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ABSTRACT
The authors propose a pragmatic methodology to provide management with directional guidance in their marketing-resource allocation decisions. The authors report on the estimated market-response functions for products from seven different industries. In each industry, the most popular marketing vehicle receives the largest share of the marketing budget. A number of rationales may explain these allocation decisions, to which the authors add the hypothesis of conservative decision making in marketing. According to this hypothesis, the observed allocation pattern signals a significant overspending on some marketing drivers and underinvestment in alternative marketing vehicles. Marketing managers, thereby, forego the profitable growth opportunities potentially available from the reallocation of their marketing budgets.
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