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Abstract
Sustainable marketing requires firms to proactively build, create, and develop specific capabilities. Given the scant theorizing on how firms develop capabilities for sustainable marketing effectiveness, this research systematically reviews research on (i) sustainable marketing and (ii) capabilities for sustainability and sustainable marketing. Specifically, on the foundations of resource-advantage theory of competition, resource-based view (RBV), capabilities-based view (CBV), dynamic capabilities view (DCV), and research on capability building, creation, and development, we review 115 articles (out of 658 results from initial search) from marketing and management journals to develop a theoretical framework of capability development for sustainable marketing. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the theoretical framework for sustainable marketing theory and a research agenda that also includes a call for developing adaptive marketing and market-shaping capabilities.
AMS ReviewBusiness, Management and Accounting-Marketing
CiteScore
14.60
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17
期刊介绍:
The AMS Review is positioned to be the premier journal in marketing that focuses exclusively on conceptual contributions across all sub-disciplines of marketing. It publishes articles that advance the development of market and marketing theory.The AMS Review is receptive to different philosophical perspectives and levels of analysis that range from micro to macro. Especially welcome are manuscripts that integrate research and theory from non-marketing disciplines such as management, sociology, economics, psychology, geography, anthropology, or other social sciences. Examples of suitable manuscripts include those incorporating conceptual and organizing frameworks or models, those extending, comparing, or critically evaluating existing theories, and those suggesting new or innovative theories. Comprehensive and integrative syntheses of research literatures (including quantitative and qualitative meta-analyses) are encouraged, as are paradigm-shifting manuscripts.Manuscripts that focus on purely descriptive literature reviews, proselytize research methods or techniques, or report empirical research findings will not be considered for publication. The AMS Review does not publish manuscripts focusing on practitioner advice or marketing education.