Value Selling ist ein bekanntes Vertriebs-Prozess Konzept für B2B-Märkte und wird von Unternehmen zunehmend international eingeführt. Daraus ergeben sich zwei Fragen. Was sind die kritischen Faktoren für die internationale Einführung? Wie sieht ein möglicher Fahrplan aus? Die Literatur zu...

Brands can be one of a company's most valuable intangible assets and a lever to generate value. As a source of added value, a brand should be strategically built and managed. To fully take advantage of the benefits that the brand provides, it is necessary to propose a brand management strategy....

Most of the past findings regarding COO (country-of-origin) effects refer to consumer decision-making. While their purchase decisions are taken by the consumers themselves individually, industrial purchases are mostly conducted by organizational buying centers. This raises the question if and to...

We inhabit a global village in which international marketers are encouraged to think and act with both global and local interests in mind. The enlargement of the European Union (EU) in January 2007 has created a 27 member state EU with a population of nearly half a billion. The purpose of this...

This book presents a comprehensive examination of Chinese consumer behaviour and challenges the previously dichotomous interpretation of the consumption of Western and non-Western brands in China. The dominant position is that Chinese consumers are driven by a desire to imitate the lifestyles of...