Entrepreneurial marketing: acknowledging the entrepreneur and customer-centric interrelationship

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptualisation of entrepreneurial marketing drawn from recent developments in literature and supported by case evidence from firms leveraging an approach to marketing that explicitly considers the entrepreneur/customer interrelationship. The paper develops a model that puts the entrepreneur and customers and their interrelationship as the organisational drivers that exist in a wider environment of an organisation that embraces marketing augmented by a collection of non-traditional opportunity focused marketing strategy and tactics. Propositions are offered to stimulate and guide subsequent research efforts.

Keywords:

• entrepreneurial marketing
• administrative marketing
• entrepreneur/customer interrelationship