TY - JOUR
T1 - Renaissance of project marketing
T2 - Avenues for the utilisation of digital tools
AU - Toukola, Sebastian
AU - Ståhle, Matias
AU - Mahlamäki, Tommi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by the Citizens as Pilots of Smart Cities (CaPs) research project (no. 95576 ) funded by NordForsk and by the ROBINS research project funded by Business Finland 2019–2022 (document numbers 7885/31/2018 and 7802/31/2018).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Project marketing differs from other business-to-business (B2B) marketing processes due to its uniqueness and complexity of offers, which in turn makes the management of project marketing challenging. Although the use of digital tools has received increased attention in research on other forms of B2B marketing, few previous studies have concentrated on the project marketing view. To fill this gap, we conducted a two-phase qualitative study considering explicit digital tools for the project supplier's marketing process. Based on the results of this study, we identify a list of 117 digital tools that can be used in project marketing, which we divide into 11 categories. As our main contribution, we offer insights into suitable tools that suppliers can use in each step of the project marketing process. This study contributes novel knowledge about digital project marketing by offering an understanding of digital tools and their use in the project marketing process.
AB - Project marketing differs from other business-to-business (B2B) marketing processes due to its uniqueness and complexity of offers, which in turn makes the management of project marketing challenging. Although the use of digital tools has received increased attention in research on other forms of B2B marketing, few previous studies have concentrated on the project marketing view. To fill this gap, we conducted a two-phase qualitative study considering explicit digital tools for the project supplier's marketing process. Based on the results of this study, we identify a list of 117 digital tools that can be used in project marketing, which we divide into 11 categories. As our main contribution, we offer insights into suitable tools that suppliers can use in each step of the project marketing process. This study contributes novel knowledge about digital project marketing by offering an understanding of digital tools and their use in the project marketing process.
KW - Digital marketing
KW - Digital tools
KW - Digitalisation in projects
KW - Project marketing
U2 - 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100091
DO - 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100091
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165681269
SN - 2666-7215
VL - 4
JO - Project Leadership and Society
JF - Project Leadership and Society
M1 - 100091
ER -