• 융합정보논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2017

제 4차 산업혁명 시대로 접어들면서 융합 신제품들이 대거 등장하고 있지만 치열한 경쟁으로 인해 일부 제품을 제외하곤 많은 제품들이 출시와 동시에 시장에서 사라지고 있다. 특히 중소기업인 경우 경영상 여력이 많지 않아 제품 기획 시 구체적인 마케팅전략을 고려하지 않고 성능과 품질에만 집중하는 경우가 많다. 이러한 마케팅전략이 융합 신제품 기획 시 포함되지 않는다면 초기 및 주류 시장 진입에 많은 어려움을 겪을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 초기시장에서 주류시장으로 넘어가는 과정에서 발생할 수 있는 위험요소를 캐즘마케팅 관점으로 살펴보았다. 이를 통해 융합 신제품 출시와 동시에 캐즘을 뛰어넘도록 캐즘마케팅 및 소셜네트워크 관점으로 분석한 후 마케팅 전략방안 네 가지를 제시 하였다. 이들 전략은 융합 신제품을 주류시장으로 진입시킬 때 치열한 경쟁에서 시장선점 우위의 포지셔닝을 취하고자하는 중소기업에 유용할 것이다.

• 마케팅과학연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.5-16
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• 2009

Against the backdrop of the increasing trend towards economic globalisation, many international firms are indicating that decisions on how to enter foreign markets remains one of the key strategic challenges confronting them. Despite the rich body of literature on the topic, the fact that these challenges have continued to dominate global marketing strategy discourses point to someevident lacunae. Accordingly, this paper considers the variables, categorised in terms of firm contexts (standardisation, market research, competition, structure, competitive advantage) and host country-contexts (economic development, cultural differences, regulation and political risk), which influence the degree of involvement of UK companies in overseas markets. Following hypotheses were drawn from literature review: H1: The greater the level of competition, the higher the degree of involvement in the overseas market. H2: The more centralised the firm's organisation structure, the higher the degree of involvement in the overseas market. H3a: The adoption of a low cost-approach to competitive advantage will lead to a higher degree of involvement. H3b: The adoption of an innovation-approach to competitive advantage will lead to a higher degree of involvement. H3c: The adoption of a market research approach to competitive advantages will lead to a higher degree of involvement. H3d: The adoption of a breadth of strategic target-approach to competitive advantage will lead to a lower degree of involvement. H4: The higher the degree of standardisation of the international marketing mix the higher the degree of involvement. H5: The greater the degree of economic development in the host market, the higher the degree of involvement. H6: The greater the cultural differences between home and host countries, the lower the degree of involvement. H7: The greater the difference in regulations between the home country and the host country, the lower the degree of involvement. H8: The higher the political risk in the host country, the lower the degree of involvement. A questionnaire instrument was constructed using, wherever possible, validated measures of the concepts to serve the aims of this study. Following two sets of mailings, 112 usable completed questionnaires were returned. Correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze data. Statistically, the paper suggests that factors relating to the level of competition, competitive advantages and economic development are strong in influencing foreign market involvements. On the other hand, unexpectedly, cultural factors (especially individualism/collectivism and low and high power distance dimensions) proved to have weak moderating effects. The reason for this, in part, is due to the pervading forces of globalisation and the attendant effect on global marketing. This paper has contributed to the general literature in a way that point to two mainimplications. First, with respect to research on national systems, the study may hold out some important lessons especially for developing nations. Most of these nations are known to be actively seeking to understand what it takes to attract foreign direct investment, expand domestic market and move their economies from the margin to the mainstream global economy. Second, it should be realised that competitive conditions remain in constant flux (even in mature industries and mature economies). This implies that a range of home country factors may be as important as host country factors in explaining firms' strategic moves and the degree of foreign market involvement. Further research can consider the impact of the home country environment on foreign market involvement decisions. Such an investigation will potentially provide further perspectives not only on the influence of national origin but also how home country effects are confounded with industry effects.