Title: Military transformations and marketing strategy craftsmanship

Authors: Tomaz Kolar

Addresses: Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploscad 17, 1101 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract: Marketing often borrows strategic approaches from the military field. Owing to the changed societal context and nature of warfare encounters, immense transformations are taking place in military doctrine and strategy. In order to discuss the possible implications of these transformations for marketing strategy, we propose a new framework. The possible implications for more effective marketing strategies are firstly discussed along a move to a post-trinitarian society and secondly along an intelligence-ideology dimension, followed by implications for marketing strategy craftsmanship.

Keywords: military transformations; marketing strategy; societal context; effectiveness; warfare marketing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2007.013458

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2007 Vol.4 No.5, pp.552 - 561

Published online: 30 Apr 2007 *

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