Debates in Marketing Orientation
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INTRODUCTION THE BRIDGE BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND PRACTICE Debate 1: Is There a Bridge between Academia and Practice? Debate 2: Can Business Practices be Valued Equally as Scientific Work? UNDERSTANDING THE CUSTOMER Debate 1: Do Marketers Know Better than Customers? Debate 2: Can Marketers Create Needs? Debate 3: How Can Brands Decide Whether to Use Consumer Research or Not? Debate 4: Leaving No Choice to Customers by Selling Products through Legislation and Regulations or Not Debate 5: Should Brands Offer Solutions to Only a Few Segments or More? TRANSFORMATIONAL ISSUES Debate 1: Should We Still Focus on Similarities between Products to Classify Businesses in an Age of Innovation and Differentiation? Debate 2: Is Management Here to Stay? Debate 3: Are There This Many Leader Organizations? Debate 4: Why Do Organizations Replicate Actions of Leader Organizations? Debate 5: What Are the Tensions among Managerial Idiosyncrasies, Artistic Passion and Freedom, and Marketing Orientation? Debate 6: Is Marketing Another Business Function or Who Is the Owner of Marketing? Debate 7: How can Organizations Manage Operations from a Marketing or Branding Perspective? Debate 8: Should Organizations Refer to Managerial Experience or Personal Potential? Debate 9: How Required Sets of Marketing Skills Change in Time? Debate 10: How Can Organizations Employ a Time Orientation? Debate 11: Is Marketing Mix Still Relevant or Why Are Not New Perspectives among Widespread Practices? Debate 12: How Can Organizations Decide on Employing Conventional or Extraordinary ideas? Debate 13: Can In-house Competition, instead of In-house Collaboration, Make Organizations Successful? Debate 14: What Are the Tensions of Organizational Change? Debate 15: What Are the Tensions of Altering a Corporate Culture? Debate 16: How Can Organizations Translate Marketing Conceptions to Different Cultures? CONCLUSION REFERENCES
Bozkurt examines current fundamental problems and alternative solutions in marketing orientation, therefore customer orientation and the marketing concept through debates that support collaboration between academia and commerce to delight customers and develop superior brand equity. Among the debates are how brands can decide whether or not to use consumer research, leaving no choice to customers by selling products through legislation and regulations or not, how organizations can manage operations from a marketing or branding perspective, whether in-house competition rather than in-house collaboration make organizations successful, and how organizations can translate marketing conceptions to different cultures.