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INTRODUCTION
marketingactivities,i.e.issuesthatareinterpreteddifferentlyintheliteratureonthesub-
ject,arediscussed.Inthispartofthemonograph,inadditiontopresentinginterpretative
dilemmas,selectedmethodsandindicatorsformeasuringeffectivenessandefficiencyare
presented.Furthermore,theproblemofeffectivenessandefficiencyofmarketingcommu-
nicationthroughsocialmediaispresented.Themainemphasisisplacedontheoreticaland
empiricalmodels,includingBartholomew’smodel,theHuysemodelandothers.
Thefifthchapterofthemonographpresentsthemethodologyofownresearch,themain
researchassumptionsoftheempiricalstudyandthestagesoftheresearchprocedure.
Theobjectiveoftheresearch,researchquestionsaswellashypothesesformulatedon
thebasisofliteratureresearch,observationsandownexperiencesarepresentedindetail.
Thetriangulationofresearchmethodsresultingfromthecombinationofquantitative
andqualitativeresearchmethodsisdiscussed.Thestudiedpopulation,samplingframe,
andresearchsamplearecharacterized.Thischapteralsopresentstheauthor’soriginal
schemeshowingendo-andexogenousdeterminantsandtheeffectsofusingnewmedia
incommunicationactivitiesintheforeignmarkets.Thepresenteddependenciesrefer
toformulatedhypotheses,whichweresubjectedtostatisticaltesting,anditseffectsare
presentedinchapters6and7.
Chapters6and7presenttheresultsofthe“quantitativepartofempiricalresearch”
concerningtheimportanceofnewmediaininternationalinterpersonalcommunication
withaforeignpartner(B2BandB2Cmarket)andmarketingcommunication(B2Cmar-
ket).Theyincludestatisticsontheinfluenceofparticulardeterminantsontheuseofnew
media,aswellasitseffects.Thesepartsareconcludedwithasummaryanddiscussion
relatedtotheoreticalconcepts.TheresultsofstatisticaltestswiththeuseofSpearman’s
rankcorrelation,chi-squaredtestandCramer’sVindicatorsshowingthecorrelations
presentedinresearchhypothesesarealsodiscussed.
Theresultsofqualitativeresearcharepresentedinchapter8.Themainresearch
methodconsistsofin-depthindividualinterviewsconductedamongselectedindividuals
belongingtostudiedpopulation.Asaresultofthisresearch,sixcasestudies(threefrom
theB2BmarketandthreefromtheB2Cmarketofvarioussizes)aredevelopeddescribing
theimportanceofnewmediaininternationalcommunicationactivities.Thechapteris
concludedwithasummaryandareferencetotheresultsobtainedinthequantitativepart.
Themonographendswithasummaryinwhichattentionisfocusedontheapplicabil-
ityoftheresearchresultsobtainedandtheoreticalconsiderationscarriedoutthroughout
thework.Referenceismadetotheenterprisesdiversifiedintermsofthetypeofproducts
offeredtoforeignmarkets,thedegreeoftheirinternationalizationaswellastheirsize.
Furthermore,researchlimitationsandproposalsfortheirdevelopmentinthefutureare
alsoindicated.
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