Relationships in Business to Business Marketing

Whither Business-to-Business Marketing Education?

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the future development of the business-to-business marketing curriculum. The conventional method of sub-dividing the overall marketing curriculum is appraised, and the legitimacy of business-to-business marketing as a component of the curriculum is assessed. Broad debates on business and marketing education, concerning managerial relevance and the place of...

Using social media in business-to-business marketing

If business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing is the waves and the froth on the surface, business-tobusiness (B2B) is the ocean underneath. Considerably larger, substantially hidden, rather mysterious, containing poorly understood but powerful currents, and with un-plumbed depths. While B2C marketers, perhaps obsessed with the excitement and glamour of big budget TV advertising campaigns, came rather...

Trends in Internet-based business-to-business marketing

The Internet is changing the transactional paradigms under which businesses-to-business marketers operate. Business-to-business marketers that take advantage of the operational efficiencies and effectiveness that emerge from utilizing the Internet in transactions are outperforming firms that utilize traditional transactional processes. As an example, Dell computers, by utilizing business-to-bus...

Sustainability and business-to-business marketing: A framework and implications

Business to business governance structure and marketing strategy

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Channel governance structure Marketing strategy Business to business marketing This study tries to find an answer to the question: Are different marketing channel governance structural dimensions equally conducive for different marketing strategies? The results from an empirical study suggest that different dimensions of channel governance structure may not be eq...