Advances In Management

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Advances In Management






Vol. 8(10) October 2015

Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations

Ha Jungbok

Main purpose of this study is two folds. First, reviewing results of previous researches in nonprofit organizations’ marketing strategies to show the feasibility of adopting for-profit’s marketing strategies to nonprofit organizations and second, to show the necessity of separating for-profit marketing strategies from nonprofit marketing strategies based on the distinctiveness of characteristics of nonprofit organizations. This study shows and reviews marketing for nonprofit organizations and then the previous studies for nonprofit organizations marketing strategies are followed by distinctive nonprofit marketing strategies such as fund raising strategy and cause related marketing (CRM).

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Developing a scale to measure Decision Making Style

Lather Anu Singh, Nangia Vinay Kumar and Dwivedi Anju

The present research seeks to develop and validate a construct of decision making. First, in defining the construct, literature was reviewed and five factors were synthesized appearing in most of the studies. These factors are Directive, Thinking, Analytical, Impulsive and Rational. A questionnaire with 78 items on these factors was constructed. A sample of 161 associates working at different managerial levels in four different Sectors (Manufacturing, Service, Consumer Goods and Oil and Petroleum) was taken. Factor Analysis was applied to validate the questionnaire and reliability score was calculated for each factor and the entire construct. On the basis of factor analysis a questionnaire containing 25 items was finalized. This 25 item questionnaire was then administered on a sample of 800 associates working at different managerial levels in four different Sectors (Manufacturing, Service, Consumer Goods and Oil and Petroleum) to define norms on the basis of which the associates can be categorized under Directive, Thinking, Analytical, Impulsive and Rational Decision makers.

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