Implementing Marketing Strategy Through a Market Orientation

The adoption of specific marketing strategies is related to several factors in an organization including the organization's mission, objectives, resources, and market orientation. We report an exploratory study in which we define relationships between market orientation and marketing strategy in a high technology environment - the telecommunications industry in the United States. Market orientation is defined as a culture that influences how employees think and act. Our results indicate that a market orientation provides a context for the implementation of specific marketing strategies by serving as a moderator of operational marketing strategy. For example, those organizations who possess a strong market-oriented culture (high-spirited cultures) engage in value creation strategies such as market segmentation, developing new products/services for new markets, and product or service customisation. Those organizations possessing low market orientations (ineffectual cultures) generally practice less aggressive and internally focused strategies such as charging lower prices, providing limited customer service, product/service standardization, and undertake limited market research.     

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。     

The Role of Soft Factors in Implementing a Service-Oriented Strategy in Industrial Marketing Companies

ABSTRACT

It has been recognized that in today's highly competitive industrial markets, one of the few ways left to gain differentiation from competitors is by offering value-added services. To do so, however, requires a service-oriented strategy and the active implementation of this strategy which includes significant internal changes in management philosophy and approach. Unfortunately, no study has examined the implementation aspects of a service-oriented strategy. In this context, our research focuses on two important “soft factors,” corporate culture and human resource management, that are necessary for a successful implementation of a service-oriented strategy in industrial marketing companies. We analyze the mediating role of these two soft factors in the causal chain leading from a service-oriented strategy to organizational performance. We find that the soft factors play an important mediating role in the link between a service-oriented strategy and organizational performance.     

生态文明背景下企业绿色营销战略实施的问题及对策

企业实施绿色营销战略有利于培养人们环保意识、提升企业经济效益、实现可持续性发展。而现阶段企业绿色营销的开展结果并不理想。在生态文明背景下,针对企业实施绿色营销战略存在的法律制度效应不足、缺乏绿色营销观念、绿色消费需求不足等问题,提出了加强法律法规约束力度、普及绿色营销观念宣传、加大企业相关技术投入、提高大众绿色消费意识的营销策略。进而使企业加快向绿色企业转型,满足社会和消费者的绿色需求,实现经济的可持续发展。     

区域市场营销与企业市场营销的关系研究

在全球化时代,经济、社会、文化、人才等资源的区域化乃至全球化流通以及"产业集聚"使得区域必须运用营销思想来进行规划和运营。而区域市场营销与企业市场营销在营销实质上是相同的,都是以顾客为中心,围绕着顾客的需要和愿望来开展的营销活动,都要面临市场竞争并借助促销手段来追求双赢结果;但在具体操作上,二者既有联系又有区别。     

奥运营销和擦边球营销

2008奥运会即将来临，“奥运营销”俨然成为中国营销的必修课，而具有中国特色的市场经济又催生了大批的“非奥运营销”，这些所谓的“非奥运营销”实际上存在着可怕的误区，在误导着众多中小企业进行错误的营销，今天我们就来谈谈“奥运营销”和“擦边球营销”。[第一段]     

新会计准则中的“两难”困境研究

我国最新发布的39项企业会计准则中体现了人们在对会计信息有用性的不断追求上正面临着可靠性与相关性的"两难"困境。比如公允价值与账面价值的选择上、内部研发无形资产支出是费用化还是资本化、资产减值准备是否转回等问题上就面临着"两难"困境。本文分析了新会计准则中存在的"两难"困境,并提出了相应的举措。     

营销新模式之家庭全户营销

随着居民收入的增长，生活水平的提高。相应的消费能力也逐渐扩大，前不久北京新世界商场店庆．连续营业60小时不打烊，即刨下了销售过亿的商业奇迹，更令诸多商家看到了希望。面对日益激烈的市场竞争，如何才能更有效地推销自己的产品，提升自己的市场份额，进而取得较好的经济效益和社会效益，是商家重点关注的问题。基于此目的，就需要对人们的消费行为进行深入研究．以探究影响人们购买决策的真正因素。     

Marketing Plans or Marketing Planning?

The standard textbook model of marketing planning starts with strategic analysis, leading to marketing objectives and strategy formulation, action programmes, implementation, and control. The empirical study reported here suggests that while many practitioners apparently aspire to use this model, few use it as prescribed. In particular, few firms included specific action programmes for the marketing mix or any forecasts of competitors'strategies. At the individual firm level there was also some mismatch between the contents of the plan and the intended benefits of planning. Whether or not they produced an explicit annual marketing plan, most firms'planning behaviour consisted mainly of extensive budgeting combined with limited strategic analysis. The main thesis is that the standard model of marketing planning aims to achieve too much and may even be counter-productive as well as time-wasting and energy-sapping. A simpler and more action orientated model is proposed.     

绿色营销、公益营销和社会营销的比较分析

绿色营销、公益营销和社会营销都是对传统营销观念的发展和修正,符合企业发展的基本规律。其中社会营销的内涵最为丰富,是和传统营销观念相对应的一种新的营销观念;绿色营销源于社会营销;公益营销是社会营销观念指导下的营销方式的创新;三种既有密切联系又各有侧重。不同的营销形式,在为企业营销行为提供新的选择的同时,也给企业提出了新的社会要求。一个理性的企业,在营销形式的选择上,应结合企业自身的具体情况,根据企业生产经营的发展阶段和企业所处的内外部特定环境,科学理性的选择有效的营销行为。     

Marketing

In carrying out their jobs marketers face many ethical dilemmas. Several examples of such dilemmas and how managers may reduce unethical marketing behavior are discussed. Managers must expose unethical marketing practices and encourage ethical behavior. This can be done by establishing organizational goals, providing supportive corporate environments, and drafting codes of conduct or codes of ethics. Each of these factors is discussed in separate sections of h e article. Top managers can uphold marketing ethics by creating programs to mobilize the organization toward realizing its ethical goals. Top managers can support ethical marketing behavior by setting realistic marketing goals and rewarding ethical marketers. Finally, corporate marketing     

Implementing the Marketing Concept One Employee at a Time: Pinpointing Beliefs about Customer Focus as a Lever for Organizational Renewal

This paper revisits the literature on organizational culture to motivate new theorizing about implementation of the marketing concept. We propose an individual-level construct, conceived as an alternative to the SBU-level conceptions featured in current theorizing about market orientation, and ground it in the organizational cognition perspective on culture. Our alternative construct—customer focus—is defined as an individual's beliefs about the value of direct customer contact for achieving desired performance outcomes in his or her own job. A measure for the construct is presented and its predictive validity is demonstrated with respect to individuals' interactions with customers. As a parsimonious and functionally-unbounded construct, customer focus can motivate theory development through identification of its unique antecedents and consequences. A preliminary nomological network is offered to suggest avenues for future research and indicate the potential role of customer focus in effecting organizational change and vitality.     

浅析城市营销中的政府营销能力

全球化使世界各城市之间的竞争日趋激烈,城市营销已成为全球性趋势。城市政府在城市营销中起主导的地位和作用,城市政府营销能力的强弱直接关系到政府能否综合运用城市营销战略和策略,从而影响到城市在竞争中的地位。提高城市营销的效率,必须全方位对城市政府营销能力进行加强和培育。     

精准营销和社群营销将是互联网营销的主流——访百度广告部总监李峰

百度还是那个百度，凭借他我们可以在网络资讯的海洋里直接命中目标，且无孔不入；百度已经不是那个百度，搜索大鳄百度的角色开始多元化，已经超越了单纯的搜索引擎网站。百度正在积极架构搜索社区，将未来发展方向定到了“社区生活”。最新的相关数据也表明百度的努力已经初见成效。百度是如何挖掘社区的商业价值的？精准营销如何实现？为此我们特意采访了百度广告部总监李峰先生。[编者按]     

论企业营销战略转型——从数量营销到全面质量营销

加入WTO ,对企业来说是机遇也是挑战 ,我们只有树立更加科学的营销理念 ,采用现代的营销战略和经营手段才能适应激烈的市场竞争。由此对数量营销和全面质量营销两种经营战略进行对比分析 ,指出实施全面质量营销战略有助于企业在竞争中取得成功     

Academy of Marketing Conference 2006 Marketing Excellence

Within business to business relationships it is not uncommon for some of the parties to be perceived as exercising power over others. A question that therefore needs to be addressed is why some parties appear to be willing to accept subservient roles. This paper will consider the possibility that an apparently subservient role may be acceptable to a party for two reasons. First, the party may not perceive their situation as being inequitable. Second, the party may believe that, at least in the short-term, there is no realistic alternative other than to accept a subservient role.     

个性化营销:营销新纪元

营销管理的理论与战略需要随着市场的变化和营销实践的发展而不断地完善。随着新世纪的来临,营销管理人员开始采用一种策略把他们与客户的关系建立在一种“个人主义”或我们常称的“个性化”的基础上。这种策略的核心内容是按特定客户的个人需要来定制商品和服务,而不是为所有客户提供同一种商品或服务。基于个性化的重要性,它应与产品、价格、渠道、促销、人员、物质财富、计划等一起作为营销组合的元素,形成新的营销组合,即8Ps。     

营销决策与企业营销环境的适配研究

<正>一、引言任何事物的存在和发展都离不开特定环境的影响,企业既是一种以盈利为目的的经济组织,又是生存于一定环境中的人造“生命体”。它同其他生命体一样,要在一定的环境中经历诞生、成长、衰弱和消亡的过程。     

21世纪酒店营销主流——绿色营销

绿色营销逐渐成为国际营销的新潮流,在国内外环保压力下,我国酒店应树立绿色营销意识,文章基于酒店绿色营销提出的背景及其含义分析了我国酒店实施绿色营销面临的现实障碍,有针对性地提出了实施绿色营销的相关对策。