Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide in Marketing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1370-1385
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Practice

In recent years, marketing practice has increased in complexity, becoming more challenging. This situation demands that marketing professionals be better prepared to face the difficulties of the market. Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This chapter considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The chapter closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the chapter offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide in Marketing

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Practice

In recent years, marketing practice has increased in complexity, becoming more challenging. This situation demands that marketing professionals be better prepared to face the difficulties of the market. Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This chapter considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The chapter closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the chapter offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

The Role of Business Schools in Marketing Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Inductive Approach

Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This article considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The article closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the article suggests the adoption of an inductive approach to research and offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

The Role of Business Schools in Marketing Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Inductive Approach

Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This article considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The article closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the article suggests the adoption of an inductive approach to research and offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

NEOMODERNISM: TOWARDS A PARADIGM SHIFT IN MARKETING

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-180
Author(s):  
Metin TOPTAÅž
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory

The purpose of this paper was to address the paradigm shift in the philosophy of marketing science. This shift from modernism to postmodernism and now to neomodernism has been providing new perspectives in terms of the generation of knowledge related to marketing theory and practice as well as marketing research. Neomodernism reflects a combination of commonly appreciated facets of the previous paradigms (e.g. Modernism and Postmodernism), and thus presents a more mature and comprehensive perspective. In the paper, first, the emergence of Neomodernism was depicted in a historical point of view, and second, its possible implications for the certain aspects of marketing research, theory and practice were discussed.

scholarly journals Historical Marketing Research – Barriers to Conducting it and its Importance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Jacek Kamiński
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Practice Marketing

Abstract Subject and purpose of work: The article is devoted to historical marketing research. Its purpose is to identify barriers to conducting historical marketing research and to characterize the significance of this type of research. Materials and methods: The observations contained in the article were formulated on the basis of a review, analysis, synthesis and critical evaluation of the literature in the field of marketing. Results: The article highlights the ahistorical attitude of marketing discipline also with reference to research in the area of marketing. Barriers to conducting this type of research were discussed and the significance of historical research was pointed out.. The barriers were characterized based on the properties of historical research as well as the features of practice and marketing theory. The problem is discussed from the point of view of marketing practice, marketing theory, the status of marketing as a science, the role of historical research as a critical approach in the science of marketing, and historical analysis of phenomena as a social perspective. The significance of historical marketing research for teaching marketing issues is underlined. Conclusions: The main conclusion of the analysis is that historical research on marketing plays a particularly significant role, despite the fact that it is found on the margins of currently undertaken issues and does not belong to the mainstream marketing. As a result, it is rarely discussed in marketing textbooks.

Something old, something new: Enabled theory building in qualitative marketing research

2021 ◽  
pp. 147059312110322
Author(s):  
Pierre-Yann Dolbec ◽  
Eileen Fischer ◽  
Robin Canniford
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Research ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analytical Tools

“Enabled theorizing” is a common practice in marketing scholarship. Nevertheless, this practice has recently been criticized for constraining the creation of novel theory. To advance this conversation, we conduct a grounded analysis of papers that feature enabled theorizing with the aim of describing and analyzing how enabled theorizing is practiced. Our analysis suggests that enabled theorizing marries data with analytical tools and ontological perspectives in ways that advance ongoing conversations in marketing theory and practice, as well as informing policy and methods. Based on interviews with marketing and consumer research scholars who practice enabled theorizing, we explain how researchers use enabling theories to shape research projects, how researchers select enabling lenses, and how they negotiate the review process. We discuss the implications of our analyses for theory-building in our field, and we question the notion of originality in relation to theory more generally.

scholarly journals A new proximity function generating the best known iteration bounds for both large-update and small-update interior-point methods

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyvan Aminis ◽  
Arash Haseli
Keyword(s):  
Interior Point ◽  
Interior Point Methods ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Linear Optimization ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Barrier Functions ◽  
Iteration Bound ◽  
Linear Optimization Problems

AbstractInterior-Point Methods (IPMs) are not only very effective in practice for solving linear optimization problems but also have polynomial-time complexity. Despite the practical efficiency of large-update algorithms, from a theoretical point of view, these algorithms have a weaker iteration bound with respect to small-update algorithms. In fact, there is a significant gap between theory and practice for large-update algorithms. By introducing self-regular barrier functions, Peng, Roos and Terlaky improved this gap up to a factor of log n. However, checking these self-regular functions is not simple and proofs of theorems involving these functions are very complicated. Roos el al. by presenting a new class of barrier functions which are not necessarily self-regular, achieved very good results through some much simpler theorems. In this paper we introduce a new kernel function in this class which yields the best known complexity bound, both for large-update and small-update methods.

scholarly journals Customer Experience: Are We Measuring the Right Things?

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Maklan ◽  
Philipp Klaus
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Service Marketing ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
The Right

Marketing theory and practice evolved dramatically through a series of transformations from products to services and, recently, customer experiences. Each stage has its own perspective on marketing's purpose, the nature of customer value, and measurements that calibrate performance and guide managerial decisions. The latter is of particular interest to market researchers. Measurement (research) typically lags behind changes in marketing theory due to institutional factors and the time it takes for new practices to diffuse. The authors posit that firms still measure customer experience against criteria more suited to evaluating product and service marketing. Research practice seems rooted in 1990s notions of service quality, itself an outgrowth of total quality management (TQM) originating in manufacturing during the 1980s. The authors argue that market researchers will serve their organisations and customers better if they take an active role in updating the customer experience measurement commensurate with advances in the conceptualisation of that which firms offer customers.

scholarly journals Customer Perception of CSR Activities: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Russian Consumers

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim Potepkin ◽  
Olga Firsanova
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Consumer Loyalty ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Customer Reaction

Abstract This study estimates the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on customer loyalty based on the data collected during marketing research on consumer behavior in Finnish and Russian markets of dietary supplements. Concretely, the author examines the influence of perceived CSR on customer loyalty taking into account trust factor. A key focus of this work is a comparison of Finnish and Russian customer responses as well as investigation the “country” factor in customer CSR perception and its correlation with consumer loyalty and trust. In general, the findings show similarity of customer reaction to CSR initiatives in both countries. At the same time, the study illustrates some differences in Finnish and Russian customer perception and evaluating CSR level. Regarding practical issues, the author relates arguments for implementation CSR activities as a significant factor of forming customer loyalty in the two countries. The article gives implications for marketing theory and practice.

scholarly journals A Longitudinal Study of the Turkish Marketing Academia: What Has Changed and What Has Not in a Decade?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
B. Zafer Erdoğan ◽  
Semra Doğan ◽  
M. Sami İşlek
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Almost All

This article compares the findings of two surveys of the Turkish marketing academia undertaken in 2007 and in 2016. As a follow up replicating Erdogan and Uzkurt's study (2007), this 2016 study aims to reveal the current status and problems of the marketing academia in Turkey as an emerging country, by adding a longitudinal dimension. The same questionnaire was used for both surveys carried out. The data collection procedure included both an online survey and a drop-and-collect survey, with the participation of faculty members with all types of academic titles working in the Turkish marketing academia. 108 and 132 usable questionnaires were collected in 2007 and 2016, respectively. The research findings indicate that the problems experienced have remained fairly similar in almost all dimensions, while the publication performance has increased during this period. The findings about research and teaching interests indicate that marketing academics primarily concentrate on such fields as consumer behavior, marketing research and marketing strategy. The teaching and research interests have also differed depending on global trends and changes in tenure standards in the Turkish marketing academia. Another key finding regarding the issues of the field, with vital implications for marketing education, is the perceived gap between marketing theory and practice. The fundamental issue related to education is cited as the decreasing student proficiency in Turkey.

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