Green marketing examines the symbiotic role played by marketing in ensuring sustainable business, exploring issues concerning the environment and the way strategic decisions can influence it. At present, the environmental issues concern more and more the competitive approach any organization can...

In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...

Using data from Taiwan's Yahoo! auctions of Nikon cameras, this paper investigates whether there exists any difference in transaction results between commodities which are sold by authorized sellers and those which are parallel imports. We find that the parallel imports and the authorized...

The concept of competitive advantage is argued to be not very useful to managers. At best it is an aspirational goal. Books that claim to present a route to competitive advantage give false hope – multiple competing firms in an industry cannot (each) realistically set out to build a...

This study addresses a problem commonly encountered by marketers who attempt to assess the impact of their sales promotions: the lack of data on competitive marketing activity. In most industries, competing firms may have competitive sales data from syndicated services or trade organizations,...

Drawing upon the science of complexity we propose a network-centric, complex-systems internationalization (NCCSI) perspective of firm internationalization that can help us understand observed patterns of internationalization that are difficult to explain using traditional theories. While...

Das traditionelle Wachstumsschema westlicher Unternehmen in unterschiedlichen Branchen ist häufig dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass man ein attraktives Produkt erfinden und es mit erheblichen Werbeanstrengungen im Markt einführen muss. Zentraler Punkt dieses traditionellen Schemas sind die Produkte...