Questions on International Marketing
1. What are the important issues that need to be addressed when conducting marketing research in a foreign country?
Cultural differences, racial differences, climatic differences, economic differences, religious differences, historical differences, language differences, differences in actual and potential target groups. 2. What are the factors that add to the complexity of international marketing research?
Ethnocentrism, polycentrism, regiocentrism, geocentrism. 3. What are the steps to be taken in coordinating international research?
Identifying and defining your problem
Developing your approach
Establishing research design and strategy
Collecting the data
Performing data analysis
Reporting and presentation 4. What are some ethical problems that marketing researchers face in designing and conducting field studies in different countries?
Some questions can be very strong or offensives to some culture, but this same questions can be very normal to another culture, so people who are thinking in doing a international marketing research should be very careful in how they structure the questions because everything depends in the culture.
5. Peter Philips, an engineering student, has designed an innovative piece of equipment to help the physically disabled to communicate. The equipment incorporates a system of electronic signals emitted with a slight turn of the head. This product is currently a success in the United States among health-care organizations. Peter wants to market this product in different countries. Acting as Mr. Phillips’ marketing/international business consultant, suggest a course of action to help Peter bring this product to the international market. (This is an extra question which will have more weight than the other questions)
Well, first of all peter has to choose which market he is going to hit, I mean in which country he would like to sell his product. Then he would have to make an international marketing
Cultural differences, racial differences, climatic differences, economic differences, religious differences, historical differences, language differences, differences in actual and potential target groups. 2. What are the factors that add to the complexity of international marketing research?
Ethnocentrism, polycentrism, regiocentrism, geocentrism. 3. What are the steps to be taken in coordinating international research?
Identifying and defining your problem
Developing your approach
Establishing research design and strategy
Collecting the data
Performing data analysis
Reporting and presentation 4. What are some ethical problems that marketing researchers face in designing and conducting field studies in different countries?
Some questions can be very strong or offensives to some culture, but this same questions can be very normal to another culture, so people who are thinking in doing a international marketing research should be very careful in how they structure the questions because everything depends in the culture.
5. Peter Philips, an engineering student, has designed an innovative piece of equipment to help the physically disabled to communicate. The equipment incorporates a system of electronic signals emitted with a slight turn of the head. This product is currently a success in the United States among health-care organizations. Peter wants to market this product in different countries. Acting as Mr. Phillips’ marketing/international business consultant, suggest a course of action to help Peter bring this product to the international market. (This is an extra question which will have more weight than the other questions)
Well, first of all peter has to choose which market he is going to hit, I mean in which country he would like to sell his product. Then he would have to make an international marketing