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Instituting the Marketing Concept in a Multinational Setting: The Role of National Culture

Cheryl Nakata

University of Illinois at Chicago

K. Sivakumar

Lehigh University

A growing concern among international marketing managers is how to increase the market orientation and thereby performance of their transnational organizations. This study broaches this issue by investigating how the marketing concept, the heart of the market orientation, may be established in a multinational setting and the effects of national culture on that process. From a wide array of literature, the authors construct a theoretical framework and propositions on how global organizations may transform this philosophy from an abstract platitude to an operational reality. Their findings suggest that the process consists of complex, interdependent steps—interpretation, adoption, and implementation of the marketing concept. Cultural values shape interpretation and facilitate or impede adoption and implementation. The overall framework and findings can be used to guide institutionalization of the marketing concept across the organizational span, in particular by anticipating culture-based reactions from international subsidiaries.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, 255-276 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/03079459994623
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