Small Firm Marketing in China: A Comparative Study

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This paper examines the influence of Chinese cultural values on marketing practices in different sociocultural settings and business contexts, for example the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and China. 20 Chinese small firms in China were selected and their owner-managers were interviewed. Findings of interviews undertaken by Brooksbank et al. (1992) with 20 British small firm chief marketing executives, and Siu (1997) with 26 Chinese owner-managers in Hong Kong, were collated to form a database for comparison purposes. The research results suggest that the specific marketing practices of Chinese small firms in mainland China are different from those of their counterparts, for example, British and Hong Kong Chinese small firms. A tentative model is developed explaining the factors that appear likely, on the basis of this research, to affect the marketing performance of small firms in China.

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Siu, W. S. (2001). Small Firm Marketing in China: A Comparative Study. Small Business Economics, 16(4), 279–292. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011179823847

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