A influência da estrutura organizacional na execução das atividades de marketing / The Organizational Structure Influence on Marketing Management

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The study on marketing organization and its organizational structures are crucial for the implementation of marketing efforts, mainly in a competitive scenario where companies need to constantly change their strategies and their structures to meet new demands of the market. Despite historical, this debate has been relegated to the second role by marketing researchers and executives and the proposal of this thesis is to revive that discussion. Thus, the central purpose of this study is to conduct a formal and descriptive analysis of the influence of conditioning factors of organizational structure in the implementation of marketing activities. Therefore some criteria are considered: departmentalization and its forms, centralization of areas of support, location of assessments, control extension and number of hierarchical levels, decentralization of authority, communication systems and level of formalization in the areas of marketing as well as its influence in activities such as sourcing and researching of market information, marketing planning, development of target strategies, positioning and differentiation, goal setting, marketing decisions (product, price, distribution and promotion), development and maintenance of customer relationship, social responsibility and ethics programs contemplating the relationship between the theoretical marketing and theory of organizations. The completion of this thesis was made through an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, composed for complementary research. After an exploratory research for the formulation of the theoretical reference a survey study was done of multicase exploratory and qualitatively in the marketing areas of two consumer goods companies: Whirlpool do Brasil e PepsiCo do Brasil Unidade de Bebidas. Amongst the main results its been noticed the strong influence of decentralization of authority as crucial for the implementation of marketing activities, the unconcern about a formal definition of the activities, the use of a hierarchical form of departmentalization as functional - brand / product - functional and, above all, a new form of organizational structure for products and brand management that contemplates the functional separation of the activities of coordination and planning management, allocating the decision about product lines, innovation and new products that can be considered a strategic area of support and centralized.

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marketing organizational structure gestão de produtos e marcas products and brand management estrutura organizacional marketing

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