Culture

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Category Marketing
Level University
Created / Updated 26.11.2014 / 19.01.2019
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Repetition: Definition

International Marketing and Marketing

Marketing: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offers that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large. (Kotler/Keller 2011)

International Marketing: is the process of planning and conducting transactions across national borders to create exchanges. (Czinkota/Ronkainen 2004) 

The main difference is the scope of activities because international marketing occurs in markets outside the organization’ s home country.

International Marketing environment

Analysis of the International Marketing environment (e.g.)

- Economic Environment

- Political and legal environment

- Demographic, social and cultural environment

Definition of Culture

- Collective memory of a society

- Accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms and traditions among the members of an organization or society.

Characteristics of Culture

- Culture is learned

- Culture regulates society (i.e., makes everyone behave)

- Culture makes living more efficient

- Culture is adaptive (to environmental demands)

- Culture is environmental (i.e., envelopes everyone‘s life alike and always)

- Cultures are hierarchical ( subcultures)

The ‘contents’ of culture: the Iceberg Analogy 8 levels

Elements of Culture

Language

Everyday behaviours 

The know-hows 

Institutions 

Social Norms (‘do's and dont's’)

Values 

Mental states and cognitive processes 

Myths, beliefs and basic assumptions 

Four major elements of culture

Language and communication

Institutions

Material productions

Symbolic productions.

Material productions (inputs and outputs)

- Artistic (e.g. music, art)
- Intellectual (e.g. books)
- Physical (e.g. buildings, tools, products)
- Service (e.g. education, media, banks).

Sources of Culture

Sources of Culture

Functions of culture

- Communication codes

- Long-term survival

- Synchronization of behaviours (explicit – implicit)

- ‘Best way’ for doing or not doing things (‘pools of knowledge’)

- Identity (ingroups versus outgroups)

- Vision of the world (Weltanschauung) strongly related to deep-

What use is culture to the individual?

Provides a set of beliefs and standards: What to do and how to do it correctly

- What is palatable, admissible, ethical, magical,religious, hygienic, quality, etc.

- When it is time to sleep, to eat, to work, etc.

Mindsets or mental maps guide behaviour

Prejudices and stereotypes: what, why and how

Cultural Practices

Rituals: set of activities performed in a fixed sequence and repeated periodically (e.g., wedding ritual)

Customs: ways of doing something (e.g., bridal egistries)

Myths: stories that express some key value of a society (e.g., Santa Claus brings gifts)