Strategicmarketingandmarketingstrategy:domain,definition,fundamentalissuesandfoundationalpremisesIntroductionTheevolutionofstrategicmarketingasafieldofstudy,overthepastfewdecades,canbeviewedasaconfluenceofperspectives,paradigms,theories,concepts,frameworks,principles,methods,modelsandmetricsfromanumberofrelatedfieldsofstudy,chiefamongthembeingmarketing,strategicmanagementandindustrialorganization(IO)economics
Althoughthecumulativebodyofliteratureisindicativeofsignificantadvancesalonganumberoffronts(substantive,theoreticalandmethodological),duringalmosteverydecade,marketingscholarshavevoicedconcernsregardingthestateoffield(e
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Forinstance,voicingconcernsovermarketing’slossofinfluenceintheacademicdiscourseaboutstrategy,Day(1992,p
324)noted:“W