Performance Measurement of Marketing Function Practices and Management Control Challenges

32 Pages Posted: 2 Jun 2009 Last revised: 30 Oct 2012

See all articles by Keyur B. Thaker

Keyur B. Thaker

Indian Institute of Management Indore

Date Written: June 1, 2009

Abstract

Assessing marketing performance is an increasingly important task for managers and various stakeholders in the competitive business environment. The performance measures in marketing arguably have following functions from management control perspective: (1) As tool for measuring performance of marketing management function; (2) Marketing performance measures as the objectives of the business; (3)Mechanism for motivation and control and (4) Tool for making marketing strategy decision and implementation. This paper reviews the research in the area of marketing performance measurement and the trends thereof in marketing performance measurement practices. Further it describes various measures of marketing performance, namely customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, brand equity, return on investment (ROI) on marketing and its limitation in fulfilling its function in the prevalent business circumstances. Some cases in Indian context are decorated along with the result of a survey on business performance measurement practices of 38 top-notch companies of India. This paper written from management control perspective concludes by discussing the current challenges and perspectives for marketing performance measurement.

Keywords: management control, business performance, measurement, marketing performance, controller, customer satisfaction, brand, customer loyalty

JEL Classification: M10

Suggested Citation

Thaker, Keyur B., Performance Measurement of Marketing Function Practices and Management Control Challenges (June 1, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1412629 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1412629

Keyur B. Thaker (Contact Author)

Indian Institute of Management Indore ( email )

Rau Pithampur Raod
Pigdember, Rau
Indore, Madhya Pradesh 453556
India
+917312439537 (Phone)