O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar a importância do marketing de relacionamento para a estratégia competitiva de orientação para mercado, com foco em organizações business to business. Para atingir tal objetivo, foram estudados aspectos do processo de formação estratégica nas empresas, assim como os aspectos das estratégias de crescimento e competitiva. Alinhado ao estudo das estratégias competitivas, foi estudada a teoria de orientação para mercado e a importância do desenvolvimento do marketing de relacionamento em mercados altamente competitivos, para a obtenção de desempenho superior de uma empresa em relação a seus concorrentes. Para complementar e enriquecer o estudo, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo por meio de um estudo de caso no mercado empresarial de inseminação animal, com foco no mercado de bovinos. A empresa estudada foi a IVP do Brasil, empresa líder de mercado que detém 90% de participação comercializando produtos para inseminação animal da IMV Technologies, multinacional francesa. A pesquisa de campo foi conduzida junto à empresa e a um grupo de clientes. Os principais resultados indicam que a liderança da empresa se dá em função de seu alto desempenho no principal fator-chave de sucesso do mercado em que atua. A crescente concorrência, tanto em quantidade quanto em valor ofertado, exige que a empresa desenvolva ações de intimidade com seus clientes, se desejar continuar na liderança deste mercado. / The purpose of this study is to analyze the importance of relationship marketing for competitive strategy of market orientation, with focus on business to business organizations. To achieve this goal, some topics were investigated in detail, such as the strategic building process in companies and the growth and competitive strategies. Subsequent to the study of competitive strategy the market orientation theory was also studied as the importance of the development of relationship marketing in high competitive markets, to achieve superior performance. As a complementary study that enriches the investigations, a field research was conducted as a case study in the animal insemination business market, with focus on the cow market. The company studied was IVP of Brazil, leader in this market with 90% market share, trading animal insemination products from IMV Technologies, a French multinational company. The field research was conducted in collaboration with the company and involving a group of their customers. The main results point to the fact that the company leadership is a result of its high performance in the major key success factor of the market, under consideration. As the competition with quality grows more efficiently, the company must develop customer intimacy strategies, if it would like to keep its leadership in this market.

Este estudo aborda a adequação do Marketing de Relacionamento (MR) ao mercado de bens duráveis que, por definição, apresenta baixa taxa de recompra e interação entre cliente e empresa. O tema é relevante dado que o MR é pouco explorado nesse campo ao contrário dos serviços e negócios entre empresas (business to business), mercados com alto grau de recompra e/ou interações entre empresa e cliente. A proposta do estudo é verificar se e como o MR pode ser aplicado ao mercado de bens duráveis, a partir do entendimento do próprio MR, da cadeia produtiva de um mercado de bem durável e da atuação de uma empresa nesse mercado. Para se atingir os objetivos do estudo foi realizado um estudo de caso no mercado imobiliário residencial. A apresentação do caso está dividida em quatro partes principais: a parte introdutória discute a atuação da empresa em relação a diversos tópicos de marketing; a segunda parte descreve a cadeia produtiva da indústria da construção civil residencial; a terceira parte discute a natureza do produto imobiliário; e a quarta parte sumariza os principais pontos do programa de relacionamento com o cliente da empresa estudada no caso. Como resultados, descobriu-se que o mercado estudado é diferente de outros mercados de bens duráveis, principalmente pelo fato dos imóveis serem intangíveis no momento da venda. Além disso, os processos da cadeia produtiva da indústria da construção civil residencial se mostraram propícios para a aplicação do MR, pois os clientes dessa indústria são obrigados a se relacionar com a empresa durante o período de construção. Soma-se a esse fato o interesse do cliente em manter um relacionamento com a empresa, devido ao alto grau de envolvimento verificado na compra de imóveis. Ademais, a venda de um imóvel na planta apresenta características de serviços, campo em que o MR já é consolidado e, de forma complementar, a complexidade do processo de compra, recebimento e utilização do imóvel cria diversos encontros entre os clientes e as partes envolvidas, oportunidades para as empresas do setor criarem e cultivarem os relacionamentos. / The subject of this study concerns the relationship marketing applied to the durable goods market that presents, by definition, a low rate of repurchase and interaction between industry and clients. It becomes a relevant subject due to the fact that relationship marketing it is not well explored in this field unlike the services and business to business markets, that are well known by their high rate of repurchase and/or interactions. The proposition of this study is to verify if and how the relationship marketing can be applied to the durable goods market, from the understanding of the relationship marketing theory, of the production chain of the durable good market, and the operation of an industry of this segment. To accomplish the goals a case study in the residential real estate market was used. It is shown in four parts: the introductory part demonstrates how the company studied manages marketing, the second part shows how the production chain of the residential real estate market works, the third one discuss the nature of the real estate industries product, and finally, the fourth part summarizes the relationship marketing program of one big player of this market. The conclusions showed that the residential real estate market works differently from others durable goods, mainly due to the intangibility of the real estate under construction at the sales moment. And Also that the processes of the production chain of the residential real estate industry provide an extremely favorable environment for the application of the relationship marketing, because the clients of this industry are obligated to keep a relationship with the company during the construction time and the fact that the purchase of a real estate is a high involvement type turns the clients more interested in a relationship than ever. Other factor that contributed to support the findings were the fact that the selling of a residential real estate presents the services characteristics, field where the relationship market is consolidated and finally the complexity of the purchase, receive and use process creates many encounters between the clients and the other parts involved, opportunities for the companies of the sector to start and cultivate a relationships with the customers.

Este estudo tem como objetivo entender como a dinâmica do relacionamento entre duas empresas é afetada por fatores internos e externos à mesa de negociação. Interdisciplinar, a pesquisa convergiu as contribuições de diversas literaturas, notadamente marketing de relacionamento e negociação, para poder lidar com a complexidade dos dados empíricos coletados. Através de um estudo de caso único, baseado na relação diádica entre um fornecedor e um canal do varejo alimentício brasileiro, foram analisados os fatores que levaram um relacionamento interorganizacional estável por décadas a se deteriorar em apenas dois anos. Os resultados encontrados apontam para o fortalecimento da concorrência e o conflito intradepartamental na empresa fornecedora como os principais motivos da migração para um estado relacional danificado. O histórico positivo do relacionamento se mostrou insuficiente para ajudar na recuperação do relacionamento, assim como a utilização da estratégia de compromisso pelos negociadores. A importância de distinguir em estudos as diferentes formas de conflito é ressaltada pela conclusão da pesquisa. Ao final do trabalho, implicações gerenciais derivadas das conclusões são apresentadas. / The present study aims at understanding how the relationship dynamic between two companies is affected by both internal and external factors to the negotiation table. Interdisciplinary, the research converged the contribution from several literatures, such as relationship marketing and negotiation, in order to deal with the empirical data complexity. Through a case study based on the dyadic relation between a supplier and a channel from Brazilian food retail, the research analyzed the factors that led a solid, long lasting interorganizational relationship to deteriorate into a damaged state in just two years. The results point to a strengthening of the competition and intradepartmental conflict as the main reasons of the migration to a damaged relationship state. The positive relationship history proved to be insufficient to aid in the recovery of the relationship, such as compromising. The importance of distinguishing different types of conflict when studying this phenomenon is highlighted by the study\'s conclusion, and managerial implications to channel management practice are presented.

Submitted by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-10-28T16:47:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Costa Ramos.pdf: 673736 bytes, checksum: 286235c0ae3febab9ffd720670ef9a6a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-10-28T16:49:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Costa Ramos.pdf: 673736 bytes, checksum: 286235c0ae3febab9ffd720670ef9a6a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-10-28T16:49:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Costa Ramos.pdf: 673736 bytes, checksum: 286235c0ae3febab9ffd720670ef9a6a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-28T16:49:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Costa Ramos.pdf: 673736 bytes, checksum: 286235c0ae3febab9ffd720670ef9a6a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / O marketing de relacionamento (MR) é uma das principais formas de melhoria no gerenciamento das relações das empresas com seus clientes e também parceiros. Definido como um conjunto de atividades com o objetivo de desenvolver e dar continuidade às relações entre a empresa e seus clientes, o MR trata da criação de uma base de relacionamento e integração em todas as fases do relacionamento. Na indústria farmacêutica, caracterizada por estratégias mercadológicas particulares, entre as quais se destaca a mudança de foco do consumidor final para o médico (que prescreve o medicamento), o MR é utilizado de forma constante, sendo disponibilizados altos investimentos nesta área. Com base neste contexto, este trabalho busca investigar a relação entre os incentivos da indústria farmacêutica, caracterizados pelas práticas de MR, e a quantidade de receitas prescritas pelos médicos. Assim, o objetivo central da pesquisa é identificar se o investimento desta indústria em MR junto aos médicos faz com que receite mais o produto. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória, utilizando dados secundários de um grande laboratório farmacêutico de nível mundial. Estes dados referem-se a uma amostra de 98 médicos de uma determinada especialidade que foram atendidos pelo Laboratório. Foram testadas as variáveis referentes às práticas de MR – visitas, amostras, congressos, coquetéis e outros, utilizando-se testes de regressão linear. Os resultados comprovaram que os médicos que recebem mais incentivos prescrevem mais receitas. Também foi verificado que existe uma relação positiva entre as práticas de MR e a quantidade de receitas prescritas, sendo que a concessão de inscrições em congressos influencia este resultado de forma mais significativa. / Relationship marketing (RM) is one of the major means of improving the relationship management with clients and suppliers. Defined as a set of activities with the objective of developing the relations between the company and its clients, RM deals about the creation of relationship roots and integration in all the relationship levels. In the pharmaceutical industry, featured by specific marketing strategies, among which stands out the shift of the focus from the final customer to the physician (which prescribes medication), RM is used steadily, being made high investments in this area. So, this study intends to investigate the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry incentives, characterized by the RM practices, and the amount of revenues prescribed by the physicians. Therefore, the main objective of this research is identifying if the investment of this industry in RM with physicians make them to prescribe more medical revenues. So, it was made an exploratory study, using secondary data from a world level laboratory. This data is a sample of 98 physician that were visited by the company. There were tested the RM variables – visits, free samples, congresses, cocktails and others, using linear regression tests. The results proved that the physicians that receive more incentives prescribe more the laboratory’s medication. Also, it was verified that there is a positive relation between the RM practices and the amount of prescription, being the congresses the most influent practice.

Relationship marketing has grown in importance. This growth affects all industries, including the tourism, hospitality and travel industry. Of particular importance is the bond of relationship marketing between suppliers (principals) and retailers (travel agents) in the distribution channel. The research was undertaken to: determine whether Eastern Cape travel agents perceive relationship marketing as important; establish, what the key elements of relationship marketing strategies are,according to literature; determine what marketing strategies are currently applied by Eastern Cape travel agents; provide guidelines to Eastern Cape travel agents to implement or improve their relationship marketing strategies. Fifty self-administered questionnaires were distributed to the entire population of travel agents in the Eastern Cape. A total of 30 travel agents responded. The empirical findings showed that: Most Eastern Cape travel agents perceived relationship marketing as important; Travel agents realized the importance of the management of such relationship marketing strategies; Most travel agents were aware of or used retention strategies to enhance relationship marketing strategies; Travel agents realized that to survive relationship marketing should be part of their future planning; All respondents believed that to successfully implement relationship marketing, all staff, from front-line to top-management, need to be committed to the programme. In conclusion, relationship marketing is growing in importance and all role players need to acknowledge and manage this trend. However, this research has shown that there is a paradigm shift as more travel agents are moving away from the traditional marketing to relationship marketing.

The research problem addressed in this study was an assessment of the relationship-marketing strategy that Morkels currently has in operation. This strategy focuses on membership of a club that is sold to customers when they open an account. The strategy is to keep in touch with the customer by means of the club magazine, a club card and various special events and offers that are exclusive to club members. The strategy, however, may not be entirely successful in achieving the goals and objectives as envisaged by the senior management of the company. The objective of the research was to establish what exactly relationship marketing is. Once having investigated the theory of relationship marketing, the objective of the research was to establish what the goals of the management at Morkels were and whether or not these goals were met. The methodology of the research was, firstly, to conduct a literature survey on relationship marketing. In particular the study of literature focused on the theory related to the retail market focussing essentially where similar marketing strategies had been investigated. A variety of aspects of relationship marketing and strategies that had previously been implemented were then examined. The literature survey also considered the way in which a successful strategy of relationship-marketing should be motivated, planned, implemented and followed through. Secondly the research established what the goals and objectives of the management of Morkels were by means of an investigation into the policies and manuals of the relationship-marketing department. Finally a questionnaire was disseminated to the senior management of Morkels to establish what they considered to be the needs and opinions of the customers of the Garden Route Area. A second questionnaire with similar questions was also submitted to a sample of club members. This was done to establish the opinions of both groups. The major findings of the research were that Morkels is experiencing a degree of success with its relationship-marketing strategy. The research findings also revealed that opinions of the customers and the management of Morkels do not concur on a number of issues. These differences and the most important factors were discussed and recommendations were made to management.

Educational institutions are immersed in a very competitive environment with a lot of changes. The improvement of administration strategies is necessary for the survival of these organizations. Customer relationship management has become one of the main competitive differences and its usage can be essential for improving satisfaction and loyalty of clients of educational services. In order to study customer relationship management in the strategic administration of Sociedade Educacional Três de Maio - SETREM, it was performed a quality and quantity research. In analyzing the results, it became clear that using customer relationship management can only reach its goal if it is centered in profound knowledge of the client and in the commitment of everybody who is involved in the process. In studying some administration processes of SETREM, it was observed that there are important indicators that allow improvement of actions, beside the development of new activities, seeking an approach of client relationship management. In the research performed, beside other data, it can be verified levels of student s loyalty and satisfaction on several levels and courses, besides making exercises about the monetary value of the client. It was also analyzed aspects of satisfaction and environment of teachers, staff and community leaders. There were suggested actions to better the intern and extern customer relationship processes of the institution. Taking the secondary and primary data collection as basis, it was possible to propose new actions established on the marketing of customer relationship for the educational strategic management aiming the increase of satisfaction and fidelity of the involved in the process. / As instituições educacionais estão mergulhadas em um cenário muito competitivo e de grandes mudanças. O aprimoramento das estratégias de gestão é uma necessidade para a sobrevivência destas organizações. O marketing de relacionamento vem se tornando um dos principais diferenciais competitivos. Sua utilização pode ser essencial na melhoria da satisfação e fidelização de clientes dos serviços educacionais. Para estudar o marketing de relacionamento na gestão estratégica da Sociedade Educacional Três de Maio - SETREM, foram realizadas pesquisas qualitativas e quantitativas. Na análise dos resultados, ficou claro que a implantação do marketing de relacionamento, somente atingirá seus objetivos, se estiver centrada no profundo conhecimento do cliente e no comprometimento de todas as pessoas envolvidas no processo. Estudando-se alguns processos de gestão da SETREM, constatou-se a existência de indicadores importantes que permitem o aperfeiçoamento de ações, além do desenvolvimento de novas atividades, visando uma abordagem de marketing de relacionamento. Nas pesquisas realizadas, dentre outros dados, pôde-se verificar índices de fidelização e satisfação dos estudantes nos diversos níveis e cursos, além de realizar ensaios sobre o valor monetário do cliente. Também foram analisados aspectos de satisfação e envolvimento de professores, funcionários e lideranças da comunidade. Foram propostas ações de melhorias dos processos de relacionamento com o público interno e externo da instituição. Tendo por base os levantamentos de dados secundários e primários, foi possível propor novas ações para a gestão estratégica educacional, baseadas no marketing de relacionamento, visando o aumento da satisfação e da fidelização dos envolvidos no processo.

Recent literature state that the relationship between buyers and sellers has gained more and more importance in business-to-business segments. The distribution of products may even end up in the shadow of these important relationships. The statement, of increased need for relationship marketing, is proven more tangible in cross-border interactions and communications. Managers who are maintaining and establishing international accounts have to acknowledge cultural differences, norms and preferences when keeping their international key accounts satisfaction. However, the practice around how cultural diversity implement the relationship process is something that could be further explored. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to explore cultural conflicts and dilemmas in manager’s relations with international key accounts.The thesis has a phenomenological approach, which aims at exploring personal business experiences of managers in practice. Thus, the aim is not to make general assumptions about either KAM, RM or business culture. The thesis is developed through five separate interviews with managers of different gender, practice and targeted customer culture. We mainly used Hofstede's (2017) framework when analyzing and discussing the implication of business culture on international relationships. Several strategies, both personal and business oriented, where noticed as a result of international and intercultural business collaborations. The result shows how complex the subject of business culture is and how limitations of managing cultural diversity can lead to conflicts and dilemmas.

[pt] Para a indústria farmacêutica, novas práticas de marketing via internet têm implicações muito relevantes, pois permitem não apenas criar vínculos diretos com seus consumidores finais(antes quase inexistentes), mas também, criar novas formas de interação com a classe médica, antes restritas basicamente às visitas de seus representantes de vendas aos consultórios e a eventos promocionais (e.g. divulgação de produtos via congressos, seminários e publicações especializadas). Esta dissertação pretende avaliar o padrão de utilização da internet por um grupo de médicos brasileiros, bem como suas reais necessidades no que diz respeito aos serviços disponíveis através da internet. Esta avaliação de seus usos e demandas é realizada de modo a pensar suas possíveis implicações sobre o marketing de relacionamento praticado pela indústria farmacêutica e demais provedores de serviços (baseados na internet) direcionados para a classe médica. / [en] For the pharmaceutical industry, the new marketing practice via internet has much relevant implications since it allows the establishment of direct bonds not only with their final customers (almost non existent before, in the Brazilian marketplace), but also with the medical community, which has been historically approached through restricted ways such as sales representatives and promotional events, such as congresses, seminars and specialized publishing on medical research. This dissertation evaluates the standards of internet use by a group of doctors, as well as their needs with respect to internet services. This evaluation of habits and demands allows us to think about some possible implications to the relationship marketing practiced by pharmaceutical industry and others internet based service providers whose main focus is thr medical community.

M.A. / Identity is a broad term that has changed across time and within context. This paper focuses specifically on notions of ‘public versus private’ identity within an online context. Within this study I took both a qualitative and quantitative approach as a means of data collection. This research was aimed at answering the one research question: ‘How do UJ Facebook members use notions of public and private to perform their identity?’ I employed a ‘mixed methodology’ of a qualitative and quantitative approach to enable in gaining data. As part of my qualitative research I applied the ethnographic approach; I observed a total of 25 profiles in order to understand the way in which the UJ Facebook members ‘perform’ their identities through their individual profiles. For twelve months I used observations to understand and explore identities of UJ Facebook members. As part of my quantitative research, I randomly selected 105 individuals as a representation of the UJ Facebook group and with the use of a statistics programme (SPSS) I statistically represented my findings. During my twelve months of research I observed individual profiles of UJ Facebook members and focused on ‘identity markers’ to help me to understand how identities are represented within this space. By identity markers, I refer to markers such as name, sex, birth date, relationship status, religious and political viewpoint, and so on. These markers help create a perception of one’s identity based on the information that is filled in when the profile is created by the individual. Thus, both my qualitative and quantitative findings paint a picture of how profile pictures, status updates, walls, information, applications and so on help communicate a message of identity to an ‘outsider’. I have found a tension between public and private performances of identity. In tension, I don’t mean dishonesty but rather the tensions communicated by the UJ Facebook members in the way in which their identities are performed. For example, one of my participants does not indicate her relationship status, but her status updates and wall is a constant communication with her boyfriend. Therefore, at times these messages contradict each other and this tends to raise questions about ‘how public’ and ‘how private’ ones profile really is.