Advances in Global Marketing

A Research Anthology

Leonidas C. Leonidou, Constantine S. Katsikeas, Saeed Samiee, Bilge Aykol

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319613840
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319613857
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

This book of expert contributions provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary global marketing issues under different international business settings. It covers a wide array of key areas of international marketing research such as cross-cultural consumer behavior, foreign market entry modes, international entrepreneurship, international marketing strategy, country-of-origin effects, internationalization process, international buyer-seller relationships, corporate social responsibility, and international marketing performance.  With both theoretical and empirical contributions by prominent researchers from all over the world, the book highlights and advances extant knowledge on global marketing and offers recommendations for future research.  It builds a useful reference for scholars, doctoral researchers, and senior students in international marketing/business.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• Current Status of International Marketing Research
• 1 International Marketing Research: A State-of-the-Art Review and the Way Forward
• International Market Engagement
• 2 ‘Lean Start-Up’ Practices: Initial Internationalization and Evolving Business Models
• 3 Reverse Internationalization: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
• External Agents and International Marketing
• 4 The Roles of INVs and Their Agents in the Organization of Marketing Tasks
• 5 Home Country Institutional Agents (HCIAs) as Boundary Spanners Supporting SME Internationalization
• International Marketing and Innovation
• 6 Exploring Informal and Formal Learning Activities as Enablers of Learning-by-Exporting in Small and Medium Sized Firms
• 7 Strengthening Innovation for Greater Exporting: A Strategic Path for Developing Country Firms
• 8 Antecedents, Marketing Capabilities Contingencies and Performance Consequences of Innovative Imitation Orientation: A Resource Orchestration Perspective
• International Customer Behavior
• 9 Comparative Thick Description: Articulating Similarities and Differences in Local Beer Consumption Experience
• 10 Face Concerns and Purchase Intentions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Targeting and Withdrawing From Foreign Markets
• 11 The VCW-Value Creation Wheel: A Framework for Market Selection and Global Growth
• 12 Market Withdrawal, International Orientation and International Marketing: Effects on SME Performance in Foreign Markets
• Strategic Issues in International Marketing
• 13 Integration Mechanisms as Enablers of International Standardized Strategies
• 14 Patterns of SME’s Marketing Mix Combinations and Their Characteristics in Export Markets
• 15 Global Sourcing Strategy: An Evolution in Global Production and Sourcing Rationalization
• International Buyer-Seller Relationships
• 16 Foreignness in Export and Import Social Relationships: The Liability of Psychic Distance
• 17 International Franchising Relationships
• Special Issues in International Marketing
• 18 Intercultural Service Encounters (ICSEs): Challenges and Opportunities for International Services Marketers
• 19 Ethics, Sustainability, and Culture: A Review and Directions for Research