Azimont, F and Araujo, L M (2007) Category reviews as market-shaping events. Industrial Marketing Management, 36 (7). pp. 849-860. ISSN 0019-8501
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This paper examines a series of category review meeting between manufacturers of fast-moving consumer goods and retailers as instances of market-shaping. Our point of departure is that markets are performed and shaped by multiple calculative agencies whose encounters are organized in routine fashion. Our empirical case focuses on the presentations of manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages to one retailer during the annual cycle of reviews and negotiations that punctuate the implementation of exchange routines between these actors. Each presentation draws on a range of arguments, data, metrics, as well as ways of defining and segmenting the category to propose strategies that either reinforce the status quo or overturn well-established conventions. Category reviews illustrate both the negotiated and distributed character of market practices as well as their paradoxical character, at once dependent on stable institutional arrangements whilst continuously undermining the foundations of that stability.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Industrial Marketing Management |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Market practices ; Category management ; Manufacturer–retailer relationships |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Departments: | Lancaster University Management School > Marketing |
| ID Code: | 44831 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2011 19:22 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 19:08 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/44831 |
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