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Published in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 1/2011

01-02-2011

Green marketing strategies: an examination of stakeholders and the opportunities they present

Authors: J. Joseph Cronin Jr, Jeffery S. Smith, Mark R. Gleim, Edward Ramirez, Jennifer Dawn Martinez

Published in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

As green marketing strategies become increasingly more important to firms adhering to a triple-bottom line performance evaluation, the present research seeks to better understand the role of “green” as a marketing strategy. Through an integration of the marketing, management, and operations literatures, an investigative framework is generated that identifies the various stakeholders potentially impacted through the environmentally friendly efforts of a firm. Specifically, the inter-connected nature of the core business disciplines of marketing, management (both strategy and human resources), and operations are examined as controllable functions within an organization from which strategies can be enacted to affect a firm’s stakeholders. The prior research in these areas is examined to identify potential research opportunities in marketing while also offering a series of representative research questions that can help guide future research in marketing.

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Footnotes
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For the remainder of the paper, we use the triple-bottom line and people/profit/planet (or 3P) concepts interchangeably.
 
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Metadata
Title
Green marketing strategies: an examination of stakeholders and the opportunities they present
Authors
J. Joseph Cronin Jr
Jeffery S. Smith
Mark R. Gleim
Edward Ramirez
Jennifer Dawn Martinez
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0092-0703
Electronic ISSN: 1552-7824
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-010-0227-0

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