The present research was conducted on the subject on how various managerial traits have an impact on overall decision-making based on marketing information systems

Alharbi Adel Saleh M and Wang Aimin
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Alharbi Adel Saleh M: Wuhan University of Technology
Wang Aimin: Wuhan University of Technology

Journal of International Business Research and Marketing, 2016, vol. 1, issue 4, 22-26

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide conceptual framework that can be used by marketing scholars and business executives to formulate a global marketing strategies that can help them to pursue their international operation in foreign markets successfully. For this purpose, the paper utilizes marketing capabilities of the firm including market sensing, partner linking and customer engagement and analyse how each of these capabilities are important to pursue global strategy that will help the firm to achieve competitive advantage. After a careful consideration of previous literature in the same field, the importance of control variables, such as international experience and international entrepreneurship, has been discovered and they are included as having moderating impact between marketing capabilities and global strategy formulation. The study has following propositions: market sensing has a positive relationship with international performance, customer engagement has a positive relationship with international performance, partner linking has a positive relationship with global strategy formulation etc. The originality of this paper can be explained by the integration of three important variables such as market sensing, partner linking and customer engagement, and by moderating role of international experience and international entrepreneurship. This paper provides some important managerial implication for business executives, which can be found in discussion part. The future research in the same field should take into consideration the other important marketing capabilities such as brand management, marketing communications management and channel management.

Keywords: Market sensing; customer engagement; partner linking; global marketing strategy; international performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.18775/jibrm.1849-8558.2015.14.3003

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