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Advertising Intensity and R&D Intensity: Differences across Industries and Their Impact on Firm's Performance

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  • Trina Larsen Andras

    (Department of Marketing, Drexel University, U.S.A.)

  • Srini S. Srinivasan

    (Department of Marketing, Drexel University, U.S.A.)

Abstract

To compete successfully in the market place, organizations optimally utilize their inputs and benchmark their key inputs and outputs against other successful firms. Two of the key inputs that organizations should effectively manage are marketing expenses and R&D expenses. In this research, we investigate a) if these two inputs systematically vary across consumer product and manufacturing product organizations, and b) if these two factors have an impact on firm's performance. We find that consumer product organizations have higher advertising intensity than manufacturing product organizations. However, manufacturing product organizations have higher R&D intensity than consumer product organizations. Findings of this research also reveal that advertising intensity and R&D intensity are positively related to firm profit margins.

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  • Trina Larsen Andras & Srini S. Srinivasan, 2003. "Advertising Intensity and R&D Intensity: Differences across Industries and Their Impact on Firm's Performance," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 2(2), pages 167-176, August.
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    Keywords

    marketing expenditures; R&D expenditures; firm's performance;
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    JEL classification:

    • M30 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - General
    • M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing
    • M37 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Advertising

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