The prerequisites for efficient and effective marketing and sales organizing have changed. Continued internationalization and richer access to information means that both customer firms and suppliers cover greater geographical space, and they have generally become more coordinated and sophisticated. Increased competence and maturity among customer firms has changed how those firms relate to their suppliers. Accordingly, there has been increased attention to how business relations can enhance value-creation. This introduces a whole new set of organizational challenges for marketing and sales.Organizing Marketing and Sales addresses a number of themes related to this development, both empirically and conceptually. It offers case studies to demonstrate in detail the kinds of challenges faced by multinational, multiproduct firms, and it also draws upon theoretical perspectives in order to examine contemporary challenges in marketing and sales organization.
PART I: INTRODUCTION: ORGANIZING MARKETING AND SALES
1. Contemporary developments and challenges in sales organizations – some observations; Björn Axelsson
2. Marketing re-organization in a globalized market: The case of ABB Robotics; Per Andersson, Björn Axelsson, Kristoffer Jönsson & Ebba Laurin
3. Marketing organization research and ideas revisited; Per Andersson
PART II: SALES MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVISITED
4. Value-based selling in the service dominated businesses landscape: Creating, acting and organizing to improve customer’s profits; Björn Axelsson & Mats Vilgon
5. Organizing for sales in VUCA contexts: The transformation process from products to solution sales; Ebba Laurin
6. Business maneuvering: A dynamic view of B2B selling processes; Lars-Johan Åge
7. Organizational balancing – an integrated view of sales management; Lars-Johan Åge
PART III: ORGANIZING INTERACTIONS WITH CUSTOMERS
8. The other side of the coin – on developments in procurement practices and their implications for sales; Björn Axelsson
9. Successful and value-creating interplay between buyer and seller: Organizing mutuality; Björn Axelsson
10. Potential business improvements when utilizing CRM tools – and challenges in making it happen; Dariusz Osowski
11. The next generation CRM tools: Bridging the gaps between sales needs and CRM tools architecture; Sarah Wikner
PART IV: ORGANIZING FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENDED CUSTOMER OFFERINGS
12. Outside in – to capture the in-betweens: Organizing the socio-technical embedding process of new technology; Min Tian
13. Creating and delivering sustainable customer solutions: On organizing capabilities in the era of servitization; Lei Huang
14. Marketing and sales in ambidextrous organizations: Organizational challenges from digitalization; Per Andersson, Ebba Laurin & Christopher Rosenqvist
PART V: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MARKETING ORGANIZING PROCESSES
15. Towards a conceptual model for analyzing marketing re-organization and transition processes; Per Andersson, Christopher Rosenqvist & Daniel Grenblad
16. Organizing marketing and sales in a networked business world; Per Andersson & Björn Axelsson
17. Brand orientation as method to inspire, change culture and lead the implementation of solutions business; Cecilia Cederlund
18. Future studies of marketing and sales organization; Per Andersson, Björn Axelsson & Christopher Rosenqvist