Marketing Social Innovation Products with IMC

Innovation Diffusion, Social Networks and Strategic Marketing: Revisiting Medical Innovation with Agents

Marketing Innovation

This paper provides an economic analysis of marketing innovation. A dynamic duopoly model is developed to study two forms of marketing innovation: ; which allows a …rm to acquire consumer information e¤ectively; and ; which reduces consumer transaction costs. The incentives and e¤ects of marketing innovation di¤er markedly from those of product or process innovations. While bene…ts the innovati...

Medical Innovation Revisited: Social Contagion versus Marketing Effort

This article shows that Medical Innovation—the landmark study by Coleman, Katz, and Menzel—and several subsequent studies analyzing the diffusion of the drug tetracycline have confounded social contagion with marketing effects. The article describes the medical community’s understanding of tetracycline and how the drug was marketed. This situational analysis finds no reasons to expect social co...

Designing a Strategic Business Model for Marketing Sports Products on Social Networks

The purpose of this study was to design a model of business strategies for marketing sports products on social networks. The statistical sample of this study consisted of 20 experts (university faculty members, employment and entrepreneurship consultants, and sports market consultants and sports business managers). Sampling was purposeful and snowballs and continued until the interviews reached...

Interactive integrated marketing communication: combining the power of IMC, the new media and database marketing

The interactivity of the new electronic media requires that a database-driven segmentation approach to communication strategy be employed to take advantage of its uniqueness. To accomplish this, firms must develop ways of collecting information at the individual level by traditional and/or electronic means, and of using that data to create informationintensive customer communication strategies....