Starting a Relationship in Marketing Channels

Pricing in Marketing Channels

This paper provides a critical review of research on pricing within a channel environment. We first describe the literature in terms of increasing time horizons of decision making in a channel setting: (1) retail pass-through (2) pricing contracts and (3) channel design; all of which occur within a given market environment. We then describe the emerging empirical literature on structural econom...

Relationship Marketing in Sports: A Functional Approach

This paper examines how and why consumers develop, enter into, and maintain relationships in a sports marketing context. This paper presents a framework for understanding how and why consumers engage in relationship marketing. Based on Kelman's functional approach to attitude change, this framework presents three qualitatively different levels for understanding relationship formation and mainte...

Multi-level Marketing - a Tool of Relationship Marketing

This paper aims to analyse the opportunity of using multi-level marketing (MLM) as a tool of relationship marketing. The research is firstly based on an analysis regarding the issues about the legality of MLM techniques in the context of EU and US regulation systems. The outcomes of this research stress the main characteristics of legal network marketing and how a person which wants to become i...

Relationship Marketing in Mass Markets

From Marketing Mix to Relationship Marketing: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Marketing