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Examining the Mediating Role of Integrated Marketing Communication on the Relationship between Adhocracy Culture and Brand Advantage

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Abstract

Despite over twenty years of intense academic research on Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC), this concept “continues to stir debate, discussion and, in some cases, confusion” (Kliatchko and Schultz, 2014, p. 373). Several authors (Kliatchko, 2008; Porcu, Del Barrio-García and Kitchen, 2012) have highlighted the lack of consensus among academics over the definition of IMC. Since its very emergence, the IMC concept has expanded from a narrowly focused marketing communications approach to a more holistic ‘firm-wide’ organisational perspective (Duncan and Moriarty, 1998; Cook, 2004; Christensen, Firat and Torp, 2008; Muñoz-Leiva, Porcu and Del Barrio-García, 2015).

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  • Organisational Culture
  • Standard Industrial Classification
  • Average Variance Extract
  • Competitive Intensity
  • Software Process Improvement

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    Lucia Porcu, Salvador del Barrio-García & Esmeralda Crespo-Almendros

  2. University of Granada, Department of Marketing and Market Research, University of Granada, Spain, C/Cortadura del Valle S.N. C.P., 51001, Ceuta, Spain

    Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar

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Porcu, L., del Barrio-García, S., Alcántara-Pilar, J.M., Crespo-Almendros, E. (2017). Examining the Mediating Role of Integrated Marketing Communication on the Relationship between Adhocracy Culture and Brand Advantage. In: Christodoulides, G., Stathopoulou, A., Eisend, M. (eds) Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. VII). European Advertising Academy. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15220-8_20

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