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Using the 7Ps as a generic marketing mix: an exploratory survey of UK and European marketing academics

Mohammed Rafiq (Lecturer in Retailing and Marketing at Loughborough University Business School, Loughborough, UK.)
Pervaiz K. Ahmed (Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.)

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

ISSN: 0263-4503

Article publication date: 1 October 1995

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Abstract

McCarthy′s 4Ps mix has increasingly come under attack with the result that different marketing mixes have been put forward for different marketing contexts. Contends that the numerous and ad hoc conceptualizations undermine the concept of the marketing mix and proposes that Booms and Bitner′s (1981) 7Ps mix for services be extended to other areas of marketing. Shows how the 7Ps framework can be applied to consumer goods and reports the results of a survey of UK and European marketing academics which suggest that there is a high degree of dissatisfaction with 4Ps. Also suggests that the 7Ps framework has already achieved a high degree of acceptance as a generic marketing mix among both groups of respondents. Overall provides fairly strong support for the view that Booms and Bitner′s 7Ps framework should replace McCarthy′s 4Ps framework.

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Rafiq, M. and Ahmed, P.K. (1995), "Using the 7Ps as a generic marketing mix: an exploratory survey of UK and European marketing academics", Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Vol. 13 No. 9, pp. 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/02634509510097793

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