

中国高端服务企业全球营销战略状况研究——基于全球营销战略5维度模型的分析与建议

为了解我国服务企业全球化的实际水平和存在的问题,促进我国服务企业的全球化,本文对我国高端服务企业的全球营销战略现状,包括市场进入模式、营销策略的标准化与适应性程度、全球市场参与度、组织结构和价值链等方面进行了实证调研,并对调研数据进行了分析,提出了我国服务企业全球营销战略的一些理论建议。     

内部营销视角下的旅游景区与员工关系管理策略研究

内部营销是把营销的视角从企业的外部转移到了内部．以企业的人力资源管理为出发点和手段来达到使顾客满意的目的。将内部营销理念引入到旅游景区经营之中,通过员工关系管理策略实现员工满意,最终获得顾客满意和顾客忠诚,形成景区的竞争优势。     

Operationalizing the Marketing Concept in the Nonprofit Sector

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This paper questions the validity of applying the market orientation construct, which was developed ostensibly for and in large multinational organizations, to a sector whose characteristics differ greatly. Instead, this paper argues for a new approach to the operationalization of the marketing concept in the nonprofit sector. The components of this 'societal orientation' are delineated, as are the organizational imperatives, antecedents and the potential consequences and benefits associated therewith.     

7Ps服务营销策略在旅游企业中的应用研究

旅游业作为服务业的一种模式,发展服务营销是现代市场营销的一个新领域,7Ps是服务营销组合体系的核心。7Ps服务营销理念可以帮助旅游企业了解游客,留住游客,提供更好的服务。但大部分旅游企业仍暴露出不了解7Ps服务营销策略,没有分析旅游消费者的需求特点和差异性,不能满足消费者需求等服务水平低下的现象。而7Ps理念可以应用于产品策略、价格策略、渠道策略、人员策略、有形展示策略、服务过程策略、有形展示等方面。旅游企业只有不断的创新和与时俱进做好服务营销,才能在竞争中取胜。     

手机营销在酒店行业的运用与新模式探讨

手机对于营销最大的价值,在于无可比拟的精准度及即时互动性,手机营销已成为营销专家们不容忽略的话题。以酒店行业为依托,在研究手机营销意义的基础上,分析了手机营销在酒店行业中的阶段性运用,并探讨手机营销的新模式。