in spite rapid and increasing growth of international tourism industry and its importance in economy countries in the world (globe), unfortunately iran could not yet benefited from the economic advantages of this section and could not yet obtained a considerable share from its foreign currency. regarding the important role of the tourism in the world trade, and earning of about 10 percent (10%)...

The phenomenal growth of the fairtrade industry has attracted increased research interest but little is known as to what marketing factors drive fairtrade retail sales. This gap has profound implications for fairtrade marketing research and the future of the fairtrade industry. To provide a more robust and objective insight this paper draws on the analysis of supermarket loyalty card dataset of...

Increasing competition is one of the characteristics for the market environment in the last few decades. As competition intensifies, decision making and policy making become more complicated for survival or victory in the market, and managers are noticing that short-term plans and incoherent efforts is not enough to solve complex organizational issues. Nowadays, the organizational space, workin...

This study explores how music industry and consumers perceive marketing actions in social media. We employ four case studies and one focus group in the empirical research. The results demonstrate that the music industry utilizes social media to establish communities, advertise new artists and songs, promote concerts and uploads videos to get visibility for their brand. Furthermore, consumers pe...

The authors examine industry concentration for the U.S. food manufacturing sector. This study is the first to examine whether particular subsectors within the food manufacturing industry, which operate in the presence of industry-funded check-off programs such as marketing orders, are more or less concentrated than industries without such research and marketing programs. The authors find eviden...

the purpose of this paper is to make explicit how companies in pharmaceutical sector can ensure their position in different markets by relying on a sustainable competitive advantages resulted from using a good defined marketing model. various factors are highlighted including high research and development roles and costs, hard government regulation in frame of gmp standard, market analysis tool...

INTRODUCTION This study analyzes tobacco industry menthol marketing strategies aimed at urban predominantly Black populations. METHODS Data are drawn from an interview with a former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company trade marketing manager, tobacco industry documents on Kool promotions in urban areas, and public health literature on tobacco marketing. RESULTS Tobacco companies recognize th...

The popular marketing textbooks and the published literature overall deal primarily with the theoretical and practical aspects of the marketing audit without offering any rigorous empirical validation. The teaching of the marketing audit appears to be based on the logical expectation of its usefulness, isolated case studies, and anecdotal evidence. There is little indication of how, generally, ...