Das Ziel der Studie lag darin, den in den Firmen des WestmecklenburgischenKunststoffverbandes anzutreffenden aktuellen Zustands des Marketings zuerfragen und zu erfassen. Dieser Ausgangszustand wurde mit dem Begriff des Marketingniveausbezeichnet. Die Kenntnis des Marketingniveaus in den Firmen...

Die Autoren analysieren, ob ein Social Media Newsroom eine Alternative zur herkömmlichen Pressemitteilungen via Email in der Luxusbranche ist. Ausgehend vom Intereffikationsmodell wird aufgezeigt, dass Journalismus und PR in einer Wechselbeziehung der gegenseitigen Einflussnahme stehen. Via...

Die ifo Preiserwartungen sind ein zuverlässiger Frühindikator zur Prognose der sektorspezifischen Preisentwicklung. Zudem ist der ifo Indikator in der Lage, die Kernrate der deutschen Inflation treffsicherer vorherzusagen als ein einfaches Referenzmodell. Nach den jüngsten...

Changing economic epi-centre from the west towards the east is accompanying the luxury goods markets and the emerging Chinese market is becoming impossible to overlook for the luxury goods brands. Potential purchasers buying process of conspicuous and hedonic values enabled Luxury goods differ...

From fantasy football to virtual professors, the Internet is a key concept in marketing education — and the learning process. This literature review and gap analysis investigates the recent publications concerning the Internet and marketing education in The Journal of Marketing Education. The...

In this paper the importance of word of mouth for marketing management in the twenty-first century will be discussed. After a short introduction, there will be a focus on the demarcations and problems of traditional marketing. Then, in the third section, word of mouth (WOM) and word-of-mouth...

Numerous studies confirmed the positive impact of Market Orientation (MO) upon performance. However, MO as a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) is still questionable and few previous studies investigated this issue. By aggregating a sample of 1175 multi-source informants from 60 firms, we...

The marketing mix paradigm, in its famous version of the 4Ps, went all the way through the evolution of marketing theory: from the marketing concept, through relationship marketing, to digital economy, being object of discussion both in academic literature and managerial practice. If it is a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the marketing challenges facing the Nigerian movie industry – Nollywood. The paper also attempts to make a case for due recognition to this multimillion dollar industry in management research as opposed to being pigeonholed in the domain of...

With the proliferation of social media, questions have begun to emerge about its role in providing marketing insights. In this research, we investigate the potential to “listen in” on social media conversations as a means of inferring brand sentiment. Our analysis employs data collected from...