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Failure In Rural Entrepreneurial Marketing: The Otop Case In Thailand, Edward Kasabov, Pitchaya Panupattanapong Jan 2013

Failure In Rural Entrepreneurial Marketing: The Otop Case In Thailand, Edward Kasabov, Pitchaya Panupattanapong

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2013

Marketing scholarship continues to theorise about the significance of marketing resources to firm-level success, and resources are commonly viewed as the source of competitive advantage (Day & Wensley, 1988; Aaker, 1989; Webster, 1992; O’Donnell et al., 2002; Morgan el at., 2009). Businesses which effectively and efficiently deploy and exploit their market-based assets are assumed to be better placed at attaining superior business performance (Morgan & Vorhies, 2005). However, the input of firm resources to competitive advantage has generally been theorised and empirically examined in the context of large companies. Less frequent are discussions about resources in small firms and entrepreneurial …