Does Multi-stage Marketing Pay?: Creating Competitive Advantages Through Multi-stage Marketing (Business-to-Business-Marketing) - Softcover

Schönhoff, Alejandro-Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658055588 ISBN 13: 9783658055585

Publisher: Springer Gabler, 2014

Synopsis

Some scholars propose that the concept of market orientation needs to be extended to encompass a company’s indirect customers too. In an action-oriented perspective, this extended market orientation implies the notion of multistage marketing (MSM). For B‑to‑B settings, MSM entails the expanded consideration of both direct and indirect customers; it also provides the necessary capabilities to implement such a market orientation. In this study, Alejandro-Marcel Schönhoff presents a scenario-based experiment, using limit conjoint analysis, to establish an empirical basis for measuring the potential effects of different MSM types on direct customers’ willingness to pay and other key outcome variables. The results show, among other things, that collaborative MSM exerts a positive effect on willingness to pay, whereas non collaborative MSM has a negative effect on direct customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Furthermore, the relevance of MSM depends on the direct customers’ market power toward their own customers.

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About the Author

Alejandro-Marcel Schönhoff is a sales manager in the industrial adhesives division of a consumer and industrial goods manufacturer in Düsseldorf, Germany.

From the Back Cover

Some scholars propose that the concept of market orientation needs to be extended to encompass a company’s indirect customers too. In an action-oriented perspective, this extended market orientation implies the notion of multi‑stage marketing (MSM). For B‑to‑B settings, MSM entails the expanded consideration of both direct and indirect customers; it also provides the necessary capabilities to implement such a market orientation. In this study, Alejandro-Marcel Schönhoff presents a scenario-based experiment, using limit conjoint analysis, to establish an empirical basis for measuring the potential effects of different MSM types on direct customers’ willingness‑to‑pay and other key outcome variables. The results show, among other things, that collaborative MSM exerts a positive effect on willingness‑to‑pay, whereas non‑collaborative MSM has a negative effect on direct customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Furthermore, the relevance of MSM depends on the direct customers’ market power toward their own customers.

Contents

• Conceptualization and definition of MSM
• Generic types and instruments of MSM
• Effect mechanisms of MSM
• Implications for marketing research and practice

Target Groups

• Lecturers and students of business administration, specializing in marketing
• Marketing, sales, and general managers working in B‑to‑Bmarkets

The Author

Alejandro-Marcel Schönhoff is a sales manager in the industrial adhesives division of a consumer and industrial goods manufacturer in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658055588
• ISBN 13: 9783658055585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300