Over the last fifty years, the theory and practice of contemporary marketing have been influenced by the focus of its applicative approach over a major landmark of the business world. A short characterization of its different orientations, from consumer oriented marketing to holistic marketing,...

A key challenge in the 21st century is identifying how to satisfy consumers’ needs in the best manner possible, whilst ensuring companies’ financial profitability. Scientists play a major role in achieving this goal, as research methods, techniques and tools have continuously evolved. In the...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing the degree of internationalization of undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral business programmes with the aid of complex indicators designed to capture the vast array of characteristics displayed by these programmes and...

Starting from the specific features of bricolage retail trade (which is part of the ‘Do It Yourselfâ€(tm) -DYI commercial format), this study aims to clarify the concept and structure of innovation in this field, and to present how innovation is perceived and communicated by sellers to...

The typology of buyers and buying actions contracts are specific categories of consumer behaviour, determining group buyers and buying actions in classes, to fragment the markets. Market fragmentation through buyer typoligy and/or segmentation is presently characterized by a multitude of...

This study examines the evolution of the marketing topics in the academic curriculum of the Romanian universities. It is a historical insight into the now well developed field of study: Marketing. In the same time it is a tribute to our professors and researchers who devoted their efforts in...

Taking into account the main, already established marketing orientations the present article aims at stressing the dominant characteristic of contemporary marketing that it presents as a new paradigm of the last two decades. By emphasizing the meaning of relationship capital as fundamental...

Recent evolution of the market globalization, accompanied by rougher competition, implies adaptation of the traders to this new reality. Their work policy will have to attract more consumer segments using the various types of retail and wholesale trade stores. Moreover emphasis is to be put on...

While vertical firms dominate the fashion markets worldwide since years, only little research is done on vertical alliances between non-vertical retailer and manufacturing companies in this sector. These paper analyses vertical alliances from the perspective of 98 traditional fashion retailers...

The Bologna process initiated a series of changes in the Romanian higher education structure, such that it will become comparable and compatible with the higher education systems from the other countries which signed the Bologna Declaration, in 1999. Implementing this process requirements and...