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New products are unquestionably imperative for business sustainability and success. Firms need to maintain their competitive advantage, and a major determinant of sustaining competitive advantage is the ability of the firm to develop and launch successful new products. There are highly volatile...
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The purpose of the research undertaken for this thesis was to examine management practices relating to new product development processes in small to medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMEs). The thesis topic has its origins in a European Community funded research project carried out during 1997-9...
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arts. This paper is part of a wider study into marketing communications, branding and relationships in this industry. It is … personal interviews with key marketing personnel from the art galleries and performing arts organisations. Additional data was …
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One of the major contributions of the IMP approach to international marketing has been the concept of interaction …. Often concepts that in international marketing are treated as discrete, are in fact interrelated if the notion of … both the network paradigm and the application of marketing in the international domain. They are also discussed in relation …
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Networks traditionally have been studied in the context of areas such as industrial marketing in developed country …
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The viability of ethnic market targeting can be increased through high provider retention by customers. Concepts of loyalty and switching are explored and applied to a study of the Portuguese community in Sydney, Australia. Considering three classes of products, the aims are to examine...
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Sales force automation refers to the automation of sales activities within an organization. Depending on the context, SFA may refer to the concept, the tools or the system. Because the literature refers to the importance of customer value creation and competitive advantage in considering SFA,...
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about the nature of their financial decision making which is taking place within the marketing systems that are operating in … marketing flows linking system participants? (Layton 2007 P 239) are considered in terms of the implications for the impact on … communities. Understanding consumers and their behaviour is at the core of marketing yet much of what we know has been derived …
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, that of marketing and management, and presents four key findings (a) that firm innovation and firm market orientation are …
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inform marketing managers on their choices in strategy. Findings suggest that research in this arena is in its infancy and …
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