Globalization, marketing resources, and performance: Evidence from China

Two important areas are underexplored in the relationship between marketing resources and performance. First, the subject has been primarily investigated in the context of Western countries, and inadequate attention has been given to emerging economies. Second, despite the recent growth in globalization, the moderating role of globalization on the link between marketing resources and performance has not been investigated. Addressing these important gaps, this article focuses on an emerging economy (China) and explores the moderating effect of globalization on this link. Specifically, the authors develop several hypotheses highlighting the moderating role of globalization activities (global product sourcing, global market seeking, and global partnership) on the link between marketing resources (market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and innovative capability) and firm performance. The findings of the moderating role of globalization provide several important implications for marketing theory development and managerial practice. Xueming Luo (luoxm@uta.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing in the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before joining the University of Texas at Arlington faculty, he was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Fredonia. His research has appeared in various journals, including theJournal of Business Research, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of Interactive Advertising, and Industrial Marketing Management. K. Sivakumar (Ph.D., Syracuse University; k.sivakumar@lehigh. edu) is the Arthur Tauck Professor of International Marketing & Logistics and a professor of marketing at Lehigh University. Prior to joining Lehigh in 2001, he spent 9 years at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His research interests include pricing, global marketing, and innovation management. His research has been published or is forthcoming in theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of International Business Studies, Decision Sciences Journal, Marketing Letters, the Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Pricing Strategy & Practice: An International Journal, Psychology & Marketing, and other publications. He has won several awards for his research (including theDonald Lehman Award) and is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals. He has won outstanding reviewer awards from two journals. Sandra S. Liu (liuss@purdue.edu) is an associate professor in the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of London, and her current research interest focuses on strategic marketing issues in the context of customer contact, including knowledge management in a corporation in transition and sales management in a knowledge economy. With her extensive industry experience, she has written a number of books and journal articles, which have appeared in theInternational Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, theEuropean Journal of Marketing, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, among others.     

Organizational capabilities in e-commerce: An empirical investigation of e-brokerage service providers

E-commerce not only has tremendous potential for growth but also poses unique challenges for both incumbents and new entrants. By examining drivers of firm performance in e-commerce from a capabilities perspective, the authors conceptualize three firm capabilities that are critical for superior firm performance in e-commerce: information technology capability, strategic flexibility, and trust-building capability. The extent and nature of market orientation is conceptualized as a platform for leveraging e-commerce capabilities. The authors test the effects of e-commerce capabilities on performance (e.g., relative profits, sales, return on investment) using data from 122 e-brokerage service providers. The results indicate that information technology capability and strategic flexibility affect performance given the right market orientation. Amit Saini (asaini2@unl.edu) is an assistant professor of marketing at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He conducts research in the area of marketing strategy, technology-marketing interface, e-commerce strategy, and customer relationship management. He has presented papers at major conferences, and his research appears in theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science and American Marketing Association—Marketing Educator’s Conference Proceedings. His industry experience includes sales management and quantitative market research. Jean L. Johnson (Johnsonjl@wsu.edu) is a professor of marketing at Washington State University. Her research includes partnering capabilities development in, and management of, interfirm relationships and management of international strategic alliances. Her research appears in journals such as theJournal of Marketing, the Journal of International Business Studies, theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and theInternational Journal of Research in Marketing. She serves on the editorial boards of theJournal of Marketing, theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Retailing, theJournal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and reviews for others. She spent several years in the advertising industry and has lived, taught, and conducted research in France and Japan. She has been selected to cochair the 2006 winter American Marketing Association (AMA) conference.     

论中国媒体经济的现代走势

媒体经济作为中国市场经济的产物,有其特定的市场内涵、运行轨迹、运作模式以及未来走向。中国媒体产业在完全实现由计划经济向市场经济的转化之后,中国现代媒体经济走向世界就成为必然。     

顾客资产导向下的营销质量思考

顾客资产正日益成为衡量企业竞争力和长期绩效的重要标志。要真正实现顾客价值的最大化，企业必须在扩大市场占有率、识别顾客需求、识别顾客满意的质量因素、产品的创新和细分顾客过程等方面用质量的理念给予认真思考。     

顾客忠诚维度的企业赢利策略研究

在一个很长的历史时期，市场份额被管理者看成是衡量一个企业能否获取高额利润的重要指标．直到20世纪80年代这一观念才开始改变。大量研究表明，市场份额和企业利润的相关度在大大降低，而顾客忠诚度则成为与企业高利润更为密切相关的因素。因此，企业要实现其利润最大化，必须重视培养顾客对企业的忠诚度。     

我国超市发展的现状及对策

文章以即将加入WTO ,世界一些知名的经销商将更多地进入中国市场为背景 ,分析了现阶段我国超市经营中存在的问题 ,提出了相应的对策。     

市场经济条件下的期刊经营策略浅探

分析了期刊市场的形势，指出了市场经济下经营和发展期刊的5种策略：明确市场定位；提高期刊质量；拓宽发行渠道；开辟与期刊相关的经营业务；实现期刊的管理创新。     

客户关系管理中的价值研究框架分析

价值研究是客户关系管理研究中基础而关键的问题。现有的价值研究多半是基于企业信息完全的假设上的,但是这个假设在实践中往往很难成立。因此很有必要讨论在信息不完全和不对称的环境下价值信息的获取。可以利用信息经济学中的契约设计的原理在信息不对称的环境下获取客户价值信息。     

基于客户价值的配送企业价值链分析与重组

指出了传统价值链思想的局限性，从企业获得持续竞争优势出发，提出了基于顾客价值的价值链分析方法，并将其应用到配送企业价值链重组中，分析了虚拟配送企业价值链的特点，并对虚拟配送企业提高客户价值的方法进行了讨论。     

我国第三方物流企业的合理市场定位

第三方物流企业的发展需要合理的市场定位。发展中国的第三方物流，第三方物流企业必须合理而有序的进行自身的市场定位，从而有效的规避市场风险。接受中国目前的物流市场环境约束，第三方物流企业应该参照地域优势的指标，形成业内的逆时针供应链，提高自身的服务能力。