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- Title
Standardization and Adaptation as a Coconstituted Process: The Pursuit of Relational Fit in International Markets.
- Authors
Poulis, Konstantinos
- Abstract
Marketing products/services internationally entails a bold decision that has high-cost implications and significant performance consequences: Should the firm standardize or adapt its marketing strategy across borders? The dilemma is a seminal issue, and perhaps the most enduring in international marketing scholarship. However, despite the voluminous work on the topic, an ontological assumption induces inconclusive conceptualizations and impedes theoretical advancement. The author contends that a self-contained, atomistic representation of the standardization/adaptation decision is such an impediment. This work problematizes a portrayal of the decision as if it is taken following a detached, own judgment of broad environmental contingencies. In turn, the study builds on fit literature and promotes an alternative perspective that acknowledges relational imperatives for requisite theorizing. Hence, standardization/adaptation is framed as a coconstituted process toward relational fit, with international marketing strategies being contingent on the role of significant "others."
- Subjects
EXPORT marketing; STANDARDIZATION; MARKETING strategy; MARKETING; LEGAL judgments; INTERNATIONAL markets
- Publication
Journal of International Marketing, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 2, p12
- ISSN
1069-031X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1069031X231212414