Marketing capability—A key success factor in small business?
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Marketing Management
- Vol. 3 (2) , 185-203
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.1987.9964038
Abstract
This article focuses on the marketing problems of small manufacturing companies. The principal thesis is that marketing is generally perceived from too narrow a perspective. A more comprehensive and yet detailed view of marketing should benefit small business management. The authors develop a marketing capability framework which can be used as a qualitative tool for examining the “state‐of‐the‐art” of marketing in small manufacturing companies. This marketing capability framework is employed in examining the performance of 36 Finnish and Swedish companies using case study analysis.Keywords
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