A marketingeszközök és –tevékenységek részvényesi értékre gyakorolt hatása (The effect of marketing assets and activities on shareholder value)

A vállalati marketing pénzügyi teljesítményre, különösen részvényesi értékre gyakorolt hatásának kimutatása mind fontosabbá válik a marketingráfordítások nagyságának növekedésével, valamint annak felismerésével, hogy a részvényesek számára vevői érték nélkül nem lehet hosszú távon értéket biztosítani, azonban kedvező piaci eredményekkel sem feltétlenül valósul meg a pénzügyi teljesítmény növekedése. A szerzők tanulmányukban a marketingeszközök és -tevékenységek részvényesi értékre gyakorolt hatását vizsgálják, rámutatnak arra, hogy milyen módon befolyásolhatják a részvényeseket megillető szabad pénzáramot, a tulajdonosi megtérülést, a stratégiai tervezési időhorizontot és a végértéket. A marketing néhány lehetséges negatív hatását is kiemelik. Ezt követően felvázolják a marketingjellegű beruházások reálopciós karakterisztikáit, valamint játékelméleti összefüggéseit dinamikusan változó környezetben. ________ Proving the effect of corporate marketing on financial performance, especially on shareholder value, becomes more and more important as marketing expenditures increase. Furthermore by the recognition that for shareholders without customer value it is not possible to provide value in the long run, however, neither good market results can assure the growth of financial performance. In this paper the authors examine the effect of marketing assets and activities on shareholder value, they point out how these can influence free cash flow to equity, shareholder return, strategic planning time period and terminal value. They emphasize also some possible negative effects of marketing. The authors outline the real optional characteristics of marketing investments and their game theoretical relations in dynamic environment.

Replacing Place In Marketing-Mix Strategy For Hospitality Services

In the conventional marketing mix, a focus on physical distribution handicaps the use of "place" in planning marketing strategy for hospitality services. To replace it, the article introduces a new group of variables called "performance," which focus instead on availability and accessibility. The author does not intend to offer detailed descriptions of specific variables but rather to suggest associations and relationships among issues and options in marketing hospitality services that may not previously have been recognized, and to address the diverse segments of the hospitality services industry in general, including lodging, food, beverage, private club, cruise ship, and travel-destination services.

Evaluating Hotel Marketing Effectiveness: The Audit

Hotel management is increasingly looking for ways to evaluate marketing effectiveness. A system is needed to assess objectives, strategies, and performance. The Marketing Audit provides a workable, worthwhile tool for managers to assess current performances and long-range goals.

Market-Driven Hotel Brands: Linking Market Orientation, Innovation, and Performance

"Market orientation" is a term popularized by marketing practitioners to indicate the extent to which a firm is market driven. This presumed linkage between market orientation and profitability has caught the attention of scholars, but, surprisingly, only two prior studies have reported a positive association between the two. Given the special relevance to the hotel industry of being market driven, we believe this industry provides the ideal setting for demonstrating the link between market orientation and performance. This research examines this linkage in the hotel industry. The results of our study suggest that market orientation is positively and significantly related to innovation, subjective performance, and objective performance. This result yields a number of useful ideas about how to harness the power of the marketing concept.

Sports, physical activity and academic performance : promoting physical activity among adolescents

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

O marketing e a mediação: o caso da Associação InterMEDIAR

O marketing pretende por via da satisfação e fidelização dos clientes que as organizações obtenham uma melhor performance. A gestão das relações é considerada essencial pelo marketing relacional. Deste modo, a orientação para o cliente é fundamental, pois é um elemento chave para as organizações, encontrando-se no centro das decisões estratégicas. Para isso, é importante as empresas apostarem nas relações a longo prazo, na confiança e nos benefícios mútuos, para que sejam criadas relações onde os intervenientes obtenham vantagens recíprocas. Um dos fatores que contribuem para os bons resultados já referenciados é a existência de uma comunicação eficaz, entre as organizações e os diversos públicos-alvo. Pode-se ainda afirmar, que o facto de se viver num ambiente bastante competitivo entre as empresas, torna ainda mais relevante a comunicação para o cliente. É neste enquadramento que este trabalho é desenvolvido, visando o alcance de objetivos a nível teórico, ao abordar questões acima referenciadas, bem como objetivos a nível prático, pretendendo auxiliar a InterMEDIAR na divulgação de duas das suas atividades, a mediação resolutiva e preventiva, contando para isso com a realização de um plano de comunicação.

Sports, physical activity and academic performance : promoting physical activity among adolescents

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

From Customer-Oriented Strategy to Organizational Financial Performance: The Role of Human Resource Management and Customer-Linking Capability

Drawing on the organizational capabilities literature, the authors developed and tested a model of how supportive human resource management (HRM) improved firms’ financial performance perceived by marketing managers through fostering the implementation of a customer-oriented strategy. Customer-linking capability, which is the capability in managing close customer relationships, indicated the implementation of the customer-oriented strategy. Data collected from two emerging economies – China and Hungary –established that supportive HRM partially mediated the relationship between customer-oriented strategy and customer-linking capability. Customer-linking capability further explained how supportive HRM contributed to perceived financial performance. This study explicates the implication of customer-oriented strategy for HRM and reveals the
importance of HRM in strategy implementation. It also sheds some light on the ‘black box’ between HRM and performance. While making important contributions to the field of strategy, HRM and marketing, this study also offers useful practical implications.

A Comparison of the Performance of Brand-Affiliated and Unaffiliated Hotel Properties

Research has shown that performance differences exist between brand-affiliated hotels and unaffiliated properties. However, the extant empirical results are mixed. Some research has shown that brands outperform unaffiliated hotels on various metrics, whereas other research has shown the opposite. This article analyzes this issue using a matched-pair approach where we compare the performance differences of brand-affiliated and unaffiliated properties between 1998 and 2010. The matched-pair approach ensures that local competitive conditions as well as hotel characteristics are the same across the comparison pair. In addition, all potential omitted-variable bias and model misspecifications are avoided. Thus, to address our research question, we compare branded hotels with unaffiliated properties that are identical in age, market segment, location, and duration of operation, as well as having a similar number of rooms. Our analysis shows that performance differentials are present, albeit not systematic. We found no consistent advantages in all segments for either the affiliated hotels or the comparable unaffiliated properties, taking into account our comparison factors. That said, the methodology of our approach yields results that are more informative to the affiliation choice of owners and to the growth strategies of hotel brand–owner companies than those of previous empirical studies.

O marketing e a atuação social das empresas: uma relação possível?

The present work is about a study of multiple cases with exploratory and descriptiveperspective and qualitative emphasis. Its field of study is constituted by three local companieswith description of social performance, with emphasis in the personal interview with thecontrollers. Its main objective consists of understanding as it has occurred the marketingrelation with the enterprise social performance in the context of these companies located inthe State of the Rio Grande do Norte who carry out social investments. For this, it hassearched to analyze the types and characteristics of the developed social actions, to evaluatethe motivations and objectives of the accomplishment of social actions, to verify theimportance and influence of the social performance in the dynamics of the companies, toverify the level of specific knowledge and information in the areas of marketing and socialperformance in the companies and to evaluate the process of communication (promotion andspreading) of the social performance carried out by the companies. It has been verified thatthe company A directly associates it its social and ambient activities with differentiationbenefits, competitiveness, creation of value, loyalty, relationships, image, prestige,positioning of the company, sale and financial return, beyond benefits in the internal level asbigger motivation of its employees and retention of talents, not existing rejection to theinterlacement of the concepts related to the marketing and the social one. Already in companyB rejection in relating its practical social to the marketing, being observed after posteriorquestionings, that the relation of direct and indirect form exists and those divulgations of theseactions are carried out, contradicting the arguments of the controllers of that the actions wouldnot be carried out to generate media. In company C, it been verified rejection andcontradiction with relation to the concepts related to the marketing, alleging itself that theimage of the harnessed company to its social performance is not used in proper benefit,evidencing itself that this company divulges its action and is marketable benefited, even so isnot this the main objective of its social programs. It has concluded that the association ofthese two concepts is positive and favorable to the development of the businesses and thesocial actions of the companies, legitimizing them and benefiting the involved company,groups in the actions and the society that profits socially from the private social involvement in the social matters

La Performance des entreprises tunisiennes en matière d'exportation ; Cas de l'Industrie de la Confection

Cette recherche présente les résultats d'une étude portant sur les éléments de la performance à l'exportation de vingt-trois entreprises tunisiennes de confection, appréhendées par le niveau et la croissance de leurs ventes à l'exportation. Ce travail part de l'hypothèse que cette performance dépend d'une série de facteurs dont certains sont internes à la firme et d'autres appartiennent à son environnement externe. Un modèle, reliant plus de 74 variables indépendantes aux deux critères de la performance (le niveau des exportations et la croissance de celles-ci), a été élaboré. Il a permis de cerner l'influence de plusieurs variables inhérentes à la firme et à son preneur de décision sur les mesures de la performance. Il a pu également déceler l'impact d'un certain nombre de variables attitudinales et de perception sur la performance export. La collecte des données a eu lieu en Tunisie durant l'été 1990. Les résultats de l'étude montrent que des critères comme l'âge du preneur de décision, l'ancienneté de l'entreprise et l'expérience internationale de cette dernière affectent aussi bien le niveau que la croissance des exportations. La perception de l'activité d'exportation influe davantage sur la croissance que sur le niveau des exportations. Le choix de la stratégie marketing à l'export affecte considérablement le succès de celle-ci à l'échelle internationale. Les données recueillies traduisent également des divergences de profils entre les exportateurs performants et les exportateurs non-performants. La recherche autorise, par ailleurs, une meilleure compréhension des spécificités de la branche de la confection tunisienne. En dépit des difficultés rencontrées, la confection de cette thèse fut, pour nous, un travail passionnant. Nous invitons le lecteur, à venir partager notre intérêt et espérons pouvoir lui transmettre notre enthousiasme.

L'utilité perçue de l'information comptable par les responsables des départements de production et de marketing

Cette recherche examine l'association entre les qualités de l'information comptable, son utilisation, le département qui en fait usage et la perception des gestionnaires de l'utilité de cette information comptable. On a mesuré la perception de Futilité de l'information comptable à partir d'un questionnaire auprès des responsables de deux départements fonctionnels d'entreprises: les directeurs des départements de production et de marketing en regard de la prise de décisions et de l'évaluation de la performance. La cueillette de données a été réalisée à l'aide d'un questionnaire qu'on a envoyé à 308 responsables dans 154 entreprises. L'étude empirique pour tester les hypothèses de recherche a été réalisée sur 71 répondants. Les résultats indiquent que dans le contexte de prise de décision, la perception positive de l'utilité de l'information comptable s'accroît si cette information est jugée de qualité et si elle est utilisée; de plus, cette perception peut varier d'un département à un autre. Dans le contexte de l'évaluation de la performance, la perception positive de l'utilité de l'information comptable s'accroît si cette information est jugée de qualité, elle peut varier d'un département à un autre, mais contrairement à l'hypothèse posée cette perception n'est pas liée à son utilisation. On note aussi que l'utilité perçue de l'information comptable est meilleure dans les départements de marketing que dans les départements de production.

Marketing interno e a sua influência na motivação dos colaboradores

O marketing interno (MI) surge como uma ferramenta de gestão que tem como objetivo principal o desenvolvimento de uma organização focada no cliente, motivando e capacitando os seus colaboradores a alcançarem os objetivos organizacionais. Esta ferramenta pode contribuir para um maior e melhor desempenho e comprometimento organizacional, desde que usada de forma estratégica e adequada. Esta dissertação procura verificar se a existência de práticas de MI podem influenciar, de alguma forma, a motivação dos colaboradores contribuindo, igualmente, na retenção e fidelização dos mesmos, num contexto industrial, ao contrário do que é habitual nos estudos feitos até então, focados mais nos serviços pelas suas caraterísticas de maior contacto entre clientes e colaboradores. Aplicando a metodologia de estudo de caso na empresa Oliveira & Irmão, S.A., analisou-se um programa de marketing interno iniciado e desenvolvido durante o ano 2014 e que a empresa pretende manter, não esquecendo de uma forma geral de outras práticas de MI que a empresa faz questão de continuar a assinalar. Em termos globais, os resultados deste estudo mostram que a existência de práticas de marketing, aplicadas internamente, têm efeito no desenvolvimento de comportamentos e atitudes relacionadas com o trabalho por parte dos colaboradores e, que mesmo não sendo os principais fatores motivacionais, são complementares.

Performance Energética no contexto do sistema LEED

Com o aumento constante de procura de recursos naturais por parte dos vários setores da sociedade é urgente encontrar soluções para reduzir o seu consumo sem se travar a expansão demográfica que se tem vindo a sentir nos grandes centros urbanos. É através da implementação de medidas de sustentabilidade e pelo aumento da eficiência de utilização desses recursos que se tem vindo a combater esta tendência cada vez maior de consumismo global, sendo isto apenas possível com a implementação de ferramentas tecnológicas avançadas que permitem estabelecer limites ao considerado eficiente e premiando, em termos financeiros e de imagem de marketing, as entidades que o alcancem. O LEED é um sistema de certificação de sustentabilidade voluntário de edifícios residenciais e comerciais que estabelece métricas de comparação de parâmetros indicadores de consumos energéticos, hídricos e de materiais em todo o ciclo de vida do edifício e que tem vindo a ganhar destaque em crescendo a nível mundial. Esta dissertação teve como objetivo comparar a performance de consumo energético no âmbito do sistema LEED com a do sistema de certificação energética de edifícios nacional (SCE) de um grande edifício de serviços, estabelecendo um paralelismo de semelhanças e diferenças entre os dois e de avaliar os efeitos de potenciais medidas de eficiência energética e seus efeitos nas classificações de mérito obtidas em cada sistema. Os resultados obtidos na simulação que permitiu avaliar a performance foi muito satisfatório, tendo sido aproveitado pela empresa para efeitos de certificação LEED do edifício em estudo.

Types of embedded ties in buyer-supplier relationships and their combined effects on innovation performance

[EN] Purpose of the paper - This research analyzes the impact of three types of embedded ties, namely, specialized complementary resources, idiosyncratic investments, and knowledge sharing, on the innovation capacity of the firms. We also study the particularities of the Machine-Tool industry. Theoretical background – Our evaluation of the embedded buyer-supplier ties is based on the potential sources of relational rents proposed by Dyer and Sing (1998). We also draw on Uzzi and Lancaster (2003), Noordhoff et al. (2011), among others, to discuss the positive and negative aspects of embedded ties. Design/Methodology/Approach ‐ Using data from a survey of 202 European machine-tool firms acting as buyers and sellers, we propose and evaluate a Structural Equation model. Findings ‐ Only knowledge-sharing routines exert a significant positive effect on product innovation performance. Neither an increase in the idiosyncratic investments nor in complementary resources and capabilities enhance innovation performance. Also, knowledge-sharing routines mediate in the effect from idiosyncratic investments on innovation performance. Research Limitations. ‐ The machine tool industry has unique characteristics that make this generalization difficult. Also, there is considerable difficulty associated with testing more deeply the interrelations among these embedded ties in the long run. It is plausible to understand that these interrelations operate within a gradual process. Originality/Value/Contribution of Paper ‐ This research contributes to a better understanding of the role of embedded ties on innovativeness. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous international empirical research analyzing the mediation effects among specialized complementary resources, idiosyncratic investments and knowledge sharing, and their effects on the innovation capacity of firms.