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A Note on Multi-Regional Marketing

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  • Charles A. Ingene

    (University of Washington, School of Business, DJ-10, Seattle, Washington 98195)

  • Mark E. Parry

    (University of Virginia, Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, Box 6550, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-6550)

Abstract

This paper examines the profit maximizing behavior of a vertically integrated firm that operates in "n" geographically distinct regions. A pair of alternative managerial decision scenarios are considered. In one scenario, all marketing mix variables are manipulated at the regional level, so that each region may choose different levels of each marketing variable. In the second scenario, one marketing variable is manipulated "globally," so that its level is identical in all regions. The first scenario generates an n-region version of the "Dorfman-Steiner" first-order conditions for profit maximization. However, under some cost structures the profits associated with this Dorfman-Steiner scenario are dominated by those associated with the second, "Global-Regional" scenario. This second scenario yields an optimal solution in which the global marketing variable may have a negative marginal impact on sales in some regions. As a result, some managerial implications of the second scenario differ strikingly from those of the Dorfman-Steiner scenario.

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  • Charles A. Ingene & Mark E. Parry, 1995. "A Note on Multi-Regional Marketing," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 41(7), pages 1194-1201, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:41:y:1995:i:7:p:1194-1201
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.41.7.1194
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    1. Val?rie Bossi Fedrigotti & Christian Fischer, 2014. "The supply chain of sweet chestnuts in South Tyrol," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 16(1), pages 117-137.

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