Marketing’s role in the knowledge economy

Abstract

A potential weakness of marketing in the strategy dialogue has been a tendency on the part of marketing scholars to stay with outmoded frameworks. As the economy is decreasingly influenced by industrial value creation and increasingly influenced by knowledge creation and dissemination, the role of marketing in value creation and thus in strategy is accentuated. Synthesizing current literature regarding the environmental changes and the underlying foundations for value creation affected by these changes, and contrasting them to traditional, industrial value creation, an argument for the central role of marketing in the knowledge economy is provided and examples support the new value creation‐marketing link.

Citation

Bean, C.J. and Robinson, L. (2002), "Marketing’s role in the knowledge economy", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 17 No. 2/3, pp. 204-214. https://doi.org/10.1108/08858620210419817