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Authors
Affran, S., Dza, M. & Oduro, R.
Publication Year
2019
Article Title
Relationship Marketing: A Strategic Tool for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Journal
International Journal of Research
Volume
14
Issue Number
3
Page Numbers
54 - 65
ISSN
1430-3663
Abstract

The key to a firm鈥檚 survival, profitability, and聽growth in a highly competitive marketing聽environment is its ability to identify and satisfy聽unfulfilled consumer needs better and sooner聽than the competitor. It has become imperative for聽business entities to strategically think about how聽to attract and subsequently retain customers. The聽study therefore seeks to examine the impact of聽relationship marketing strategies on sustained聽competitive advantage. Empirically, the study聽establishes that within the Ghanaian context聽banks can equally gain sustained competitive聽advantage through relationship marketing聽strategies. Purposive sampling technique was聽used to select the respondents for the study since聽the study only targeted relationship staff of the聽respective banks. It was noticed from the study聽that, communication, bonding, and commitment聽perfectly established positive significant effect on聽relationship marketing and sustained competitive聽advantage. Interestingly communication was聽found to be the highest contributor to sustained聽competitive advantage in the Ghanaian banking聽industry, followed by commitment and conflict聽handling in that order. This implies that banks聽that intending to attain sustained competitive聽advantage should strategically employ the entire聽integrated marketing communication elements聽and communicate it to the target audience in the聽timely and accurate manner. The banks must聽resolve conflicts in a manner that will boost the聽confidence of the customer after the conflict聽resolution. This work has deepened the聽understanding of bank marketing in Ghana by聽proving that banks can achieve sustained聽competitive advantage by investing more and聽more in relationship marketing practice mostly in聽communication, commitment and conflict聽handling.

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