This Dissertation Explores The Importance of Marketing Metrics and Measurement Tools. UK Managers and Marketing Productivity. Marketing Metrics and Measurement Tools Dissertation – In recent years, marketing measurement has been at the centre of interest of both academics and practitioners. The reason for these interest lies in the growing importance for marketing to be more accountable, in a pressing business environment. Lack of accountability has led the marketing function to lose credibility amongst firms and therefore budget and importance. Many studies have been conducted on the creation of new measurement theories and on the theorisation of marketing metrics. However, only a few empirical researches have been conducted concerning the analysis of the current situation of marketing measurement and the perceptions that practitioners have of it. This research aims to explore UK companies concerning their current practices in marketing measurement. Furthermore, it investigates th htt...
This Dissertation Explores the Value Logic of Business Models and CSR within the Pharmaceutical Industry - AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. Value Logic in Business Models – This dissertation explores Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) deployment within the pharmaceutical industry. The chosen pharmaceutical companies are AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline due to being the most valuable FTSE100 pharmaceutical companies trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). This research is conducted by analyzing embedded responsibility on business model artifacts in five-year annual reports (2013-2017) for both companies using the thematic analysis as method. Moreover, embedded responsibility elements and themes changes for both AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline during five years are analyzed by using intensity analysis. The research discussions also use comparative analysis to compare how AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline deploy CSR activities across their businesses. https://www.study-aids.co.uk/busm...