Product bundling strategies in Swedish markets: Links to business orientation and perceived effects on consumer influence

Wappling, Anders, Strugnell, Chris and Farley, Heather (2010) Product bundling strategies in Swedish markets: Links to business orientation and perceived effects on consumer influence. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 34 (1). pp. 19-27. ISSN 1470-6423

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Abstract

Product bundling is an increasingly important marketing strategy within many industries, and consumer influence on companies’ ranges of product bundles is, thus, becoming an important issue. The aim of this study was to investigate product bundling strategies consumers are exposed to by some selected companies in the Swedish automobile, travel and banking industries. Bundling strategies were considered in relation to business orientation as well as the consumer’s potential to influence the product bundles offered by these companies. Fourteen qualitative telephone interviews were conducted with senior representatives from the three sectors. Interview respondents were selected in cooperation with their respective companies. Results underwent interpretative analysis, and the findings indicated that business orientation is linked to product bundling techniques and to the type of customer influence on product bundling. Consumers were exposed to mixed and complementary bundling strategies, and customers of companies that apply a market orientation were found to have greater opportunities to influence product bundles directly, whereas companies that apply a production-oriented approach were less able to respond to their customers’ wishes. Consumer influence on the product bundles of production-oriented companies was found to be of a more indirect nature.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Business orientation, consumer influence, marketing strategy, product bundling, Sweden
Subjects:	N500 Marketing
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	Anders Wappling
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2013 11:29
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 09:53
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11254

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