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Sustainable export marketing strategy fit and performance

Zeriti, Athina, Robson, Matthew J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8642-9980, Spyropoulou, Stavroula and Leonidou, Constantinos N. 2014. Sustainable export marketing strategy fit and performance. Journal of International Marketing 22 (4) , pp. 44-66. 10.1509/jim.14.0063

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Abstract

Despite the growing global importance of sustainability issues, scant research has examined marketing strategy sustain-ability issues in international settings. Although significant prior work has examined drivers and performance consequences of adaptation/standardization of marketing strategies in international markets, researchers have yet to apply this avenue of inquiry to sustainable marketing strategies. Building on contingency theory and the concept of strategic fit, the authors develop a model of drivers of sustainable export marketing strategy adaptation and explore the circumstances under which such a strategy affects export performance. Using a sample of U.K. exporters, they find that various macro- and microenvironmental factors are responsible for sustainable export marketing strategy adaptation, which shapes the nature of sustainable export marketing strategy fit and its export venture performance outcomes. The results indicate that sustainable export marketing strategy adaptation is the outcome of the differences between home and export markets in terms of economic and technological conditions, competitive intensity, customer characteristics, and stakeholder pressures. Moreover, the performance relevance of sustainable export marketing strategy adaptation requires adequate fit with these macro- and microenvironmental factors.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISSN: 1069-031X
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 2 May 2019
Date of Acceptance: 1 November 2014
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2023 22:25
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/122138

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