A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models

Severina Iankova, Iain Davies, Chris Archer-Brown, Ben Marder, Amy Yau

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This paper explores the implicit assumption in the growing body of literature that social media usage is fundamentally different in business-to-business (B2B) companies than in the extant business-to-consumer (B2C) literature. Sashi's (2012) customer engagement cycle is utilized to compare organizational practices in relation to social media marketing in B2B, B2C, Mixed B2B/B2C and B2B2C business models. Utilizing 449 responses to an exploratory panel based survey instrument, we clearly identify differences in social media usage and its perceived importance as a communications channel. In particular we identify distinct differences in the relationship between social media importance and the perceived effectiveness of social media marketing across business models. Our results indicate that B2B social media usage is distinct from B2C, Mixed and B2B2C business model approaches. Specifically B2B organizational members perceive social media to have a lower overall effectiveness as a channel and identify it as less important for relationship oriented usage than other business models.
LanguageEnglish
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JournalIndustrial Marketing Management
Early online date20 Jan 2018
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 20 Jan 2018

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A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models. / Iankova, Severina; Davies, Iain; Archer-Brown, Chris; Marder, Ben ; Yau, Amy.

In: Industrial Marketing Management, 20.01.2018, p. (in press).

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Iankova, S, Davies, I, Archer-Brown, C, Marder, B & Yau, A 2018, 'A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models', Industrial Marketing Management, pp. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.01.001
Iankova S, Davies I, Archer-Brown C, Marder B, Yau A. A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models. Industrial Marketing Management. 2018 Jan 20;(in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.01.001
Iankova, Severina ; Davies, Iain ; Archer-Brown, Chris ; Marder, Ben ; Yau, Amy. / A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models. In: Industrial Marketing Management. 2018 ; pp. (in press).
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