Price and Advertising Effort Over the Product Life Cycle: The B.C.G. and Dorfman-Steiner Approaches

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Abstract

The relative importance of the price and advertising variables in the total marketing mix is expected to vary over the product life cycle. The Boston Consulting Group’s share-growth matrix, as well as the Dorfman-Steiner Theorem can “be useful in providing direction to strategy. The implications of the two approaches are analysed. Although both approaches provide somewhat similar directions, they diverge in terms of their implications for the decline stage of the product life cycle.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDevelopments in Marketing Science
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages288-290
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameDevelopments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
ISSN (Print)2363-6165
ISSN (Electronic)2363-6173

Keywords

  • Advertising Effort
  • Boston Consult Group
  • Fixed Cost
  • Optimal Advertising
  • Product Life Cycle

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