Marketing strategy : planning and implementation
/ Orville C. Walker, Harper W. Boyd, Jean-Claude Larréché
- Homewood : Irwin, 1992.
- xxiv, 503 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Irwin series in marketing .
Includes index.
Sect. 1: Introduction to Strategy. 1: The strategic role of marketing. 2: Corporate strategy decisions. 3: Business strategies and their marketing implications Sect. 2: Opportunity Analysis. 4: Environmental analysis. 5: Industry dynamics and strategic change. 6: Market targeting. 7: Positioning decisions Sect. 3: Formulating Marketing Strategies. 8: Marketing strategies for new-market entries. 9: Strategies for growth markets. 10: Strategies for mature and declining markets. 11: International marketing strategy Sect. 4: Implementation and Control. 12: Implementing business and marketing strategies. 13: Controlling marketing strategies and programs Epilog: Card wars: Competition heats up in the credit-card industry Appendix: Major sources of competitive intelligence and the marketplace Sect. 5: The Samar Case. SAMAR: Strategic allocation of marketing resources