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The internationalization of digital platform firms: the platform-OLI (P-OLI) framework 数字平台公司的国际化:平台-OLI(P-OLI)框架
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1108/imr-08-2023-0182
Ankit Surana, Meena Chavan, Vikas Kumar, Francesco Chirico
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Price transparency in international retailing on digital platforms 数字平台上国际零售业的价格透明度
IF 4.8 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1108/imr-12-2023-0352
Kacy Kim, Yuhosua Ryoo, Srdan Zdravkovic, Sukki Yoon
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How to successfully adapt distribution strategy in exporting? The moderating effects of commitment and responsiveness 如何成功调整出口分销战略?承诺和反应能力的调节作用
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1108/imr-06-2023-0123
Carlos M.P. Sousa, Emilio Ruzo-Sanmartín, Concepción Varela-Neira, Qun Tan
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Social media platforms use in startups’ international marketing strategies: a multiple case study 社交媒体平台在初创企业国际营销战略中的应用:多案例研究
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1108/imr-09-2023-0222
Mirko Olivieri, Ginevra Testa
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Ecolabel persuasion effect across cultures: a comprehensive meta-analysis 生态标签在不同文化中的说服效果:综合荟萃分析
IF 4.8 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1108/imr-10-2023-0293
Franklin Velasco, Omar S. Itani, Paul Cajina
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Understanding SMEs’ internationalization through digital platforms: the role of knowledge sharing and consumer education 通过数字平台了解中小企业的国际化:知识共享和消费者教育的作用
IF 4.8 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1108/imr-09-2023-0252
Lala Hu, Diana A. Filipescu, Albena Pergelova
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A meaning-making perspective on digital ridesharing platforms in underdeveloped markets 从意义建构角度看欠发达市场中的数字共享乘车平台
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/imr-08-2023-0193
Karen Amissah, David Sarpong, Derrick Boakye, David John Carrington
{"title":"A meaning-making perspective on digital ridesharing platforms in underdeveloped markets","authors":"Karen Amissah, David Sarpong, Derrick Boakye, David John Carrington","doi":"10.1108/imr-08-2023-0193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-08-2023-0193","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Purpose</h3>\u0000<p>The digital platform-based sharing economy has become ubiquitous all over the world. In this paper, we explore how market actors’ conflicting interpretations of digital platforms’ business models give form and shape value co-creation and capture practices in contexts marked by weak institutions and underdeveloped markets.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>\u0000<p>Integrating insights from the broader literature on digital platforms and the contemporary turn to “meaning-making” in social theory, we adopt a problematization method to unpack the collective contest over the interpretation of value co-creation and capture from ridesharing platforms in contexts marked by weak institutions and underdeveloped markets.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Findings</h3>\u0000<p>Collective contest over the interpretation of digital business models may give rise to competing meanings that may enable (or impede) digital platform providers’ ability to co-create and capture value. We present an integrative framework that delineates how firms caught up in such collective contests in contexts marked by weak institutions and underdeveloped markets may utilise such conditions as marketing resources to reset their organising logic in ways that reconcile the conflicting perspectives.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Practical implications</h3>\u0000<p>The paper presents propositions constituting a contribution to a meaning-making perspective on ridesharing digital platforms by offering insights into how digital business models could potentially be localised and adapted to address and align with the peculiarities of contexts. It goes further to present a theoretical model to extend our understanding of the different sources of contestation of meaning of digital platforms.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Originality/value</h3>\u0000<p>The meaning-making perspective on digital platforms extends our understanding of how the collective contest over interpretations of value co-creation and capture may offer a set of contradictory frames that yield possibilities for ridesharing platform providers, and their users, to assimilate the organising logic of digital business models into new categories of understanding.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->","PeriodicalId":14456,"journal":{"name":"International Marketing Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141566587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Exploring authenticity meanings in the global-local continuum: semiotic insights from the Måneskin case 探索全球-地方连续体中的真实性含义:从马内斯金案例中获得的符号学启示
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1108/imr-10-2023-0274
Matteo Corciolani
{"title":"Exploring authenticity meanings in the global-local continuum: semiotic insights from the Måneskin case","authors":"Matteo Corciolani","doi":"10.1108/imr-10-2023-0274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-10-2023-0274","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Purpose</h3>\u0000<p>This article explores brand positioning and authenticity within the global-local continuum, utilizing the evolution of the Italian rock band, Måneskin, as a case study.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>\u0000<p>Employing Greimas’s (1987) semiotic framework, I analyze social media and media articles on Måneskin’s success, unveiling consumer perceptions of global, local and intermediate brand positionings and related authenticity dimensions. I particularly uncover a narrative centered on “global” versus “local” brand positioning and their counterparts (i.e. “not global” and “not local”), forming a semiotic square.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Findings</h3>\u0000<p>In the “global” perception, the band is evaluated in terms of conforming to global standards, while, in the “local” understanding, the emphasis shifts to connections to local roots. In the “glocalization” perspective (global and local), the band’s activities are assessed concerning an integration between global conformity and local connections. The “glalienation” viewpoint (neither global nor local) is related to consistency, in the sense of being unique and avoiding a commitment to either global or local values. The data also highlight issues of inconsistency regarding brand positioning’s contradictions, such as the band’s incoherently merging local and non-local elements.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Originality/value</h3>\u0000<p>The proposed structural semiotics approach enriches previous theories by examining authenticity within global-local dynamics, offering insights into various authenticity dimensions and their interplay. It underlines shifts in authenticity perceptions and challenges binary brand positioning, advocating for strategic placement across the global-local continuum. Moreover, it emphasizes leveraging cultural elements and semiotics to effectively communicate authenticity.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->","PeriodicalId":14456,"journal":{"name":"International Marketing Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Examining the relationship of country-level digital ad spend and cross-border e-commerce buyers under cultural and political globalization 研究文化和政治全球化下国家层面的数字广告支出与跨境电子商务买家之间的关系
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1108/imr-01-2024-0027
Hannah S. Lee, Göksel Yalcinkaya, David A. Griffith
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Export market orientation, performance and international partner selection: word-of-mouth referral versus direct contact 出口市场导向、绩效和国际合作伙伴选择:口碑推荐与直接接触
IF 5 3区 管理学
International Marketing Review Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1108/imr-01-2024-0008
Ryuta Ishii, Mai Kikumori
{"title":"Export market orientation, performance and international partner selection: word-of-mouth referral versus direct contact","authors":"Ryuta Ishii, Mai Kikumori","doi":"10.1108/imr-01-2024-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-01-2024-0008","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Purpose</h3>\u0000<p>Export market orientation can be broadly divided into intelligence (generation and dissemination) and responsiveness activities. Although previous studies assess intelligence and responsiveness activities, little is known about what type of international channel partner acts as an enabling condition for the impact of these activities on export venture performance. This study aims to examine the extent to which the selection of international channel partners through word-of-mouth referrals versus direct contacts affects the benefits of intelligence and responsiveness activities.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>\u0000<p>Data were collected from 246 exporting manufacturers in Japan. To test the hypotheses, we conducted regression analyses using a subjective performance measure at the venture level. We also performed a post hoc analysis using objective performance measure at the function level.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Findings</h3>\u0000<p>We find that the extent to which international channel partners are selected through word-of-mouth referrals has a moderating role in the export market-oriented activities–performance linkages. Specifically, it acts as an enabling condition for intelligence activity and a disenabling condition for responsiveness activity.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->\u0000<h3>Originality/value</h3>\u0000<p>This study contributes to a better understanding of export market orientation by classifying it into intelligence and responsiveness activities and providing empirical evidence on their different interaction effects with partner selection. It also contributes to the elaboration of agency theory by offering insights into the fit between task characteristics and contract type. Our study is critical for business managers as it suggests guidelines for manufacturing exporters engaging in export market-oriented behaviors and export channel management.</p><!--/ Abstract__block -->","PeriodicalId":14456,"journal":{"name":"International Marketing Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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