A dynamic model of channel member strategies for marketing expenditures

A dynamic model of channel member strategies for marketing expenditures

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Article ID: iaor1993489
Country: United States
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 168
End Page Number: 188
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Journal: Marketing Science
Authors: ,
Keywords: control processes, economics, distribution, optimization
Abstract:

The authors develop a dynamic model for determining the equilibrium marketing effort levels for a manufacturer and a retailer in a two-member marketing channel. The existence of carry-over effects of marketing effort of channel members leads to an accumulation of goodwill for them over time. This necessitates modeling the relationships between the effort and channel sales in a dynamic framework as goodwill accumulation creates an incentive for channel members to invest in marketing effort in order to obtain future benefits. By explicitly recognizing that each member’s decision is affected by the other’s actions, the authors derive their equilibrium effort levels over time when they follow either a coordinated or an uncoordinated strategy and also determine the profit implications of these strategies for the channel members. They examine the effect of channel dynamics on the difference in profits resulting from following coordinated as opposed to uncoordinated strategies and identify situations in which this profit differential provides an incentive for channel members to coordinate their marketing efforts. Further, the authors derive empirically testable hypotheses that provide a basis for predicting when channel coordination would take place in a dynamic context.

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