Challenges and new research avenues in marketing science

This paper is a revised version of the key note speech which the author gave at the 1984 Annual Conference of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC). The author critically evaluates the contributions of marketing science with respect to practical relevance and managerial decision making. He diagnoses a number of substantial discrepancies between research efforts and adoption of marketing science models. Some causes for this situation are identified and new more comprehensive research avenues are proposed and discussed. It is the intention of the article to stimulate further discussion on these important issues. Necessarily, many statements in this position paper are based on subjective judgement and not validated in a scientific sense.     

Reconciling marketing with political science: Theories of political marketing

This paper has two broad aims: to trace the theoretical development of political marketing and then demonstrate how these concepts can be used in the analysis of election campaigns. Electioneering is not the sole manifestation of marketing in politics but it is the most obvious, a point underlined by recent work addressing the prominent role now played by political marketing in a parliamentary democracy like Britain. Whilst much of this material understandably concentrates on the once neglected work of campaign practitioners, the more theoretical explorations of the intersection between marketing and politics have tended to appear in management journals. This paper intends to explore the relationship from a political science perspective.     

Assessing cross-cultural marketing theory and research

A content analysis of 99 articles focuses on the comparative cross-cultural marketing research in 14 leading marketing and business journals from 1990 to 2008. The content analysis indicates strong growth in cross-cultural studies, especially in terms of studies on consumer attitudes and behavior and on promotion-related topics. This study classifies articles according to a series of conceptual (e.g., cultural dimensions employed in the study) and methodological (e.g., use of analytical technique) criteria. Although researchers have advanced in both conceptual and methodological respects, the studies still focus strongly on the dimensions from Hofstede (2001); methodologically, the dominance of two-country studies is problematic. Further, survey data from North America and Europe and researchers based and trained in North America and Europe are still dominant in the research field.     

Inoculation theory and resistance to persuasion in marketing

Marketing has benefitted tremendously by psychological theories of persuasion. Unfortunately marketers have not taken full advantage of the psychological perspectives upon instilling resistance to persuasion. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review and analysis of the extant research in psychology and marketing pertaining to resistance to persuasion. Directions for future research are also discussed.     

定位理论与市场营销理论的关系研究

定位理论与科特勒的市场营销理论都是营销史上重要的里程碑.本文通过对定位理论与菲利普·科特勒的市场营销理论,关于竞争、顾客心智与认知、分类与品类、广告与公关等的详细解读,提出了"定位理论与科特勒的市场营销理论,本无超越,实为一体"的观点,并从定位的形成、强化及与时俱进三个方面论证了该观点.     

绿色营销理论初探及我国企业绿色营销战略浅析

主要阐述了绿色营销概念,分析了绿色营销理论的特点,简述绿色营销意义,并依据绿色营销理念来确立我国企业国际绿色营销的战略.     

Barriers to advancing the science and practice of marketing

ABSTRACT

From focus groups to clinical interviews to cognitive, neurological and biological approaches, market research borrows heavily from the behavioural sciences. Borrowing ideas and methods from other disciplines, often with adaptations, while clearly valuable, also brings a significant risk of ‘getting it wrong’. Problems arise when researchers do not follow best practices carefully developed in the originating discipline. To maintain competitive advantage, marketing researchers often ‘black box’ the details of how they apply those procedures of method design and analysis. This lack of transparency provides little evidence that best practices are followed. This, in turn, raises questions about the validity and reliability of the resulting insights and their implications. To illustrate this issue, we examine two domains where there is strong evidence to suggest that current practices are not best (or even good) practices – implicit association testing and neuroscience.     

Perspectives for a theory of marketing

Perspectives for a theory of marketing are outlined. Both the so-called marketing and broadened marketing concepts are inadequate conceptualizations of the marketing process. A theory of marketing should be formulated at the macro rather than the micro level and emphasize the positive rather than the normative problem-solving dimensions of the subject matter.     

From academic research to marketing practice: Exploring the marketing science value chain

We aim to investigate the impact of marketing science articles and tools on the practice of marketing. This impact may be direct (e.g., an academic article may be adapted to solve a practical problem) or indirect (e.g., its contents may be incorporated into practitioners' tools, which then influence marketing decision making). We use the term “marketing science value chain” to describe these diffusion steps, and survey marketing managers, marketing science intermediaries (practicing marketing analysts), and marketing academics to calibrate the value chain.     

Advances in strategic marketing and the advancement of the marketing discipline: the promise of theory

ABSTRACT

Hunt (2018, Advancing marketing strategy in the marketing discipline and beyond: From promise, to neglect, to prominence, to fragment, (to promise?). Journal of Marketing Management, 34, 16–51. doi:10.1080/0267257X.2017.1326973) provides a synthesis and critical review of over 100 years of marketing literature organised into four eras. In his prognosis of the outlook for Era V, Hunt notes that there are reasons to be optimistic about the prospects for both the marketing discipline, broadly, and the field of strategic marketing, specifically. However, he also draws attention to the concerns voiced by a number of marketing scholars regarding the current state of the field and the future outlook for the field. Hunt argues that the prospects for the marketing discipline and the field of strategic marketing are closely intertwined, and that the health of the latter contributes significantly to that of the former. Against this backdrop, this commentary focuses on the promise of theory for advances in strategic marketing and the advancement of the marketing discipline.     

现代市场营销观念及方法的创新与发展

随着社会经济快速发展,在现代市场营销这个大平台上出现了绿色营销、文化营销、知识营销、网络营销、关系营销等多种新的营销观念和方法,并不断推陈出新,被称之为“新营销”。当前,我国正在构建和谐社会,倡导节约型社会,必须走可持续发展之路。在新的形势和环境下,企业应大力推行新的营销观念和营销方法,激发创新、不断提高自己的竞争优势。     

Game theory and the practice of bargaining

This article seeks to examine the insights for practice that can be obtained from the recent work in explicit, extensive-form models of bargaining. I discuss the results of the theory and compare them to the advice often given to practitioners. Also included are sections on criticisms of these models and possible responses.     

十大营销理念批判

中国成功的民营企业有很多都是短期内靠改革开放的机遇和民营资本的制度优势发展起来的,其资产年增长率可以达到几倍、十几倍甚至几十倍以上。这种客观机遇造成的“发展神话”,使得民营企业家对市场具有高度的自信心和过度的“扩张欲”,认为市场营销不过如此。然而许多民营企业是在盲目进行市场营销,就目前来说,由于市场的复杂性、媒体炒作的随意性以及企业人员的素质问题等一系列因素的影响,企业的市场营销战略或多或少地带有不理智的成分,使得营销结果难以预测,从而造成了各领风骚一两年的流星雨现象。随着绿色营销、质量营销、观念营销的…     

Editorial introduction: Advances in theory and practice of digital marketing

This special issue of the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services aims to bring together a variety of disciplines and a scholarly community for the advancement of knowledge regarding practice and research related to digital and social media marketing. Accordingly, the special issue includes papers using a variety of theories, research methods, contexts, and conceptualizations to enrich our understanding of digital and social media marketing from consumer and practitioner perspectives. The thirteen articles accepted for inclusion in this special issue are summarised in this editorial introduction.     

Historical research in marketing theory and practice: a review essay

Abstract

This paper reviews 30 years of interdisciplinary scholarship that deals with marketing history or the history of marketing thought. We have ranged across the humanities and social sciences to review the very best scholarship that these domains have produced which speaks to issues likely to concern the readers of the Journal of Marketing Management (JMM). These domains include: the history of marketing management, history of market research, history of market segmentation, product management history, retailing and channels history, promotion history, advertising history, the history of marketing thought, and marketing and the management of subjectivity, among others. Given obvious page limitations we have nevertheless tried to appeal to the paradigmatic span of the readers of the JMM. With this in mind, we have critically reviewed material that will be of interest to managerially oriented academics, as well as those who subscribe to consumer culture theoretics and critical marketing studies.     

Assessing cross-cultural marketing theory and research: A commentary essay

Cross-cultural research (CCR) is extremely important for advancing understanding of the range and limits of theoretical constructs and frameworks across different cultural contexts. CCR also provides an important understanding of the differences between countries and cultures. This commentary essay examines the review conducted by Engelen and Brettel (2010) and comments on shortcomings, as well as identifying areas where more needs to be done. A critical first step is to properly define the unit of analysis. This step is particularly critical as the concept of “national culture” is becoming increasingly less relevant and the appropriate culture unit for examination is often a smaller, more homogeneous grouping within a given geographic location. This view allows more meaningful inferences to be made and controls for possible contextual confounds, as well as providing a richer understanding of the limits of national culture in an increasingly global economy.