Les travaux menés sur les actifs et capacités marketing démontrent l'importance de ces ressources pour la performance des entreprises. Cependant les facteurs susceptibles de favoriser leur présence et les mécanismes par lesquels les entreprises organisent les ressources disponibles sont peu ou mal connus. Sur le plan théorique, ces deux questions de recherche relèvent d'une problématique commune visant à consolider les micro-fondations de la RBV. Sur le plan opérationnel, ces sujets revêtent une importance toute particulière pour les PME compte tenu des spécificités structurelles et organisationnelles de cette catégorie d'entreprises. L’objectif de la recherche consiste à étudier la présence et l'organisation de deux actifs marketing (la réputation et le capital relationnel clients) et de deux capacités marketing (les capacités support et spécialisées) au sein d'un échantillon représentatif de PME françaises. Les résultats issus de la première étude sur l'influence des facteurs de contingence internes et externes sur la présence de ces quatre ressources permettent de nuancer le poids du déterminisme des facteurs structurels (taille et âge) et confirment l’influence positive du capital humain et du profil stratégique. La deuxième étude porte sur les relations de complémentarité causale entre les quatre ressources marketing étudiées. Un modèle global de causalité permet de comprendre les mécanismes organisationnels sous-jacents à la création de la performance. Les résultats démontrent l'importance de certains couplages organisationnels et le rôle central qu’occupent les capacités support. L'identification de manière inductive de trois configurations-types de ressources marketing complète ces conclusions en permettant (a) d’approcher de manière plus contingente et plus réaliste l’organisation des actifs et capacités marketing étudiés et (b) de comparer la performance des trois configurations issues de la taxonomie. Sur le plan méthodologique, la recherche contribue à la littérature existante (a) via le développement et la validation d’un nouvel instrument de mesure et (b) via la mise en œuvre d’une méthode de segmentation PLS pour la réalisation de la classification inductive. / The importance of assets and marketing capabilities on performance is largely acknowledged but questions remain regarding the resources endowments and complementarities, especially within SMEs. On a theoretical level, these two research questions stem from the same efforts to solidify the micro-foundations of the RBV. These topics are of particular importance for SMEs given their structural and organizational specificities. The present study therefore studies the presence and the organization of two marketing assets (the reputation and the customer relationship capital) and two marketing capabilities (the support and specialized marketing capabilities) within a representative sample of French SMEs. The study of the influence of internal and external contingency factors on the presence of these four resources does not confirm the determinism of the structural factors (such as size and age) but confirms the crucial role of factors such as the human capital characteristics and the strategic profile. The study of the causal relationships complementarities among the four resources demonstrates the importance of certain organizational linkages and the crucial influence on performance of the architectural marketing capabilities. In order to better contextualize these conclusions, an inductive classification of three marketing configurations is proposed and discussed. This research contributes to the existing literature through the development and the validation of several new scales and the innovative use of a PLS Path Modeling approach to identify three classes of marketing resources configurations.

This thesis deals with the application of human resource marketing methods in social enterprises. Its aim is to find out how human resource marketing is implemented in social enterprises and what methods of internal and external human resource marketing are used by the social enterprises under study. The thesis describes the specifics of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises, individual methods of human resource marketing, phases of staff planning and distinguishes between the concepts of human resource marketing and employer branding. The empirical part uses a semi-structured interview and a questionnaire for research and is based on the experience of human resource managers with the application of human resource marketing and on the perception of its application by the employees of the enterprise. It describes the weaknesses and strengths of the methods and differences between the enterprises under study. The output is also a recommendation for human resource managers and a comparison of human resource marketing methods used in the enterprises under study with those described in professional publications.

The development of non-traditional communication channels in recent years has progressively created a world more digital, networked and interlaced by a myriad of communication tools than ever before. With Facebook being the most prevalent social network, this study aims to guide local organisations to use Facebook optimally to communicate with their customers. The study strives to incorporate the latest ideas about social media marketing in the relevant literature with the opinions of local social media marketing experts. The generally ineffective use of Facebook as a communication channel by small, inexperienced organisations is seen as a justification for identifying a set of criteria to guide organisations in using Facebook pages as a driver of communication. The empirical phase of the research produced a list of seven guidelines on the optimal use of Facebook pages for marketing purposes, which might assist South African companies in developing their marketing strategies. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

The development of non-traditional communication channels in recent years has progressively created a world more digital, networked and interlaced by a myriad of communication tools than ever before. With Facebook being the most prevalent social network, this study aims to guide local organisations to use Facebook optimally to communicate with their customers. The study strives to incorporate the latest ideas about social media marketing in the relevant literature with the opinions of local social media marketing experts. The generally ineffective use of Facebook as a communication channel by small, inexperienced organisations is seen as a justification for identifying a set of criteria to guide organisations in using Facebook pages as a driver of communication. The empirical phase of the research produced a list of seven guidelines on the optimal use of Facebook pages for marketing purposes, which might assist South African companies in developing their marketing strategies. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)