A long running debate in the marketing literature has focused on whether firm performance is driven primarily by competitive intensity or firm characteristics. This paper attempts to contribute to the debate by developing a conceptual framework, which comprises two components of competing views...

There is growing recognition that leveraging firm resources appears to be an essential precondition for securing a competitive position in the marketplace and also for creating value for the customer. In moving forward within the new dominant logic as espoused by Vargo and Lusch, with its focus...

A manager's perception of industry structure (dynamism) has the potential to impact various organizational strategies and behaviors. This may be particularly so with regard to perceptions driving organizational learning orientations and innovation based marketing strategy. The position taken...

Purpose The current study aims to examine the role of international entrepreneurship and innovation in small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalisation, also touching on the role of the firm size as a proxy of resources in the SME internationalisation process. The study seeks to look...

Purpose This study seeks to draw on the strategy implementation approach and the resource-based view of the firm (RB theory) to investigate the relationships among competitive strategies (i.e. differentiation and cost-leadership), responsive market orientation (RMO), proactive market orientation...

Purpose The paper aims at providing insights into how market orientation and organisational culture together contribute to brand performance, shedding light on the nexus between innovative culture and market orientation, and examining the relative importance of innovative culture over market...

Since the early 1990s the theoretical and practical issues associated with organizational capabilities have been a major research focus in marketing. However, there has been little focus simultaneously on industry environment and internal competitive capability development. A manager's...

Purpose This study seeks to extend the existing literature on value creation by specifically focusing on service brand value creation (SBVC) and therole of brand marketing.Design/methodology/approach The authors first develop a model of SBVC and simultaneously investigate SBVC from the firm...

Purpose The paper aims to examine the role of service branding and web site performances in a multi-channel retail context by studying consumerswho have on-going relationships with retailers. Focus is placed on understanding perceptions of image congruency of the retail service brand...

Purpose This research seeks to extend the work of Dabholkar et al. into the e-retail domain toassess alternate theoretical frameworks of e-service quality. Particular focus is placed on e-servicequality and whether elements of e-service quality should be viewed by dimensions, as antecedents to...