Isobel Doole
Teoksen International Marketing Strategy: Analysis, Development and Implementation tekijä
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Isobel Doole is Professor of International Marketing at Sheffield Hallam University and a Senior Examiner at the Post Graduate Professional Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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There are some nice diagrams and charts which help in learning. For example. Figure 5.2 showing the geographical development of SME's. I also rather liked Hofstede's five cultural dimensions: individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and Confucianism (even though Confucianism sits rather uncomfortably in this list). One problem with labelling whole countries against this framework is that it ignores huge differences within the countries. For example, the typical difference between city and country. And the difference between university educated and uneducated. We've recently observed the phenomena of Donald Trump, in the USA, carrying 72 million of his fellow Americans along to vote for him....a high proportion of them from the religious right ....presumably believing in miracles ...and certainly a lot of them open to conspiracy theories. They appear to be very different to about 65% of the voters in New York who voted for the Democrats. The basic point being that one needs to be very careful in assigning something like a "cultural measurement" to a country and it would certainly be preferable to target reasonably uniform sub groups within a country who share cultural values. Middle America might have more in common with the evangelicals in Brazil than with Americans in San Franciso or New York.
I also liked Fig 2.2 which is a deceptively simple graphic of market entry barriers, including; tariffs, quantitative restrictions and restrictive practices. I think, frequently the international debate has simply been about tariffs when other measures can have much greater impact on trade.
And I liked Figures 7.1 and 7.2 showing market entry methods and levels of involvement required plus inherent risk in entering foreign markets. (I've just wasted 40 min looking for something similar which I developed myself and used but couldn't find it. However, I have incorporated the same concept into the book I wrote for the International Trade Organisation: "Entering New Market: A guide for trade representatives. 2013." (See Figure 5 in that book)).
In fact, there is a lot to like about the current book and I'm happy to give it 4.5 stars.… (lisätietoja)