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Chapter Two
The Changing Marketing Environment
Learning Objectives
After this chapter,you should master:
1. The basic concepts and features about marketing environment.
2. The variables influencing the marketing environment
3. Different competitve situations and how to analyze your competitor
4. Key terms
Chapter Outline
Marketing Environment
SWOT Model
Macro-Environment
Micro-Environment
Competitive Environment
Marketing Environment
Marketing environment is the combination of all the external forces and relative factors that have a certain relatioship with marketing activities within some company, elements influencing the very existence and further development of an enterprise.
SWOT Model
Internal External
Strong Negative Weaknesses Threats
Strong Positive Strengths Opportunities
Table 2.1 SWOT Model
Macro-Environment and Micro-Environment
Macro-environment
Economy
Law
Micro-environment
Suppliers
Customers
Society
Technology
Nature
Distributors
Competitors
Company
Figure 2.1 Marketing Environment
Macro-Environment
Macro-Environment refers to all the forces that can create opportunities as wellAasAposeAthreatsatoatheaexistenceaandadevelopmentaofaaacorporation,includingaeconomics,nature,politics,laws,culture and etc.
Several Factors
The Economic Development Disparity
Technology
Political Environment
Economic Performance
Legal Environment
The natural environment
The cultural and social environment
The Economic Development Disparity
Here are many competing classifications of countries from an economic development perspective. Historically, the informal and frequently used classification in the West has referred to highly industrialized, developed countries as the First World, to socialist ountries as the Second World, and to developing countries as the Third World. Of this classification, only the term "Third World" has been used widely.
Technology
Technology is the newest and the most active factor of the social productivity.As a part of the