1. The Present Status of the Marketing Concept.
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McNamara, Carlton P.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL surveys ,MARKETING ,AMERICAN business enterprises ,INDUSTRIAL management ,DATA analysis ,STANDARD deviations ,PROFIT ,CONSUMER goods ,PRODUCT management - Abstract
The article discusses the implementation of the "marketing concept" in the United States. The author defines the marketing concept as a business management philosophy that is based on the acceptance in an organization of the need for customer orientation, profit orientation and a general recognition of the marketing's role of communicating the needs of the market. The study tests some basic assumptions surrounding the marketing concept, including a higher rate of acceptance of the concept in consumer goods corporations than in industrial corporations and also a higher rate of acceptance in large as opposed to medium and small sized corporations.
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- 1972
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