In these times of economic crisis, the advertising market goes through a difficult period, as companies reduce marketing budgets drastically trying to reduce their costs. For some companies, mobile phone can be a very effective communication channel because mobile adds are much cheaper than...

The development of medical tourism has been encouraged by travel agencies and mass-media, which describe the practice of traveling across international borders to receive healthcare services in an original way, where, due to availability and modern medical techniques, the necessity harmoniously...

Connected to an environment characterized by dynamism, the organization faces both opportunities and difficulties. It must possess a high capacity to adapt to changes and quickly respond to the environmental signals. The market or environmental instability may undermine the organizational...

In a period of world financial crisis which hinders the common development of businesses and strongly affects human and material resouces, all companies are concerned with buying behaviors changing. On the other hand, business environments realize that surviving over the crisis period depends on...

The purpose of this article is to determine which were the global marketing budgets trends and also to establish how the Global Economic Crisis influenced the investments in advertising. The investments in advertising can increase or decrease not only due to the Economic Crisis, but also due to...

The word “brand” is designated to be a name, term, symbol, or a combination of them all, in order to identify goods and services of a vendor or group of sellers and bring a difference in their their goods and services from the competitors. The present study is based on a laborious...

The loyalty card represents an excellent communication method for the improvement of the clients’ loyalisation because it permits the immediate answer by making possible the accomadation of the offer to each customer. These types of cards are efficient from the viewpoint of both the measurable...

The paper does not aim to provide practical solutions but only to raise, within the academic community, the following questions: Are the current paradigms of promotional communication still valid? Does a crisis of knowledge intervene in this field? Are new paradigms necessary for instating new...

This article deals with measurement scales in marketing research, focusing on the existing types of scales (formative versus reflective) and on the assessment modalities of the reliability and validity level of both scale types. As concerns formative and reflective scales, the decision in...

The present communication aims, without any pretense of an exhaustive research, to highlight the need for a strategic communication and promotion in such a competitive environment, by presenting some corporate communication strategies applied in the banking sector. The paper was founded, as a...