Product Orientation to Solution Orientation: A Journey Most industrial goods manufacturers and other organizations operating in B2B markets currently face testing times owing to bad economic conditions. While the economic downturn threatens the growth of a lot of these B2B businesses‚ other factors have also emerged that have contributed to this situation of the “perfect storm”. Increased price competition from the traditional low-labour countries‚ increased product quality levels from these same
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Overview: Florence Kluckhohn Value Orientations R.S. Zaharna‚ Ed.D. American University In her seminal paper "Dominant and Variant Value Orientations‚" Florence Kluckhohn outlined five basic human problems that were common to all peoples at all times and all places (1953‚ p. 346). The value orientations Kluckhohn identified speak to the assumptions that we make about ourselves and our relationship to the world‚ which in turn‚ guide our actions. Table 1 (found at the END of this piece) provides
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of processes for creating‚ communicating‚ and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit tChapter 1: An Overview of Marketing Learning Objectives 1 Define the term "marketing" Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating‚ communicating‚ and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. 2 Describe four marketing management philosophies
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The Indian culture referring to the Seven Dimensions of Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (THT) In order to explain the Indian culture according to THT´s cultural dimension it is necessary to have some general information in the back of the head. India is a Democratic Republic consisting out of 26 states each having an own government.( Kobayashi-Hillary‚Mark: 2004: 6) India belongs to the Commonwealth of nations due to the fact that it has been a British colony in the 19th century. This association
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www.ccsenet.org/ijms International Journal of Marketing Studies Vol. 4‚ No. 3; June 2012 The Effect of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance Eric T. Micheels (Corresponding author) Assisstant Professor‚ Department of Bioresource Policy‚ Business & Economics University of Saskatchewan‚ Canada E-mail: etm550@mail.usask.ca Hamish Gow Professor of Agribusiness‚ College of Business‚ Massey University‚ New Zealand E-mail: h.r.gow@massey.ac.nz Received: February 6‚ 2012 doi:10
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instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjmm20 From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector a Johan Gromark & Frans Melin a b Lund University‚ Sweden b Lund University‚ Sweden Published online: 02 Sep 2013. To cite this article: Johan Gromark & Frans Melin (2013) From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector‚ Journal of Marketing Management‚ 29:9-10‚ 1099-1123‚ DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2013.812134
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Sexual orientation includes three components. First sexual behavior‚ refers to specific acts that are defined as sexual by the individual and society. Humans are born capable of wide variety of sexual behaviors. Sexual behavior is not synonymous with sexual ordination. People with homosexual orientation can engage in heterosexual behavior and yet remain homosexual‚ and heterosexual persons can engage in homosexual acts without changing their sexual orientation. The second component of sexual orientation
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This essay will look into sexual orientation. This essay will identify and define sexual orientation focusing on homosexuality. It will further provide an overview of homosexuality and a summary. I will discuss my initial opinions‚ attitudes‚ biases and assumptions about sexual orientation and demonstrate how my awareness of this element of diversity increased throughout the module. I will further address how this awareness will impact my ability to counsel more competently‚ followed by a conclusion
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination Our declaration of independence states that all men are created equal. However there is still discrimination based on people’s sexual orientation. People discriminate towards people’s sexual orientation because of the supposed threat to the institute of marriage‚ as well; there is still the debate to whether or not sexual orientation is biological. It is still bad because discrimination kills. According to the article Sexual Orientation Discrimination‚ there are
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the years sexual orientation has been an issue in our society. Many people are against homosexuality and bisexuality. Sexual orientation is generally one of three main categories‚ heterosexual‚ homosexual‚ or bisexual. Heterosexual is someone who is attracted to members of the opposite sex. A homosexual is someone that is attracted to members of the same sex. And‚ a bisexual person is one that is attracted to members of both sexes. There are other categories of sexual orientation. Some people could
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